Thursday, September 2, 2010

Deju vu : Oil platform explodes, catches fire off La. coast

UPDATE BELOW 

Once again an offshore oil platform exploded in the Gulf Of Mexico. As long as they continue to drill offshore, we can expect accidents like this to happen fairly often.

The oil industry has no compunctions about destroying our environment. If they did they wouldn’t even drill offshore. I wonder what the tipping point is going to be for the American people?

When will they rise up and defy Big Oil? When will we be free from this destructive destiny?  

Coast Guard responds to reports of people in water

An offshore oil platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay. All 13 workers were rescued from the water, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The explosion aboard the platform, owned by Mariner Energy, occurred west of the site of the April offshore rig blast that caused the massive BP oil spill.”

UPDATE: 11:30 PST

“A mile-long sheen is now visible where an offshore petroleum platform exploded and burned Thursday off Louisiana, the Coast Guard said.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said the sheen, about 100 feet wide, was spotted near the platform owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy Inc.

No one was killed in the explosion, which was spotted by a commercial helicopter flying over the site Thursday morning.

All 13 people aboard the rig were found floating in the water in survival gear, Coast Guard spokesman Chief Petty Officer John Edwards said.”

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