Bayou Farewell and the tragic oil spill
Posted by Dan on 21 May 2010 | Tagged as: Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC
Prior to the tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the average American had no idea of the scale and scope of offshore drilling operations. In fact even after the spill, the sheer scale of the ongoing drilling is just hard to fathom. However, the final chapter of Mike Tidwell’s 2003 book Bayou Farewell does an excellent job of tackling this task, helping the reader visualize a world in which oil rigs are so numerous that they form constellations to navigate by and need to be constantly fed 24/7/365 by a small army of supply boats. The final chapter of Bayou Farewell can be found HERE, for quicker reading the most relevant passages have been highlighted. It is really an eye opener, especially in light of the tragic spill and the possibility of drilling off the coast of Virginia.
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on 03 Jun 2010 at 12:15 pm 1.CCAN director tours oil disaster: video, photos, words | CCAN Blog said …
[...] to permanently eliminate human error and equipment failure through regulation. As long as we have thousands and thousands of drilling rigs off our shores, there will be another [...]
on 25 Jun 2010 at 10:19 am 2.Lady Gaga and Mike Tidwell make CNN’s list of intriguing people | CCAN Blog said …
[...] You can read the final chapter of Bayou Farewell, which discusses the size and scope of the drilling operation in Louisiana, on our blog. [...]