Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine

I miss Argento!

Oversight lacking as companies abandon Gulf of Mexico oil and gas pipelines, federal audit finds

Energy regulators are allowing oil and gas companies to abandon pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico at an increasing rate and with little oversight while failing to monitor the integrity of almost 9,000 miles of active pipelines, a federal audit has found.

In a report to Congress, the U.S. Government Accountability Office determined that federal regulators rarely conduct or require underwater pipeline inspections.

Instead, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which regulates the offshore industry, relies on reports of sheens or oily bubbles on the water’s surface and pipeline pressure sensors to detect leaks. Both methods are considered unreliable even by BSEE officials, who noted that subsea currents diffuse and spread leaked oil and gas, especially in deep water where most oil and gas production occurs, “thereby making any observed (oil or gas) difficult, if not impossible, to associate with a specific pipeline,” the GAO report said.


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Hi DMG

Me too

lol...it's baaaaack

Another update on environmental hazards and hidden dangers in the Gulf Of Mexico???!!!!!

this one is only 4 hours old!! posted today, April 26, 2021!!!






ARTICLE HEADLINE, Direct Quote!!

"There are massive chemical dumps in the Gulf we know almost nothing about
In the 1970s, the EPA allowed chemical companies to dump toxic waste into the deep sea. Now, oil giants are drilling right on top of it."


And by the way.... this guy McReery is a frikkin' hero!!! he would fit in here!!

Article text:

Charles McCreery was a few months into a new job as an oceanographer and water quality expert at the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management when he first learned of the dumping ground. It was 2014, and he was tasked with reviewing oil giant Shell’s exploration plans in an offshore leasing area known as Mississippi Canyon, in the north-central Gulf of Mexico. Deep in the document, he came across the company’s internal policy for steering clear of toxic waste barrels, and what to do should their operations puncture or disturb one.

“The content, and its toxicity, of each individual barrel is not known,” the Shell document reads. “Within the area there are/could be many hundreds of waste barrels. Many of the barrels may have released their contents over time.”

Seventy miles off the coast of Louisiana, among a maze of drilling platforms and seafloor pipelines, thousands of 55-gallon drums containing hazardous industrial chemicals litter a vast, dark swath of the ocean floor. They’ve been sitting there for nearly 50 years.


The ocean dump would come to consume McCreery, who had worked as a geologist for Gulf Oil Co. and Chevron in the mid-1980s and for more than two decades as an environmental consultant specializing in hazardous waste remediation. He submitted public records requests to obtain EPA-issued disposal permits. He combed through company shipping logs and any government documents he could get his hands on.

McCreery wanted to know why fossil fuel exploration and extraction was being allowed on top of a field of hazardous waste and why the EPA had signed off on the dumping in the first place. More than that, he wanted to know the long-term environmental impacts, and the extent to which the federal government is studying and regulating the site — if at all.

In exchanges with HuffPost, the EPA — the agency responsible for monitoring designated offshore dumping grounds — could not point to any evidence that it kept track of the barrel field beyond the 1970s or has any understanding of the lingering effects.

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so how come France isn't mad at us if we sank one of their subs?

Oh look! A newbie. Welcome newbie, and look at the date of the very first post....

Core topics of this thread ^^

i for one am not new. I need a synopsis. Where's Krispy

i for one am not new. I need a synopsis. Where's Krispy

Were there any survivors?

No one was spared, not even the children...

No one was spared, not even the children...

Me Tell U.... it’s been a weird year.

Boy that's for sure!

France must be toopid to keep building subs so we can sink'um
1763 pages.
Bruce will get stuck in one when he smells blood and orders fish tonight

That can't be right. The local paper our Daily Press had an article that said that the French Navy was doing work alongside the US Navy. The French were training along side the US soldiers in 2016 as well. I have to go I'm starting to get dizzy. I hope that is an error.

I always check this thread when I see it.. you knew know what good stuff will be in it.. I have been around since it was started.

that would be almost 11 years ago...

THOSE DAMN FROGS!!!