It was a..... U.S. Green Building
Council's Leadership in Energy
and environmental Design of the
HIGHEST Platinum level!!!!
(not really.... but folks followed the
orders from folks at the top... and
no one questioned their motives or
their deficiencies in their work ethics.)
Photo taken by a Department of Energy Contractor.
Wow, a manmade volcano and the spectacle of thousands of tons of CONCRETE melting, then artistic marbling of the borders of all that boringly clear blue Gulf water! That's entertainment - for the petro-profiteers.
ReplyDeleteOf course we had no excuse not to go full speed ahead on clean, free, energy after the advent of the Energy Crisis 30 years ago. It's all been about what fortunes can still be squeezed out of fossil fuels and the mad demon-dance of atom-splitting, and from the social manipulation of the allegedly irreplaceable need of these world-poisoners by the military-industrial complex profiteers.
British Petroleum is as big as it gets. Their hideous record of 'care' for Nature has long been available to everyone on the Internet. 'But we TRUSTED them! They PROMISED!' from the government whiners is worth as much those same words from parents who trusted their children to known sadists.
While we HAD a moratorium on offshore oil drilling, where was the IMAGINATION from those who wailed and moaned that we Absolutely Had To Have Offshore Drilling? What about realistic (as opposed to PLATFORMS) artificial islands, tapering up from the ocean floor, cratered at drill sites, trenched around pipelines, with safe harbor/docking facilities, planted with company villages and regional vegetation, and artificially reefed to collect silt, mangrove seeds, etc., to expand and help save coastlines from storms. The things could even be made, partly, by filling cofferdams with relatively finely-ground inorganic waste like mine slag, the silt that builds up in big dams, 'blitzcrete' and other hard-to-recycle trash, etc. Cleaned-up organic waste would be topsoil. These islands would be great places for wind, tidal and solar power.
But that would cost a lot of money. What if we used WARBUX instead, since 'national security' is always invoked as the trump necessity for drillbabydrill? Or what if we had the oil companies pay for it themselves without raising prices? Oh. I forgot how sufferin' POOR they are!!