“Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”
June 8th, 2010Via: The Atlantic:
A prominent Houston attorney with a long record of winning settlements from oil companies says he has new evidence suggesting that the Deepwater Horizon’s top managers knew of problems with the rig before it exploded last month, causing the worst oil spill in US history. Tony Buzbee, a lawyer representing 15 rig workers and dozens of shrimpers, seafood restaurants, and dock workers, says he has obtained a three-page signed statement from a crew member on the boat that rescued the burning rig’s workers. The sailor, who Buzbee refuses to name for fear of costing him his job, was on the ship’s bridge when Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell, a top employee of rig owner Transocean, was speaking with someone in Houston via satellite phone. Buzbee told Mother Jones that, according to this witness account, Harrell was screaming, “Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”
Whoever was on the other end of the line was apparently trying to calm Harrell down. “I am fucking calm,” he went on, according to Buzbee. “You realize the rig is burning?”
At that point, the boat’s captain asked Harrell to leave the bridge. It wasn’t clear whether Harrell had been talking to Transocean, BP, or someone else.
On Friday a spokesman for Transocean said he couldn’t confirm or deny whether the conversation took place. He was unable to make Harrell available for an interview.
Yes, somewhere down the line (if we are even able to communicate about it) we’ll FINALLY get that the reason Goldman Sachs sold forty per cent of their shares, and that BP b’stard sold all of their shares to pay off their freakin’ mansion is that these people knew the gig in the Gulf was a disaster waiting to happen.
I have no problem with people trading or selling shares or investments on gut reactions. That’s when I do so too. But these guys (don’t know of any women in the mix) are just blatant insider trading dudes, and they ought to go down. And hard.
Its like whoever shorted United before 9/11 – except we now know who done it.For all the good that information might do to “fix this.”
Swam in he Gulf of Mexico this past weekend. Had made a deal with my sisters that we would go there and say goodbye. The beach was loaded with like minded citizens of the world. The water was perfect.
I am glad I got to swim in those waters before the oil fouls all. Have an extreme sunburn.
All the better for vitamin d3.
This event is not the end of my world; I’ve been preparing for the end of oil for years now. I think the Gulf Spill is the all too blantant message to some – but its the end of the world as we know it has just been introduced into mainstream consciousness.
It’s one gallon of oil at a time. Drip, drip, drip. Peoples heads, I hope, are going to start to explode when they finally “get” the thing about oil.
Need a new bumper sticker.
Instead of how many gallons per Iraqi,
its got to be something about what price here in the U.S. are we willing to pay? To continue this nightmare. Find a bus, a bike, something. AT LEAST BOYCOTT BP GAS STATIONS FER CRYING OUT LOUD.