Oil sheen seen for miles off Galveston coast, spill from ‘inactive’ offshore drilling platform
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- A massive oil sheen is stretching for miles along the Galveston coast in the Gulf of Mexico.
The sheen is coming from an offshore drilling platform 12 miles from the sandy beaches of the Bolivar Peninsula, near Crystal Beach.
Reports of the spill were first posted to social media over the weekend.
We treat this planet as if we have a spare one.
Big facts powers that be don’t give A damn smh
Cosigning to a billionaire's pipe dream is foolish, Javier.
That will never happen in pur lifetime@javiergarza8626
We treat it more like a toilet
There are over 14,000 abandoned rigs in the gulf
Is that true??
@@Scott.16 Yup! 14,000 inactive or unpluggged wells
Greed
Can't swim in Galveston anymore. We're treating it like the ganges river in India
Crazy how it all work. They need all kind of requirement and paper to build but when its done drilling. Leave it and no requirement to clean up and dismantle.
"The only way it makes any difference is if it costs them money"
Wise words
They should have coordinates for every active and inactive rig and know who owns it. This free-for-all on the environment is ridiculous.
They do. Our liberal governments at their finest. If inactive, either the State or Federal government are most likely the owners, and as regulating agencies, they have always been the ones responsible. Governments want their royalties, but refuse to take action and instead try to sue bankrupt companies that don't exist any longer, delaying action for decades.
They do. Remember that the government sold the leases and received royalties from every well. They know where every single one is.
If anyone is blaming the state of Texas, just know our jurisdiction is only 3 miles off shore after that it’s federal.
Ya'll know there was just a hurricane there right? These rigs dont last forever and need maintenance.
not the gulf coast its the chemical coast ...
Someone at least needs to wrap it up to stop/slow the leak until its fixed or plugged. Just letting it leak until the owner is found is just plain stupid. Give me a boat and ill go fix it for free.
Bring a boat with a work boom on it.
Also several storage bladders, and hoses to fill them with Strap a catch basin on that pipe, plumbed to fill the bladders floating on surface. Add rubber aprons, below and above leak, to break the spray, and guide all the drips into the basin.
And stop the ongoing contamination.
Or possibly bust it open, much worse.
All those years of salt air, probably rusted AF.
FlexSeal!
So no one has some kind of sealant they can take out there in the meantime????
Flex seal it
def should not be any thing coling from an enactive platform someong did not shut it down right!!!
Cancer
Get some Flex Seal?
Please stop ruining the environment.
I love the implication that it’s “other” people and not yourself
@@Hotel_Chuck I'm very happy for you. Have a nice life.
To late!
@Hotel_Chuck The overwhelming majority of greenhouse gas emissions (around 90%) are caused by less than 100 corporations. Also, I doubt the guy you're replying to owns any derelict oil platforms. Try harder to think about what you say before embarrassing yourself.
@@BufordDuckworth But I don't feel embarrassed. Thanks for letting me know I'm embarrassed, I would never have known. And who the hell are you?
Seems like something even a basic plumber or city utility worker could fix quickly.
Even if it's only a temporary repair until they find the owner.
A waste of petroleum, but it should have been plugged and removed when production was stopped. Sounds like their needs to be an entity that knows about the ownership of every oil well and every platform in gulf waters and knows by report every month of production. Next they must have a decommissioning account with a lot of money in it and insurance.
What a surprise. texas is a living hell, wherein there are no regulations, and the few regulations are never enforced. This place is the heart of darkness. 1:19 now, let’s watch the jerk in the chair do nothing.
This not a big deal. *Cap the leak and move on* . Nature will self clean itself. Waste is food for other micro organisms.
Regards -
There go those burdensome regulations and environmental laws, crushing American business again.
Go to Home Depot and get some Flex Seal, oh know lets just keep letting it leak so we have something to talk about, off shore drilling platform left to rust in a ocean and no one knows who operated it, what a joke.
should of been capped off if it was not functional! stop these private companies from damaging our resources! we ear fish, go boating, and enjoy those waters! I don't care about the drilling but lets do it to the standards that are on the books! follow the rules!
Here we go again with this ..
That’s criminal
Respectfully it’s a natural mineral
How is it possible for the owner to be unknown? Absolutely ridiculous.
Our Greatest down fall, is how we treat the Earth. "Evil Corp"
We banned it on land and pushed it offshore where you can't visibly see anything go wrong until it's too late.
I smoke more oil than my car uses.
This place is a trip .
Been leaking for a week? You don't say?
Hold these companies responsible.
Big companies drill the wells and operate them until the ROI isn’t good enough for them. Then they sell them to small operators who squeeze them for everything they’re worth without doing any meaningful maintenance on the facilities. Then when they are done, they just claim bankruptcy. That’s how the system works.
who will be cleaning it
It's been awhile since we had a good oil spill.
yea it's about time.
Who owns it? Find them and fine them. And no slap on the wrist fine either. Make it hurt or they won't change their behavior.
And our governor will do NOTHING!
@smileysouthtexas You’re upset cause he didn’t tuck you in before sleep. Anything else you want him to do maybe change your diaper.
@@nateez3898 In all fairness, Abbott is an establishment politician. As everyone knows, politicians rarely represent the people who elected them. They’re more concerned with playing the game and building their own wealth.
Yep, blame Abbott...
It’s 12 miles offshore that’s international waters our governor doesn’t have to do anything about it it’s probably owned by a non U.S. company
You can bet the operator won't be responsible...
Inactive. Like our govenor!
This is not our governors problem it’s 12 miles offshore that’s international waters go back to school and learn before you type
hammer a wooden plug in while u are there, geez
And folks are wondering why the whale attacked farther north east from this spill
Don't eat the Shrimp......
Just fix the damn thing for heavens sake and worry about the details later. A couple of wood splinters would fix it (driven into the leak), but nobody with common sense.
That’s why I drive my electric car charged with my solar panels. I was in the Navy and we would protect Saudi Arabian or tankers. I knew there had to be a better way. Electric cars are not perfect, but at least they use less resources.
OMG get some duct tape.
.....Welcome to TEXAS.......
Galveston has become an oil swamp because of this oil and gas industry.
I guess they didn’t learn from the BP spill
Why don't they plug it instead of just looking at it!!!!!
So,vote"drill,drill,drill?"...u get what u had bought? Where's the governor? Interview him?
Mmmm oil basted shrimp gumbo.
This why I try not to eat gulf coast shrimp 🦐
Cannot believe to let a decommissioned rig stay like that
From the sign at one time it was owned by Ocean Energy. I would start there.
They will wait until the whole thing breaks off and fills the Gulf before acting!
tax dollars to clean the rich failed moneymaker.
Some flex a seal will patch that right up.
We're doomed Houston.
Needs to be shut in and re weld the line pipe or repair it.
Probably an old Shell rig. They’re trying to go away from the oil and gas business and abandoning all their old rigs and washing their hands. They’ve done a lot of harm to the environment. Despicable.
Aw, a little Flex Tape will fix it right up.
Someone probably ran into it
Rich people problems
Go back out there with a roll of flex seal and fix it! Geesh!
wow, we don't know who to blame so wei will do nothing
Gas going up now 😅
Smh
Thanks, Abbott!
You have a tiny brain.
Not abbots fault google international waters geeeezzz you people are seriously uneducated
Fix it asap on hands on deck
Boooooo.
Get the hair balls..
Ready..
Everyone shave their head. For. . Qyick and easy.. clean up
its the cancer capital for a reason
That’s great for tourism go Texas
Oil reserve being dumped
Fix it.
Drill baby drill🗣️🔊🔊🔊
Flex seal it
Horrifying!