The US oil spill

[nevillew]

One word - Bhopal.

[thedarkprince]

How many on here didn't have a fucking clue about Bhopal until this all kicked off?  I was about 5 yrs old so had no clue about it until the recent "convictions".  Two years in jail and $2,200 fine each for anywhere between 15,000 and 25,000 deaths is just fucked up.

[Mexicano Rojo]

union carbide had a massive factory in swindon.

[Barry Scott]

I only heard about this for the first time on Saturday from a friend, as when i saw this thread i assumed it to be a tanker or something.

Fuck it's a huge disaster this one. Anyway, on another forum i frequent, i came across this. May or may not be some nutjob - I know fuck all about Oil Wells - but still worth a read as this bloke details how this Well is unstable and WILL collapse.

It's a long read by the way and doesn't make you feel this will get any better, not in our life times anyway.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593#comment-648967

[Doore]

Not taking the piss Barry, but how did this escape your notice all this time?  It's been on every news progamme on TV and radio and all over every newspaper for weeks.

[Barry Scott]

I avoid all news media like the plague, have done for years. I have no idea what goes on. I occasionally bump into thread titles on here and a few other places, but only a few times a year.