tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post6410226836980917864..comments2023-05-15T07:11:30.874+02:00Comments on Leherensuge: Expert who denounced BP found deadMajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-58217129869357376752010-08-12T14:04:04.800+02:002010-08-12T14:04:04.800+02:00Yes, I think so too. Just that he's dead now.....Yes, I think so too. Just that he's dead now... in strange circumstances.<br /><br />Btw, did you read the update: confirmed that 3 BP workers have died in incidents in the last months, at least one in circumstances very similar to those of Simmons: heart attack and drowning.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-5438434407198190892010-08-12T11:56:02.484+02:002010-08-12T11:56:02.484+02:00I agree, for the most part.
The problem with usin...I agree, for the most part.<br /><br />The problem with using a nuclear device was that it completely ignored geological conditions at the well site. It was not a matter of opinion or corporate or anti-corporate ideology, but a matter of demonstrable objective reality.<br /><br />Simmons chose, or felt compelled, to suggest a course of action that was based on some other reality and I find that most troubling.Va_Highlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04671547664669092756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-53610084770325924692010-08-11T13:15:13.825+02:002010-08-11T13:15:13.825+02:00I am also of the opinion that resorting to a nucle...I am also of the opinion that resorting to a nuclear device would be absurd. Even if explosives would be a solution (and not cause an even worse spill), conventional explosives can do everything a nuke can... without the radioactivity. <br /><br />But, regardless, he was pointing fingers and arguing since the very beginning that BP was hiding critical info and causing aggravated damage, with government complicity (conscious or not). The death is most suspicious in any case and may be a vengeance or even sign that he had achieved some further info. <br /><br />Of course, it may be a real accident but someone posted at Alexander Higgins' comments section that three BP workers have died in similar circumstances. I have not been able so far to confirm this last point but it seems clear from other behaviors (like sending workers out to the poisonous sea without proper equipment, running cleanup work as a nazi camp, openly saying that they would fight all compensation claims, forcing people to renounce to further claims if they want to get a compensation, hiding info, etc.) that they are ready to do anything. <br /><br />I doubt he was any sort of "opportunist": he was wealthy and retired and would have been better off keeping his mouth shut. What he said, regardless of whether I agree or not, was said because he believed in it, no doubt.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-53789272957867305132010-08-11T12:57:01.869+02:002010-08-11T12:57:01.869+02:00The idea of using a nuclear detonation to close th...The idea of using a nuclear detonation to close the Deepwater Horizon oil well was bat-shit insane. No marginally well-informed person could have advocated such a thing. The most likely outcome would have been to render the oil leak unstoppable. The chances of achieving some other outcome were essentially non-existent. The reasons were obvious to anyone that bothered to inform themselves.<br /><br />A man that advocates such a reckless course of action might be lauded for his opportunism, or admired for his skillful manipulation of people even less informed than he, but he is no expert.Va_Highlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04671547664669092756noreply@blogger.com