So last week the massive oil spill was the worst rig explosion in decades that is continuing to spread. A lot of questions are being asked about the safety procedures and environmental response plans of BP and Transocean (contractor drilling the well). According to the Huffington Post reportedly said that BP and Transocean and tons of other people that work in the oil industry have said to oppose new safety regulations that was proposed last year by a federal agency that oversees offshore drilling. Now new regulations that the industry has been attacked on with tons of letters sent to the agency showing how many accidents have happened due to rigs in the past five years. One of the letters sent to the agency was that a lawsuit was filed by a wife of one of the 11 oil workers saying that the companies violated "numerous statutes and regulations" that was issued by the federal agencies. Now members of congress are getting involved and they are demanding answers from the agencies and companies also the administration officials have also started to investigate the incident. The investigation is still going on and until it is complete how are we suppose to know if this "rule" could of prevented this whole oil spill. But if the investigation goes all the way through hopefully it will make oil rig operations safer.
*Posted last week but didn't show up .. i know late sorry
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Part of the problem is how deep this drill went. While current technology is able to handle the maintenance of some drills currently in existence, this ship can drill down over 6 miles. When the drills are this far under water, excessive pressure and extreme temperatures inevitably put great stress on the drill. It seems rather stupid to me, honestly. Many people warned that the drill was going to break and that drilling this far down was a bad idea, but oil companies insist that nothing like this spill is going to happen. With extreme pressures and temperatures, it seems pretty inevitable to be that something is going to break and something bad is going to happen. Furthermore, because of the depth of the water in which the spill occurred, robots trying to clean up the mess are hard to use because of currents and various other factors. The problem occurred to far down for any chance of direct human intervention, so there goes that possibility. It just seems like such a stupid, and avoidable, mistake to make.
Another problem is containing the spill. The company recently tried using a dome that sucked up some oil, temporarily slowing down the oil flow. Unfortunately, ice crystals have interfered with the flow, so scientists now have to solve this dome issue and other, more efficient solutions to containing the spill
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