What the BP oil spill does not signal, however, is a change in direction.
Even as brown goo gushes from the Gulf 5,000 feet below the surface, and cleanup crews struggle to halt the slick from befouling beaches and shorebirds, companies are already developing the technologies to drill twice as deep off South America, Africa, and in the Gulf...
With the BP oil spill dominating conversation in Washington and among talking heads, the people of the Gulf Coast are working to make sure their voices are heard, too, using a common post-disaster technique: the road-side sign.
Source:
http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/06/21/road-signs-of-rage-against-bp-oil-spill.html
It was treated as an oddball twist in the otherwise wrenching saga of the BP oil spill when Kevin Costner stepped forward to promote a device he said could work wonders in containing the spill's damage.
But the gadget in question � an oil-separating centrifuge � marks a major breakthrough in spill cleanup technology.
"I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a BLACK president.
You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt where you can see the gun in his pants..."
In reporting on the BP oil spill, the media has at times taken
liberties in the use of unexplained technical terminology.
In the
interests of helping readers more easily follow the environmental
disaster still unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, here is a basic
glossary of oil spill-related terms.
Source:
http://theweek.com/article/index/203275/how-to-speak-bp-oil-spill-a-glossary
