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"The ocean is on fire” is one of those things that you can type and it’s true and yet it doesn’t feel believable

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Jul 2, 2021

Sobre el incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de México, en la Sonda de Campeche, a unos metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integral de Producción Ku Maloob Zaap) Tres barcos han apoyado para sofocar las llamas

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Brian Kahn

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Jul 2, 2021

The Gulf of Mexico is literally on fire because a pipeline ruptured

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Brian Kahn

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Jul 2, 2021

"The development was producing 726,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude at the moment of the incident”

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'Eye of fire' in Mexican waters snuffed out, says national oil company

A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula early on Friday has been extinguished, state oil company Pemex said, blaming a gas leak from an underwater pipeline for sparking the...

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I know this might sound controversial, but maybe extracting fossil fuels from the seafloor (or anywhere really) is a bad idea

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The company that set the Gulf of Mexico on fire has sucked the easiest-to-extract oil out of the seafloor, seen production fall off, and as a result, is failing financially with $114 billion in debt rigzone.com/news/wire/fire

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I don't even understand how this is scientifically possible!?

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It doesn't sound controversial so much as stupid.

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Methane pockets on the sea floor are way more prevalent than one would think. Extremely dangerous to people, as well as sea life

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So we should probably stop poking holes in the sea floor.

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My father is an oil wildcatter and has been for over 50 years. I have always said as we continue to suck the oil out of the ground that keeps the insides of the earth greased and the tectonic plates shifting freely. Well someday the earth will have something to say about it!