MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Chevron halts drilling off the coast of Brazil following an oil-spill
Oil giant Chevron halted drilling of a well off the coast of Brazil as it looks into the possible causes of an oil spill in the region. Chevron said in a statement e-mailed that an oil sheen had appeared on the surface of the ocean near the Frade project it operates, which it attributed to oil seeps in the area. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThey will not be happy until the seas are completely dead. Thanks to Chevron.... and BP, and Shell, and Exxon...
Nov 14th, 2011 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0How muddle-headed you are!
Nov 14th, 2011 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you think the intent of the oil extraction companies is to kill off the world's oceans, then you know little about the appropriate policies, controls, legislations, contracts, practices, proceedures, and penalties for contaminations.
The 'parent company' Chevron, had one of the best records in the world for ethical and environmentally sensitive extraction and transportation. This seepage from the extraction area of Chevron Brasil may be natural or induced - whichever, Chevron have stopped operations pending a full survey in conjunction with the Brasilian Government's appropriate agency. This strikes me as entirely right and proper.
oh dear, oh dear,
Nov 14th, 2011 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we hope no argie bloggers read this,
they love nothing better than to condem others for oil leaks,
dear oh dear, lol.
Geoff, all of your “appropriate policies, controls, legislations, contracts, practices, proceedures, and penalties for contaminations” has not stopped the oil companies from causing great damage to oceans and seas around the world. The Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska still affects the fishing communities around Prince William Sound 22+ years after the spill. You are a true believer in technology, and that is a very dangerous belief system.
Nov 14th, 2011 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, ry,
Nov 14th, 2011 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am a man who understands man's place in the ecosystem. A place where his actions perpetually change the world that would have existed in his absence.
Billions of a pyramid-topping large mammal species , by their very nature must change nature.
Our checks and balances are imperfect, as we humans are imperfect, but we try to do the best we can.
When oil is located on land it may pollute locally, down streams, and down wind. And throughout my and your ecosystem where we both are end-users.
When oil is located in the sea, it may pollute according to its dispersion coefficient, in an ever more dispersed and diluted fashion, over great areas.
Does life become exterminated over these great areas? No.
The dilution-mortality curve applies, and different species are differentially affected.
Can it be bad? Yes, like in the Torrey Canyon and the Exxon Valdiz cases.
Can it be less bad? Yes, like in the BP Bay of Mexico - where a lot of lawyers made an industry out of compensations, both true and false, and this Offshore Brasil case.
Are *you and me* going to stop wanting oil because of the inherent risks attached to its winning?
Not a snowball's chance in hell.
Sorry Geoff, I'm not with you at all. The oceans are teetering on the brink from over fishing, agriculture runoff, Fukushima (and other) nuclear waste, sewage, and plastics. There are over 95,000 square miles of dead zones, and they are increasing. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (90% plastics) is twice the size of Texas, and growing. The large fish stocks have been depleted by 90% since 1950.
Nov 15th, 2011 - 01:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are living in the old paradigm of boundless oceans that can endlessly take our wastes and which will endlessly provide protein for us. Like I said, you have embraced a very dangerous mindset.
Unfortunately our beautiful World is already well and truly over populated.
Nov 18th, 2011 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hi, Ry,
Nov 18th, 2011 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wrote you a long and closely argued reply . . . and then lost it when I forgot to open another page when searching for a ref.
I spent a lifetime in this professional field, with some (small) success at 'holding back the tide'. I trained a generation of graduates to 'carry the baton on the next leg', and I retired to reflect on The Tragedy of the Commons.
Population growth and industrial process expansion, combined with human nature . . . . it reminds me of the allegory of the frog and the scorpion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
- it is in our nature.
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