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Here is an interesting article about the 5 species most threatened by the oil spill. 1) bluefin tune 2) turtles 3) dolphins 4) brown pelicans 5) oysters

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/animals-threatened-gulf-coast-oil-spill/story?id=10996097

Capt Mike Singleterry · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2728

Here are a few more species threatened in some areas....

Gulf shrimpers
Oystermen
Charter boat Capt. and deckhands
Motel employees
Resturant owners and employees
etc...etc...etc....
Oh, and possibly the offshore drilling industry

Mike

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

at least Obama's union friends are making good money cleaning up the spill...

we don't need any volunteers or standard hourly labor... why would we do that when we could have a union come in and write a contract for labor at 4x the going rate!

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Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

halliburton made millions searching for WMD's?

no.. halliburton had the contract for shipping supplies and the associated logistics of those supplies.

The issue of Obama/EPA using strictly union labor is perfectly relevent to this thread.

you see, when you have thousands of people out of work, or near to being out of work, they should allow those people to be working on issues of the spill cleanup, if they wish to be. However, primarily only union labor is being allowed to perform much of the cleanup. I guess it's not as important to get people that actually know the area, or even know what they're doing, as much as it is to insure union labor is responsible for the cleanup....

Let's say you are right though... and Bush had it all set up (even though the typical story was that Cheney was pulling his strings, etc..)

Does that make this OK? having an environmental disaster on the beach, and sending thousands of people awy that want to help clean it up is OK, since "bush did something bad too"?

two wrongs make a right seems to be the mantra of the people wanting to shut down drilling in the gulf.

Bluffer · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:53 am Post subject:

Wow, I thought all the Bush haters left when we got some change you can believe in! Razz

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Fishbrains · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:42 am Post subject:

Anytime you get the feds involved you have to use the union or pay union scale, just the way it is.

What about the folks BP has hired to help with the clean up, are they union workers too or being paid union scale?

It is a shame that they ship folks in to do the clean up when the local folks need the work & would like getting union scale pay too.

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Fishbrains · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:48 am Post subject:

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What I'm wondering is WHY is the Obama admin and BP takiing so long at stopping the leak and pretty much ignoring any ideas from outside sources. For exmaple, I was listening to a radio talk show last night where a guy who works for the LA water services and has for yrs, said they stop major water mains/pipe leaks under pressure with a device that is a large tapered, pointed, steel piece that is lowered into the pipe and it is weighted at the other end. This piece of steel is rubber coated for a better seal and it doesn't matter if the leaking pipe is smooth or jagged at the cut. He said on dry land it takes them about 12 hrs to stop a major water blowout. He was wondering why something common like this was not being fabricated or tried in this BP case. Me too! It sounds pretty logical using something like this, kind of like an "easy-out" for removing boogered up screws/bolts. I heard another professor of physics say they should use a solid steel rod with hollow like tires around it and after insertion into the pipe, hydraulic fluid could be pumped in to expand the tires to seal off the oil flow. She tried to contact BP several times and just was hung up on. This oil blowout works perfectly for the Obama admin to stop the evil oil drilling offshore to pacify all his far left wacko greenies who were getting upset with him. Plus, after all presently the only states that are being damaged are the Repub led ones that were having good economies(unlike all the Dem led ones on the coasts who are bankrupt)and are in the fly-over states that didn't vote for him. This lack of effort seems very suspicious to me.

topdog15 · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:48 pm Post subject:

does anyone really believe that BP has not looked into every possible option to stop the release of oil? does the water services guy have experience w/ oil at a mile deep? what about the physics professor? the idea that BP wants this to continue any longer than the rest of us is simply absurd.
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