Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Because the leaks are a mile or more below the surface, and the plume of oil is too widely dispersed by the time it reaches the surface for more than small portions of it to be set alight, maybe too much so even for a given burn site to be continuously supplied with oil and continue to combust. Also perhaps because there was still hope of rescuing survivors if the burning portion of the rig could be extinguished. ?howard On Apr 30, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Greg Lorenzo wrote: > > imagist3 at mac.com writes: >> >> <http://www.truthout.org/whistlelower-bps-other-offshore-drilling- >> project-gulf-vulnerable-catastrophe59027> > > > What I'd like to know is: What idiot decided to put out the rig fire > thereby eliminating a controllable burn of 5,000 bbls/day into an > environmental disaster?