Two wells sprang leaks, June 4, in the Penglai 19-3 oil field in China’s Bohai Bay which is off the Yellow Sea on that nation’s northeast coast polluting 1,650 square miles of sea.
Yes, there were lots of dead fish.
So did you hear about it?
Of course not. It’s a Zen thing. If a fish dies in China and Casey Anthony is on trial does it make a sound?
The field is 51 percent owned by China National Offshore Oil Corp. and 49 percent owned by ConocoPhillips of Texas.
The Chinese government blamed ConocoPhillips for the disaster and fined it 200,000 yuan which equals $31,000.
This has upset many Chinese who have learned about the incident via Sina Weibo which is a Twitter-type service. They are pointing to the $4.7 billion coughed by BP for Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and want a similar smack given to ConocoPhillips.
One sympathizes until one remembers that, unlike in China, the government was not the majority owner of the operation in the Gulf.
Still, if ConocoPhillips finds itself on the hook one supposes they can ask the Obama Administration for a bail out. Obama gave the OK to a $2 billion loan to the Brazilian oil company Petrobras allowing them to make a $10 billion deal with the Chinese for drilling off the coast of Brazil.
Remember hearing about that one?
Of course not. It’s a Zen thing. If a foreign oil company gets a $2 billion U.S. government loan and a Democrat is president does it make a sound?
Enjoyed your sarcasm! Hopefully the Democrat won’t be President much longer.
If we are going to have oil spills, let’s have them in Alaska. We could use our own oil fields. Let’s have off shore drilling. Let’s have the Democrats honor Teddy Kennedy and put up a nuclear power plant on Cape Cod. We’ll call it the Kennedy-Kopechne Memorial Nuclear Power Station.
Just the thought brings tears to my eyes.