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When you go looking into the root of the Gulf oil spill disaster, finding Halliburton near the source isn't a surprise.

Fishermen Lance Melerine and David Hebert in the Gulf of Mexico, 05/01/10. (photo: Carolyn Cole/LA Times)

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+11 # Guest 2010-05-03 00:37

I wonder if Dick Cheney, former CEO of Halliburton, would like to make a statement about his favorite no-bid corporation?

+8 # Guest 2010-05-03 00:52

When the first oil rigs were built, a forgotten seer said "Buried under thousands of centuries,oil sucked from earth will be a curse upon the living."
How true! Its carcinogenic, mutagenic pollution and ubiquitous products account for accelerating extinctions.

+8 # Guest 2010-05-03 04:56

Would I trust Halliburton? WEll! Let's see they moved their head office off shore WHY? They sold sensitive material to Iran during the American Blockaide (Through a Canadian source who was later prisoned in America)
Chenny would I trust him? Well! Again lets see I would say about as far as I could throw the Ass... on a sheet of ice.
Halliburton NO..... NEVER......

0 # Guest 2010-05-03 07:53

And Obama says we need to drill offshore , but do it more responsibly. What a crock. He promised us a Green Energy economy and what has he done? He touts Coal, Nuclear, and Offshore Drilling (but he wants it done "responsibly"). Ha! He is just another houseboy for the corporatocracy. He has not accomplished anything in the form he promised, but has renegged on virtually everything else. What a disappointment.

+3 # Guest 2010-05-03 11:37

Of course this cementing process was a catalyst - they had just performed the procedure and it wasn't even dry. A 2007 study by the U.S. Minerals Management Service found that cementing was the single most-important factor in 18 of 39 well blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico over a 14-year period. Well - why are they utilizing a failed procedure?
Halliburton has been accused of performing a poor cement job in the case of a major blowout in the Timor Sea off Australia last August. Halliburton states it originated oilfield cementing and leads the world in effective, efficient delivery of zonal isolation and engineering for the life of the well, conducting thousands of successful well-cementing jobs each year. Are there that many wells out there???? It is worrisome that all fail safes failed. Where is the oversight? Why is this the only option? It's almost like a conspiracy of grandest proportions, but nobody's talking about it.

+3 # Guest 2010-05-03 13:44

Which happened first? The blowout? or the explosion on the surface? If the surface fire and explosion led to the blowout, why isn't there any news of an investigation to determine the cause of that? If the other way round, how did the blow out at that depth lead to a fire and explosion on the surface? I'm still not clear what even happened and it seems as though BP isn't being very forthcoming.

+1 # Guest 2010-05-03 17:33

What do you expect from the Anglo Iranian Oil Company? They have caused problems for all of us since the 1950.

+3 # Guest 2010-05-03 20:57

Is anybody still buying BP fuel or using their "convenience" stores? If the public were to cut off business until the mess was cleaned up, they just might hurry a bit.

0 # Guest 2010-05-09 16:10

The Gulf spill is a perfect adjunct to the Wall Street thievery. All of the thieves seem impervious to justice. Their enormous riches enable them to control and/or buy off everything including the mainstream press.

Fasten your seatbelts.

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