ROCKMAN wrote:Easy to be in favor of doing anything if you don't actually have to do it yourself. LOL
It is hard to get a man to see the truth when his livelihood depends on not seeing it.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
pstarr wrote:RM. 100 million barrels. Shell walked away from 20 billion barrels.
Anyway calling The Norwegian Sea 'arctic' waters is kind of stretching things a bit. Don't they grow bananas there? And lutfisk.
Cog wrote:I'm usually in favor of drilling everywhere, but drilling in the Arctic regions off shore gives me some pause. What happens if you have another Macondo situation occur just before the winter ice starts accumulating? You could potentially have oil flowing under the ice for the next six months and have no way to shut it off. Or is there some plan for that sort of thing that I am unaware of?
If I ran the govt side of the permitting process I would require a truly independent evaluation of the entire plan and a full time independent safety watch on board with full authority to immediately shut down operations at any point. Compared to the total cost to drill such a well the additional cost would be less then a small fraction of 1% so the expense would not be an issue.
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