Another Gulf Oil Rig Exploded

Posted on 09/02/2010 at 11:37 am by Bob Cesca

Unbelievable.

GRAND ISLE, LA (WAFB) – The Coast Guard is responding to another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dozens are reported injured.

According to the Coast Guard, it happened 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay.

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  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    It will be fine. More Corexit…the oil simply disappears.Probably enough of the stuff still in the water to gobble up whatever might spill.

  • Stucko

    Drill, baby, drill!

  • Sir Robin

    Free market! This is natural! We want freedom! The guvmint shouldn’t get involved!!!11 The free market will save the sea life and the fisherman! I promises!!11

  • http://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/ Jim in Michigan

    Only 39,999 more to go.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Dont worry, trillions of microbes are chomping at the bit to get a piece of the pollution pie.

  • alopecia

    Reuters via Yahoo! News:

    “They were doing some work at the time, but I’m not sure what. It was not drilling,” said Henry Cambre, a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Command Center in New Orleans. “We have had no reports of oil on the water.”

    Fingers crossed.

  • Alan Fors

    GRAND ISLE, La. — A mile-long sheen is now visible where an offshore petroleum platform exploded and burned Thursday off Louisiana, the Coast Guard said.Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said the sheen, about 100 feet wide, was spotted near the platform owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy Inc….

    …The platform is a fixed petroleum platform that was in production at the time of the fire.It was producing about 58,800 gallons of oil and 900,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The platform can store 4,200 gallons of oil….

    via MSNBC