Earth Activism

How we ever allow BP to continue doing business in our country will remain a mystery to me when I consider how inept they have been at managing not only the Deepwater Horizon but the spill which it's collapse has created.

Apparently certain alarms were disabled so that crew could sleep in piece and quiet without a 3am wakeup alarm and because of this the well was under protected at the time of the original explosion. Crews were not notified about a serious problem for quite some time and the end result was a late response to a problem that may well have been prevented had we used a little common sense and not been overly concerned with the sleeping habits of some employees being disturbed.

Now instead we have one of the largest man made disasters the world has ever faced and of course 11 of those employees are now dead. I would personally trade the entire staff of the Deepwater Horizon in exchange for all the marine wildlife lost to the tragedy but many of you will consider me heartless for saying so. I could care less about the human life and I am more worried about the defenseless animals which are now facing extinction for the sake of some profits and a little extra peace and quiet time.

As tragic and terrible as that may sound I would much rather have lost a few dozen easily replaceable humans for the irreplaceable loss of species we risk in the Gulf of Mexico. Am I the only one who cares enough about the animals to sacrifice a few BP employees?

Key rig alarm disabled before blast: rig worker (Reuters) | Yahoo! Green

An emergency alarm that could have warned workers aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico drilling rig was intentionally disabled, a rig engineer told U.S. investigators on Friday. Mike Williams, chief engineer technician aboard Swiss-based Transocean Ltd's rig, said the general alarm that could have detected the cloud of flammable methane gas that enveloped the rig's deck on April 20 was "inhibited." "They (rig managers) did not want people woke up at three o'clock in the morning from false alarms," Williams told a six-member federal board in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, Louisiana. Williams' appearance capped a week of testimony from company officials involved in the rig, which exploded on April 20 and sank two days later, killing 11 crewmen and sparking the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The Transocean-owned rig was drilling a well a mile beneath the Gulf under contract for London-based BP Plc..

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