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Another Oil Rig Explosion
- Posted on September 2, 2010 at 11:57am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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USA Today has the story:
An oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Louisiana, WDSU reports. Thirteen workers aboard the rig were reportedly thrown into the water, but have been accounted for. One person is reported injured.
More from The Hill.
UPDATE:
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs commented on the explosion during today’s press briefing. Via Politico:
The oil rig off the Louisiana coast that reported a fire is “not a deepwater facility” and “was not in active production,” Gibbs said. “We will continue to gather information as we respond,” he said, adding that he didn’t know if Obama, who was in a Situation Room meeting when the news broke, had been told.
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Comments (193)
USAFRetired
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:45pmWith my tinfoil hat firmly in place, I refuse to believe that this or the first one were accidents and the Administration will not now, or in the future call this terrorist attack. Remember the Administrations mantra – “Never let a crisis go to waste.” It just has to last long enough to sway the electorate.
Report Post »SPKnarr
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:10pmI have the same theory…and it’s looking less like a conspiracy!!
Report Post »jcatlanta
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 10:31pmAt some point, there is no reason to wait for a crisis. Why not enlist one of the many admistration greenies to informally “plant the idea” in the heads of one of their many radical enviro-fascists friends at ELF et al and just let them know about a vulnerable rig. (if the administration is doing a safety survey of all the rigs, wouldn’t they know the most vulnerable and the known problem areas)
Report Post »Then all the admistration needs to do is play Sgt. Shultz (I know nothing).
cjwoods
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 12:26amWho in this administration likes to blow things up?
Report Post »Hmm… (puts on tinfoil hat)
I’d like to know where Bill Ayres was. Kidding? I hope so…
jlee80644
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 6:58pmWhere are the swat teams? Maybe we should train them in oil drilling so there will be no delay in getting them to these disaster sites.
Report Post »HuskerVet
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:40pmDoes anyone really think there are no Eco-Terrorists out there? This was no “accident”. The guy at the Discovery Channel was no accident. The Leftists will do whatever necessary to shut down the oil industry in lieu of windmills and solar panels, environmentalism and the dud Chevy Volt.
Report Post »TgammaX
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:55pmThe timing of all this is curious as well. Right after the speech from the oval office and how employment was going to be the first priority.. This should be reason enough to set all of that aside for a while and get back to the business of cap and trade.
Report Post »wkuriger
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:38pmSo, is this Bush’s fault or can we actually – now – blame the Obama administration for this travisty?
Report Post »mrstentrekin
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:55pmNah, it will STILL be Bush’s fault. After all he and his family are big oil people.
Report Post »EntropysChild
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:38pmHmmmm, sounds like we might need better regulations or safeguards or something. What happened in the gulf CANNOT happen ever again.
JWChancey
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:36pmGlad everyone is alive…. and still a little suspicious ??
Report Post »bean691
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:32pmNo it doesn’t add up, not one bit. I was suspicious the first time, now I pretty much think everyone is.
Report Post »wkuriger
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:39pmMy thoughts, exactly.
Report Post »Shawn-GA
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:30pmPraise God all 13 workers are safe
Report Post »icesk8rgirl96
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:34pmExactly, hallelujah!
Report Post »OgerFrumMuskoger
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 10:59pmIt’s kind of hard to get hurt when you have a controlled explosion… But yes at least they are OK.
Report Post »abolishthefed
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:28pmCome on guys, its obvious whats going on here. Mother Earth is trying to tell us something, We need to all turn off our air conditioners, and move into mud huts or caves. That way when we go to the new shiney re-education college we will all be equally poor, so when big daddy government gives us some cheese we can say “isn’t this new democracy great!!” and all it costs was our liberty.
Report Post »HORAY FOR ECO-FASCIO-TERRORISM!
brazerica
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:46pmyou said it right, maybe add this to the mix… Brand yourself a Christian, and know what side your fighting for.
Report Post »Bocrockett
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:25pmEPA?
Report Post »Homebrewer
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 11:52pmOr ELF, maybe?
Report Post »capmobike
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:25pmA rig blew up. 2nd in nine months. Have never done it before. Doesn’t add up. Think about it.
Report Post »BigDog71
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:21pmRadical enviromentalists can carry a lot of the burden inre to drilling offshore and the risks involved. Too many laws/rules/regulations have been enacted to prevent the exploration and developement of resources in Alaska, Colorado and other protected lands. If an oil rig explosion occurs on land, resulting in an oil spill, it’s a lot easier to clean up and curtail damages to the enviroment.
Report Post »unconsumed
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:22pmLand rig accidents are also a lot easier to investigate and get evidence from.
Report Post »TomBurpee
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:20pmSo long to modern civilization. America’s going to look like Siberia Jr. when the environmentalists are done with this mess..
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:19pmSomething’s rotten in the state of Denmark.
Report Post »grandma of 9
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:18pmI just read an article that said this was a non-working rig. So hopefully no oil will spill.
Report Post »Sneeper
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:16pmReally? ANOTHER one? Gee, I wonder how THAT happened!
Report Post »stanleythemanly
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:16pmSort of suspicious that another rig blew up. Either it is from BP doing what they did on the other rig or else sabotage would be another guess. Is it not weird that 2 rigs blew in the matter of months and I have not heard of anything like this ever. I would guess it has been over 5 years since the last explosion.
Hmmmm, can you say Cap and Tax and also a immediate bad on drilling oil on the oceans and on land.
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:15pmHey wait a minute… Didn’t Ayers just retire? Maybe someone should find out where he was today. Seems right down his alley. Plant a bomb because you don’t agree with what is happening.
Report Post »faires
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 11:48amfreelancer___sooo right!
Report Post »d1carter
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:15pmThis is beginning to get a little suspicious…hmmmm
Report Post »brazerica
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:13pmDidnt the manifesto that beck showed us tell us about “trigger events” ???
Report Post »USA
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:12pmSound a little fishy to me. This keeps up and we will never be able to drill again
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:10pmA nearly perfect 40 year safety record and now two rigs explode within less than 9 months. Yeah, I’m going to buy that. They needed a reason to extend the drilling moratorium and now they have one. Imagine the odds of that one happening. The standard conspiracy theory thinking is starting to seem more like logical thinking with this crooked administration!
capmobike
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:22pmThe possibility of 2 rigs blowing up in 9 months (without help) is pretty much impossible.
Report Post »StupidWindmill
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:08pmDon’t even start please, for all we know this rig was probably not even an active rig.
Report Post »SeekerofTruth
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:26pmFree… I agree with you. I said that when the first rig blew and the oil spill occurred. After all the talk of trying to get a domestic source for the US, those that oppose it, IMO, will do anything to stop it. Misguided too!
Report Post »McBreezy
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 10:25pmI wonder, when were the rigs set up? I mean, maybe… just maybe… maybe it’s like a couple people buy a new car in the same year. Maybe it’s the same kind of car, maybe they have the same driving habits and put roughly the same mileage on the cars, and maybe by some crazy coincidence they have the same bad part or just wear out at the same pace and break down at nearly the same time. Do I believe it? Not really. But, is it possible? Maybe. Have we seen a real report on the cause of the problems for each to compare? Maybe someone should check…
Report Post »jlee80644
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:06pmAs we see what is unfolding, the masks coming off, the light of the Truth will obscure all else. Watching the news anymore is kind of like reading a thriller novel. It is so unbelievable that it seems like fiction. Remember, you can fill volumes with what you don’t hear about. Dig people dig.
Report Post »Philo Beddoe
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:10pmSomething really is starting to stink.
After years of no accidents and hourly condemnation of the big oil and coal industry, another rig blows up.
Report Post »Who thinks this company will move their rigs to Brazil?
brazerica
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:17pmDo you smell George Soros and PetroBras too??? I think so!
Report Post »EntropysChild
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:39pmHa, that‘s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
OutOfTheAether
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:38pmI was thinking along the same lines. Awfully suspicious that this should happen, given the Soros-PetroBras connection and all. Maybe having one crises wasn’t enough, given that the furor was beginning to die down a bit. IMO
brazerica
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:59pmactually, they needed another. According to their manifesto (the same one that beck showed us 2-3 months ago) there would be a “trigger event” followed up by smaller “trigger events”.
Report Post »Philo Beddoe
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:08pmSomething is starting to smell here.
After years of no accidents, and hourly condemnation of the dependency on coal and oil, another rig blows up.
Who thinks the rig owners will move to Brazil?
jeanpennie
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:04pmSeems awfully odd that two of these have occurred in the same location in such a short time span – too odd for coincidence, IMO
SWARTZDOT
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:24pmYeah, someone’s looking for all possible reasons to push Cap and Trade. Wait and see!
bhelmet
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:52pmI agree – something smells rotten here – I am not a conspiracy theorist – but I am not buying this. Mariner, the company who owned the rig, is merging with a subsidiary of Apache who just acquired that entire area from BP. Probably nothing, but I am scratching my head.
basskids
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:59pmYep, I thought that when the first one blew. Seems odd. Hasn’t been a rig explosion and significant oil leak in the Gulf for 20 years. Wouldn’t be shocked if it turns out to be Eco terrorists, but if it is, I’ll bet we never find out about it.
mtyme72
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:19pmYep, way too fishy that two of these rigs have exploded within a few months of each other, within the same year. How long have we had rigs in the Gulf with no problems? I do not buy for a second that these are just accidents. But, we will never know the truth while the lamestream media is reporting the story.
Report Post »bellaintl
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:50pmI totally agree.
Report Post »MichiganPatriot
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:14pmYep it is definately not an accident, let em call us conspiracy theorist if they like but at least we are not fooled by the globalist and they’re evil plan. The mainstream media does nothing , thank God for The Blaze and its new agenda…To show the World the Truth. Good Job Glen and all your staff for helping us thru the darkness!
Report Post »proud mom
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:17pmTrue statement!
Report Post »glassbeadlady
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 8:34pmHave to agree, the whole thing is starting kind of fishy, two rigs and natural gas line blow up and an oil leak into a river is Salt Lake City. Did the admin. just inspect the rigs and sent SWAT right after the Horizon rig blew……hummm fishy indeed.
Report Post »Homebrewer
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 8:50pmHmmm… What ever became of the eco-terrorist group known as the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)? They specialize in this kind of thing.
Report Post »jcatlanta
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 10:16pmI see a lot of people feel as I do. Statistics just don’t seem to support another random accident. The first time with BP’s safety track record is believable, but a second just a few months later and in the same area. Sorry, I don’t buy it.
Perhaps the BP accident was just greed and/or very bad judgment. (I make repair decisions every day designing aircraft repairs and have seem a lot more of the company/corporate “bean counters” try to influence my decisions unsuccessfully these days) When they changed the mud to save money, the pressure and the amount of natural gas combined to create a perfect storm.
In this new situation, my guess would be someone or a group of someone’s decided another rig event in the Gulf would accomplish what was not accomplished by Obozo’s unsuccessful drilling moratorium that was overturned twice by the courts.
Report Post »jlee80644
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 6:54pmNo serious accidents for decades and suddenly two within months. Could be coincidence I guess.
Report Post »Rhondako
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:02pmJeez, Are we ever going to be able to drill again???? Did Al Gore have another call for action?
Crawlin95
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:07pmWhile its sarcasm I’m sure, don’t start any rumors about Gore. It’s not right for them to do it to us, and its not right for us to do it to them. The guy yesterday was just a crazy nut job.
Mark Rickert
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:11pmGlenn was talking about terrorist TV shows on his radio program today – maybe Planet Green will have a companion show to “Whale Wars” called “Leftist Treehuggers Blow Up Oil Rigs”.
catfarr
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:16pmThe hostage taker was crazy AND he referred to a recent speech by Al Gore…so, it’s NOT starting a rumor.
thesandman
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:43pmLOL!!!
LorenzoFrezno
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:35pmWhere was Vladamir? Inquiring rascals want to know.
Wolfram
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:49pmLook into Mariner Energy.. Ironic that there are so many links to Enron and Goldman Sachs on their board and their corporate officers. Http://www.mariner-energy.com/officers.html what do the Bees know?
Wolfram
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:10pmOk, more creepiness … Look into the Mariner-Apache merger. The head of security for Apache is Alex C. De Alvarez. http://www.apachecorp.com/about_apache/management/Alex_c_de_Alvarez.aspx. Links to Enron, DHS, DOE, and CIA
Report Post »Scurvy Dog
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:56pmwe gotta get crude oil above $100 a barrel somehow….why not start close to home!
Report Post »Bad Company
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 9:54pmSounds like a scam.
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