I'm with Ellen! A simple name. The rig name would have been a good one.
BP actually owned the lease and contracted with others to drill it.
What a mess to say the least.
I remember the early 80's Extok (phonetic mostly) Mexican Oil company
blow out not much south
of Brownsville. It threw tar balls over the southern coast for years.
At least they floated in
and were under sand to step on anyway.
Martin
Ellen Bulger wrote:
> One thought, calling this the Gulf Oil Spill, is rather vague. It
> should be called the BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. And if it needs to
> be shorter, BP is two less letters than gulf.
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Frederick W. Schueler
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> Everyone,
>
> As we wait with horrid anticipation for the oil slick in the Gulf of
> Mexico to reach land, and wonder what species it will kill off, and
> which ones will flourish during the ecological succession of the
> recovery from this event, I suggest that everyone who's close
> enough to
> do so make reference collections of the shells (both micro and
> macro) on
> the shores now, and then go back to collect samples in the same places
> both when the oil is on shore, and at intervals in following years.
>
> I know many of you will already be planning to do this, but I also
> know
> that when we had our ice storm in 1998, we proved to be the only
> household in eastern Ontario that was out making measurements and
> gathering data on what was actually happening during the course of the
> storm, so it's easy to be mesmerized by the horror of a disaster and
> neglect documenting what the horror actually consisted of. See
> http://pinicola.ca/cldm.htm for some preachy advice if you're
> unsure of
> how to proceed.
>
> Data, gathered, analysed, and published, can make a real contribution
> towards regulations that regulate the kinds of activities that
> result in
> such man-made disasters.
>
> good luck to the Molluscs,
>
> fred.
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> Longterm ecological monitoring - http://fragileinheritance.org/
> Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
> http://www.doingnaturalhistory.com/
> http://quietcuratorialtime.blogspot.com/
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