Title: BREAKING: MARINER SAYS EXPLOSION ON OIL, GAS PRODUCTION PLATFORM IN GULF OF MEXICO Source:
BBG URL Source:http://www.bloomberg.com Published:Sep 2, 2010 Author:None Post Date:2010-09-02 11:32:57 by war Keywords:None Views:15537 Comments:29
GRAND ISLE, La. — The Coast Guard is responding to an explosion involving an offshore petroleum structure in the Gulf of Mexico.
Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company about 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route to the site, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast.
Ranel says it hasn't been determined whether the structure is a production platform or a drilling rig or whether workers were aboard. Ranel says smoke was reported but it is unclear whether the rig is still burning.
“You could actually feel it in your hair and stuff,” beach worker Matt Cole told Morning Edition. The crew also said, “The umbrellas… they were slippery. ‘You could rub your finger along the shaft of the aluminum pole on the umbrella and it was kind of an oily brown substance,’ the report continued. Scarrit told NPR, “I have a lot of questions… but I don’t even know how to ask them.”
Evac the Coast. Mississippi oysters 90% dead. Fish kills everywhere. Two whales wash up SE Florida.
We're talking fish kills(life/creature/planet kills actually) that now far exceed the 'background'.
"Of course, the ongoing extinction crisis of modern times goes far beyond the background extinction rate. Alroy noted that it could not only wipe out entire branches of evolutionary history, but may also change the ecosystems shaped by each species.
That means today's species matter for environments around the world, and so humans can't simply expect replacements from the diverse species of the future.
"If we lose all the reef builders, we may not get back the physical reefs for millions of years no matter how fast we get back all the species diversity in a simple sense," Alroy said."
Cascading Systems Failure now underway. Expect Big Oil to crash into it's own cesspool of oil.
