I got an email over the weekend from a Fox News reporter whose executive producer had seen the photos of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster and wanted to use them. After checking on copyright issues with Jimmy Haigh, a WUWT regular who got the photos to me, I agreed. Here’s Fox News today citing WUWT:
Thanks Jimmy, for making this possible.
Here’s the original slide show on WUWT, should anyone want to link to it.
The Gulf oil rig explosion – on the scene photos
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You know they’ve really hit the “big time” when they’re referenced on The Stu Hughes Show.
http://funnyfest.com/video/index.html
about two and a half minutes in.
Far be it for me to comment on how you choose to do business, but I think that the excellent basis upon which you run this site might be compromised if Fox News got to influence the policy.
Just remember, their execs think that bugging you in your own home is fair game.
I mean it. I know.
Interseting, again on last night’s The One SHow, environmentalist Mike Dilger did a little piece on oil slick issues with wildlife in light of this horrendous disaster. The interesting bit being that although “back in the studio” he emphasised the potential ecological disaster, he also emphasised the point that the “ecosystems” do recover from them! An own goal IMHO. I suspect there were a fair few slicks washing around the Atlantic, Arctic, & Pacific oceans during WWII, yet life seems to have recovered rather well.
nicely done!! AGAIN!
I’ve sent that link far and wide too, the best summation of the event possible. Much discussion on the hole on the helideck btw.
I hope that fox paid you guys … the source of those photos deserves a some new camera equipment!!!
peace
Water is a great concealer/destroyer of evidence, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster with all souls lost makes it doubly so. That said, I speculate the deed was premeditated by some group of enviro-fanatics willing to stop at nothing to make a point and illustrate their (enviro-facists in general) opposition of President Obama’s opening up of the American continental shelf to offshore drilling.
Great!
PS: When dealing with Giants, be careful where they step.
Re-focus time James, I think under consideration was the crowd that incessantly plays up a Central Banker/NWO/Fed world-wide ‘takeover’, the 9/11 ‘truther’, con-trail and the RFID-chip scare industries … but I could be wrong.
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WUWT is one of my top 3 ‘everyday’ destinations precisely because of the interesting nature of the articles–weather and climate and the B/S tax axis is relevant to my life. and the quality of the bloggers. The MSM talk like they are talking to 6 year olds. the questions too daft and sound lead-ins too shrill. Anyone growing up watching BBC1 or 2 knows whay I mean—you didn’t have to go to bed with Hives from all the sonic assaults from commercials and lead ins. Turning up the sound level for commercials should be illegal. In the UK-the majority of the commercials when I was growing up were humorous. We didn’t save it for one day called a super bowl. A we usually discussed the commercials at school the next day. MSM cover the basics and move on. Crime is not important to me. If they never reported another crime, see if I care. It’s easy to wonder down to the court house, or the police station than actually report on life so thats what you get……..nothing! There is space out there for an IQ channel, where, if you going to watch it, you better have a brain. WUWT……tempted????
It looks like the tree hugging politicians are using this as a fund raising tool.
I am impressed with the technology of engineers that design and build solutions. There are 30,000 offshore wells drilled and one accident creates more innovation in a short time than do 500 non incident drilling events.
Surprise … surprise … surprise …
… NOT
paullm says:
May 4, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Got a question: why does everyone refer to the Gulf Oil predicament as The Gulf Oil Spill?? Nothing has spilled! It appears to me that it should be designated as the Gulf/BP Oil LEAK – eh?
This crosses my mind, also. A ‘spill’ sounds a lot more melodramatic, seemingly evil-corporation made and inherently avoidable.
Reading the transcript of the interview with the rigger who was on the rig at the time (taking it at face value) it does seem that this is most certainly a freak incident.
As I said before, it was a fine, hard breaking news story you posted. You can be proud of yourselves for beating the msm yet again. I think the
GlassCarbon ceiling has been broken.Again, well done.
singularian says:
May 4, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Yup Jeff – t-shirts, toothbrushes, cups and the Anthony Watts action doll ( with moving parts and meteorological instruments) coming soon.
I’d like to take exception to this description. These are not called action “dolls” – rather they are action “figures.” They include miniature anemometer, Stevenson screen, and simulated blacktop siting. Batteries not included.