Holy Shite! Breaking - another rig explosion off Louisiana

[malaise]

One person injured - 13 people were on the rig - around 9.00am this morning

From GEM$NBC

[mikelgb]

1. O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

[n2doc]

9. More like "from sea to burning sea" n/t

[malaise]

13. DUzy

:D

[SugarShack]

25. I believe it's terrorism.....read what a military friend has to say below:

Korean sub let out NC seals who blew rig--one story--2nd--NC Korean seals on supply boat in rig assault and demolition--retaliation for sinking that SK boat which we then followed up with and EMP strike that took out Chinas main oil transmission line

[MountainLaurel]

2. From WWL-TV in New Orleans

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Coast-Guard-reporting-rig-explosion-south-of-Grand-Isle-102065593.html

[digitaln3rd]

3. Well, well.

Drill, baby, drill!

[BootinUp]

4. This is all Obama's fault. nt

better add a sarcasm tag, lol.


:sarcasm:

[depakid]

6. Well, if he hadn't adopted Republican offshore drilling policies in one his preemptive concessions

and instead, stayed true to progressive values he'd be looking prescient.

Instead of looking like the goat.

[Pirate Smile]

7. There is actually a dumbass in the comments at the local news links who says it is a Dem

conspiracy because Dems are "desperate".

Gawd, they are lunatics.

[Urban Prairie]

17. I have read online and have concluded that anything and everything

is being or will be blamed on the Obama administration by the mouth-breathing morans of the reich-wing nowadays. The worst of course, are those fundy extremist Christians who invoke Jesus and/or the Bible in all of their posts, believing that God is on their side, and that anyone and everyone else is the anti-American socialist spawn of the debbil.

[malaise]

23. You mean

'desparate'? Remember this is 'teabaggermoranglish' :rofl:

[malaise]

8. No just read the comments

from the link at #2
msmilazzo said on September 2, 2010 at 10:32 AM

I agree it's a conspiracy - the dems are desparate for something to boost their ratings before November.....

[Dappleganger]

5. Shut this down NOW.

Fuck everything else, they are killing our planet one explosion at a time!

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

[malaise]

11. Long time no see Uncle Joe

:hi:

[Uncle Joe]

26. I hear you and keep your head down from all those hurricanes.

:hi:

[Ganja Ninja]

12. Oh good someone to share the blame for all the damage BP did earlier.

[Bluerthanblue]

15. looks like this Mariner company has a lot of ex-Enron directors

:shrug:

[Blue Owl]

14. Fingers crossed the $500,000 valve is in place and holding...

:scared:

[MountainLaurel]

16. Further details

One person is missing after a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

It happened around 9 a.m., and as of 10:15 a.m., the rig was still burning, Chief Petty Officer John Edwards said. Rescue crews from New Orleans and Houston are responding.

snip

The rig is owned by Mariner Energy.

It's not yet clear whether the rig is a deepwater rig, similar to the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded on April 20.

According to Mariner Energy's website, the company does engage in deepwater drilling in the gulf, including "higher-risk, high-impact projects that have the potential to create substantial value for our stockholders."

Mariner Energy is headquartered in Houston and has an office in Lafayette, La.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/24854300/detail.html

[Ganja Ninja]

18. You don't suppose this is the first sign that the BP well has been leaking

into the rock strata?

[malaise]

20. I'm ignorant on those matters

I'll wait for the experts

[LiberalAndProud]

19. CNN reports that it was not an active well.

How does that happen?

[LisaL]

21. What does that even mean?

BP well wasn't in production either, would that mean BP well wasn't active?

[malaise]

24. The good news is that the workers actually had

the appropriate protective gear.

[VMI Dem]

22. Meh. Any oil that spills will disappear in a few days.