BP, Whats Next?

BP has payed 104 million dollars to residents along the Gulf Coast; however all these payouts do not change the damage done and the oil that continues to flow.

 

Alabama, Florida, Louisianna, and Mississippi all have response websites established to exchange information about the oil disaster and its far reaching impact. They are asking for any information of oil reaching the shores, wildlife, etc.

 

What is being done to stop this leak?

Flooding The Mississippi River?

Scientists want to flood the Mississippi River in hopes of stopping the oil. The scientists have concluded that powerful river flows kept oil from the BP/Gulf spill from invading large areas of wetlands. But as winter runoff diminished, so too did the river flow, and now oil is making a destructive invasion. The strong flow could be restored, however, by simply adjusting dams upstream that are diverting water out of the river bed.

Relief Wells?

Drilling crews were grinding ever deeper to build the relief wells that are the best hope of stopping the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The crew of Transocean Ltd.'s Development Driller II finished pouring cement to firm up a section of metal casing lining one of two relief wells. BP and government officials say the wells are the best option for cutting off the gusher that has spilled as much as 125 million gallons into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon exploded.

Nukes?

Government and private nuclear experts agreed that using a nuclear bomb would be not only risky technically, with unknown and possibly disastrous consequences from radiation, but also unwise geopolitically — it would violate arms treaties that the United States has signed and championed over the decades and do so at a time when President Obama is pushing for global nuclear disarmament.

 

While many people are worried about the political ramifications of all this; they are overlooking the human equation , as usual. Many people lost their incomes and food sources due to this tragedy. BP is throwing money at the situation; which only affords temporary comfort. Obama is throwing threats at BP and making things worse. The people are being threatened with arrest if they try to help with the cleanup.

 

My personal opinion is that BP needs to continue to stop the leak; The citizen’s should be allowed to do what is necessary to maintain their shore lines and Obama needs to concern himself with his next job and his next residence.