How to Avoid Blowing Up Your Oil Well
Via Susie, it’s very simple really:
DON’T FUCKING DRILL WHERE THE GOVERNMENT DUMPS UNEXPLODED MINES:
You learn the darnedest things on the internets. For example, I just found out that the Gulf of Mexico is the primary disposal site for unexploded military munitions – over 30 million pounds of bombs, projectiles and chemical ordnance.
And because records are spotty and incomplete, we don’t know exactly where these dumps are.
(Are you following me?)
Many of these bombs are unstable. Just about anything could detonate them – say, an oil rig that’s digging deeper than what owners noted on their permit application. So we’re leasing offshore drilling rights to oil companies IN A FRICKIN’ MINE FIELD. (You’ll notice this NY Times piece on the problems of offshore drilling doesn’t even mention it.)
That is some serious duh.
