What BP did was irresponsible. As my cousin, Margaret said, they need to stop endangering the environment and think about long term investments like taking care of our planet.

Baku is in Azerbaijan

Sigh. This is a big disappointment that these oil and gas folks are getting what they want.

Michael Hawk

BP should be out out of work , they are talking only about money losing,
but when it arrives to damage done to the planet , who care ?
this is reality , majority of companies doesn't take the planet subject seriously , all what they care about is money
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All of these places are in or near western countries. So they are not disasters. Jesus put gas in america's backyard (aka canada) and water is the middle of the country. For the rest: dont take our jobs you babykiller!!

Dear LARSP. You are correct in stating the oilsands (They are not tar, they are bitumen) are large--about 80% of the area of florida--not 100. If you however going to assert something as fact and claim an enormous disaster, however, you might want to tell the whole truth. The area of the Oilsands that is mineable using the methods you are discussing is only 1300 square miles, or approximately 1/45 of the area of florida, and the area of that currently under development is way under 5% of that. Furthermore the companies that are mining are required to restore the land to equivalant to its previous state. That has, in fact, happened with 22% of the land mined so far.
It should also pointed out that this area they are mining varies from surface deposits to a few meters of overburden covered by feskiw and Boreal forest (have you seen a boreal forest? Probably not) The point is if the Oil Sands had never started there you would't be vacationing atop them.

You forgot to mention the oilsands in Bakersfield California or how about LA City by itself. I bet you more people are killed in LA from pollution (not CO2 as it is not a pollutant) than anything you have described your your in correct assessment of the oilsand in North Alberta.

I personally think you're exaggerating the Ogallala Aquifer problem. The aquifer covers midwestern states, yes, but not the high output cash crop ones such as Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Our nations wheat might be out if that aquifer dried up, but not our corn and beans.

I personally think you're exaggerating the Ogallala Aquifer problem. The aquifer covers midwestern states, yes, but not the high output cash crop ones such as Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Our nations wheat might be out if that aquifer dried up, but not our corn and beans.

I really think the radio waves from the millions of cell phone and towers and other modern technologies are causing the bees to decline.

There is no evidence of increasing acidity of ocean water. There is no data to compare current numbers with. Assumes facts not present. No comprehensive numbers exist for values today and not even singular data points exist at all past the 1920s. The same could be said of salinity and other values with the exception of seal levels, which can be determined to have not risen in holocene times through comparison of geologic units.

Colony collapse disorder is easily explained in the U.S and northern Mexico. The "collapse" happened during periods of unseasonably cold weather in the western United States and Baja and in the eastern U.S. and Yucatan in 2006-7 for two weeks each. That was the first. It wiped out Africanized bee colonies all over that area. Then it has happened since then to different areas. Each had a "collapse". the reason is that the Africanized bee reached the U.S. in 1993 and has since then interbred with colonies in the southern tier of states, where the bee industry of the U.S. is located. These bees are shipped all over the nation. The Africanized bee and their hybrids cannot survive temperatures of freezing or below for even a matter of hours. The "collapse disorder" has not caused difficulty to non-commercial hives of the European honeybee in the NW, for example and on a typical day, one can see at least 7 types of native bee in the garden working away, ranging from 3" bumblebees to 1/4" "Sweat" bees. I live several miles in town-- out in the forest it is possible to see many other varieties. Instead of looking to the obvious culprit, though, "scientists" and econuts must look to the exotic in order to public papers, like cell phones or varoa and tracheal mites, all of which we have here in the NW.

Phoenix in the early 1950s was cold in the winter and hot or hot and humid in the summer. Then air conditioning was invented. With a way to cool and dry the air, people came in in droves. Soon the area had golf courses and swimmng pools, which evaporate water at a phenominal rate. Water, which is pumped out of the ground at a rate it could never be replaced is being used. This has gone on all over the country. People need to understand that if it wasn't growing there to begin with, it is because the climate doesn't suit it. I live in SE AZ and found out a few weeks ago that places I had seen where a depressed area had been created was because the water table was so close to the surface, that was how people irrigated. The well where I used to live was at 400 feet. Closer to the center of the valley it is 225. At the base of the mountains it is over 700. People have this attitude that as long as they get what they want, let the next generation take care of it. The chickens are coming home to roost. If we don't start conserving water ALL the time, one day we won't have any.

We brought Italian Honeybees to America. There are plenty of native pollinators we need to cater to. Plants that create lots of nectar are what native pollinators need. The Italian Honeybee has been cross-bred with African bees. The first cross is the best. After that, the honey production goes down. They are more aggressive than Italians or the natives. I wouldn't be surprised if inbreeding has created the problem.

Typiclly. you're wrong. I believe the bible states, God created heaven and earth, so Jesus has nothing to do with it. The Old Testiment, I belive doesn't even mentioned Jesus, just a Messiah.
Ain't no bible scholar, but I've read a bit.

MAJA007: Is that a joke? WTF are you talking about!

Your statement is very informative sir and yes those are indeed some harsh facts that everyone needs to know about.

Michael

I took your advice and Googled it...... Wow. Thanks.

Are you kidding me? Where do you find the ties between religion & oil spills?
Maybe it's just poor management or people with poor morales. Your theory is way flawed guy. The politics I could buy,but find a different forum to bash Christians..........
Funny though how you didn't mention the Muslims or Athiest,doing the same thing.
It's obvious your either agnostic(no spine) or athiest,so don't speak for the Christians,
we can speak for ourselves and your 100% wrong on it being because of religion or more perticually the Christians.

Scripture says we as Christians are to steward the Earth, because God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiple. Well, the fruitful is there, but the stewardship isn't. Too many people think the chickens will come hom to roost later. For some, yes; for others, the time is now. We in the world are in a interglacial period. That means in plain English, the climate is warming up and drying out. As this continues, more glaciers will melt, pouring more cold water into the oceans, which will in turn change the current ocean currents and plunge the world into another ice age.

The amount of water pumped out of the aquifers to grow crops so people can gorge themselves to the point of obesity is just mindboggling. I am putting everything on drip irrigation to save water. The trees are already mulched. I reuse, reduce, recycle and compost everything I get. According to the web, the average woman spends 25K on shoes in her life. I must have missed that class in school. I have a pair of boots I bought 21 years ago. I have another pair I bought because they were reheelable and resoleable. They are leather and will last for decades as long as I take care of them correctly.

People spend too much money on materialistic pursuits. We need to throttle back and start buying what we need when we need it, not what we want.

Methane won't explode like that. Not to get too technical but you can research that on line and it will tell you that the scientist that proposed that scenario was quickly rebuked. Drilling a very, VERY small hole in relation to the earth will not burst like a balloon or make magma come spewing out. It's a matter of great distances to that and it would physically (like in physics) NEVER happen. Geologist here.