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[Angel Of Death]

Black Metal and Moon Dwarves?

I'm in.

[Scoops Novel]

I'm amazed this happened in 2010. Then again, we''re only halfway through the year, but still.

[Aklyon]

Awkward thread revival.

[Scoops Novel]

Meh. I'm just wondering how things are today.

[Yoink]

I'm pretty good! Thanks for asking.

How about you?

[sluissa]

They're still sorting out who will get the money from BP and who will decide how it will be spent. There still a lot of question about the safety of Gulf seafood and while it's gotten a little better, you still see the occasional tar ball wash up on the beach. Supposedly if you dig deep enough there's also plenty of oil still left in the beach sand that they weren't allowed to pick up because it was too deep by the time they started cleaning the beaches. Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to have forgotten it for the most part. Except for the money and the occasional faded out bumper sticker, you just don't hear anyone talking about it anymore.

Sad, but people just don't seem to have a long term memory about these sort of things. You can go out to the beaches at night and see the lights from the offshore platforms... and I suppose, looking at it another way, they're out there, they're not going anywhere until the oil is gone... I guess the only thing some people can do is forget about them and hope for the best.

Granted, this area's economy, from Texas to Alabama and even parts of Florida are mired in the oil industry. A good half of the people I know either are, or have family in the oil industry. To some people, losing that would be worse than losing the tourism revenue from the beaches.

[MarcAFK]

I'm more concerned about the effect fukishima had on seafood, the majority of the oil suprisingly seems to be somewhat biodegradable, and it's a big ocean, for the most part i'm happy to just avoid florida lobsters .We used them in the restaurant i work in, i'm not too familiar with lobsters, but i'm pretty sure that horrid black gunk inside which is perfectly normal, SHOULDNT smell so hydrocarbony, aromatic, a bit sweet, somewhat spicy, like fresh napalm in the morning, the meat seems palatable enough though, but i wouldnt want to eat them in large quantities.
Radioactive tuna however? keep that shit as far away from me as possible.

[Duuvian]

ARISE:

Corporate malfeasance!

According to Marie, Lockman and GAP, BP's "astroturfing" efforts and use of "trolls" have been reported as pursuing users' personal information, then tracking and posting IP addresses of users, contacting their employers, threatening to contact family members, and using photos of critics' family members to create false Facebook profiles, and even threatening to affect the potential outcome of individual compensation claims against BP.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/11/bp-trolling-facebook-critics-20131112104514166549.html

This should be a front page story everywhere, really. Corporations should support society, not the other way around.

[Tack]

Whilst this is big news, it kind of warrants it's own thread, not necro-ing this such stuff. You could link back to this thread, but I feel a 'BP are bad guys' thread alone would do the job.

[MarcAFK]

I wouldn't entirely agree there, This news might affect their compensation claims which are a result of the deepwater horizons incident.
Also since I followed this thread in the past I appreciated being able to see related news so easily due to watching this thread.
However, you are correct, this was a significant necro and I would assume that such a necro would really only be appropiate if it came from the OP himself, which would be you actually, heh.
Anyhow, since we're on the subject, has anyone heard anything recently about the enviromental impact as observed at this point? I recall that predictions were made about the oil either sitting on the bottom of the ocean for a long time, or that perhaps that microbes would or were removing the oil at a significant rate.

[10ebbor10]

During a January 2013 flyover, former NASA physicist Bonny Schumaker noted a "dearth of marine life" in a radius 30 to 50 miles around the Macondo well. "Since the fall of 2011, now about 14 months, I see no turtles, few if any dolphins, few if any rays ... few sharks, few bait balls, all of the things we used to see," she commented. This may mean that the wildlife left the area in search of food. "I guess the Gulf of Mexico in these parts is a stinky, dead desert for its previous visitors," Schumaker told NBC news.

Three years after the oil spill, the residual effects were still apparent, with tar balls still found on the Mississippi coast, as well as an oil sheen along a coastal marsh, and erosion on an island in Barataria Bay sped up by the death of mangrove trees and marsh grass

So, well, a marine death zone and several coasts being affected.

[Sheb]

PTW