Oil Spill Live Feed
Hundreds of thousands of people have visited the web site with the Residence pick committee chaired by Massachusetts Representative Edward Markey to determine are live video with the oil gushing from the broken pipe that is developing the massive spill within the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman stated.
The are living feed was posted shortly just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, stated Eben Burnham-Snyder, a spokesman for the Home Pick Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The movie, transmitted from 5,000 feet beneath the sea’s surface, showed billowing clouds streaming upward from pipes about the sea floor this morning.
“This is a victory for transparency and open access to information, and for the ongoing efforts to understand the magnitude of this unfolding disaster and how best to solve it. Now the world can see what is happening 5,000 feet beneath the ocean floor, without having to wait hours before knowing what BP has either done or failed to do,” Markey said Thursday in a statement. “I am pleased to have been able to help secure this result for the public.”
Markey had asked BP earlier this week to release the feed.
BP issued a declaration this morning that it was also making the live video obtainable on its website, www.bp.com. It said it had currently been providing a reside feed to government agencies for two weeks.
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The next time an oil or nuclear energy executive tells you that modern technology has made things much safer nowadays, ask him if modern technology can overcome
1. human error
2. poor decision making
3. equipment failure
According to the chief engineer on the Deep Water Horizon all three factors played a part in causing the disaster.
SAFE TECHNOLOGY will not save us from disaster. If your seat belt isn’t working properly or you fail to wear your motorcycle helmet, you are courting disaster.
There are so many less enviornmentally damaging , cleaner and safer forms of energy like wind and solar that we need to turn our attention to.
There are a lot faster and easier ways to reduce our dependence on oil like conservation and improving fuel efficiency.
Punching a hole in the bottom of the ocean to suck up oil that has been trapped for millions of years under a protective bedrock is dangerous to man and our environment.
If we want energy independence for the next 1000 years we need to choose a energy source that is
1. cheap
2. abundant
3. environmentally safe and clean
4. universally available to everyone
Drilling at the bottom of the sea does not meet a single one of these criteria