Le “oil spill” sur deux fronts

Le “oil spill” sur deux fronts

Actuellement, on trouve deux centres d’intérêt pour le développement de l’information à propos de la catastrophe de la station Deepwater Horizon du Golfe du Mexique.

• D’une part, un courant de spéculation, déjà mis en évidence par des déclarations de Bill Clinton le 30 juin 2010 sur les moyens radicaux de tenter de boucher la fuite de pétrole par une explosion sous-marine massive. Reuters publie une analyse importante sur l’extrême de cette hypothèse, qui est l’“option nucléaire”, le 2 juillet 2010. Elle est axée sur une interview du “Soviet psysicist veteran Viktor Mikhailov”, qui affirme que l’URSS a réussi, sous sa direction et alors qu’il était ministre, plusieurs opérations de cette sorte durant la période de la Guerre froide.

«His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP's oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

»“A nuclear explosion over the leak,” he says nonchalantly puffing a cigarette as he sits in a conference room at the Institute of Strategic Stability, where he is a director. “I don't know what BP is waiting for, they are wasting their time. Only about 10 kilotons of nuclear explosion capacity and the problem is solved.”

»A nuclear fix to the leaking well has been touted online and in the occasional newspaper op-ed for weeks now. Washington has repeatedly dismissed the idea and BP execs say they are not considering an explosion – nuclear or otherwise. But as a series of efforts to plug the 60,000 barrels of oil a day gushing from the sea floor have failed, talk of an extreme solution refuses to die…»

Après un long historique de ces diverses interventions, le rapport se termine par des interventions négatives et des mises en cause des affirmations de succès de Mikhailov. Cela conduit à une réaction curieuse de Mikailov, l’amenant à pondérer fortement ses affirmations initiales sur les actions entrepises en URSS, surtout dans leurs effets secondaires.

«Not everybody is so sanguine about the Soviet experience. Speaking on condition of anonymity, an expert from Russia's largest oil exporter Rosneft, urges the United States to ignore calls for the atomic option. “That would bring Chernobyl to America,” he says.

»Vladimir Chuprov from Greenpeace's Moscow office is even more insistent that BP not heed the advice of the veteran Soviet physicists. Chuprov disputes the veterans' accounts of the peaceful explosions and says several of the gas leaks reappeared later. “What was praised as a success and a breakthrough by the Soviet Union is in essence a lie,” he says. “I would recommend that the international community not listen to the Russians. Especially those of them that offer crazy ideas. Russians are keen on offering things, especially insane things.”

»Former Minister Mikhailov agrees that the USSR had to give up its program because of problems it presented. “I ended the program because I knew how worthless this all was,” he says with a sigh. “Radioactive material was still seeping through cracks in the ground and spreading into the air. It wasn't worth it.”

»“Still,” he says, momentarily hard to see through a cloud of smoke from his cigarettes, “I see no other solution for sealing leaks like the one in the Gulf of Mexico.”

»The problem, he goes on, is that “Americans just don't know enough about nuclear explosions to solve this problem ... But they should ask us – we have institutes, we have professionals who can help them solve this. Otherwise BP are just torturing the people and themselves.”»

• D’autre part, il y a l’intérêt de Hollywood et d’autres vedettes du monde de la communication, essentiellement des célébrités du show business fameuses pour leur engagement dans diverses affaires environnementales, vis-à-vis de la catastrophe du Golfe. Huffington.post publie le 2 juillet 2010 un résumé de ces interventions.

«As the Gulf crisis unfolds, many celebrities have been spurred to take action to raise money or propose solutions to the disaster. Kevin Costner's oil-water filtration system filters 600,000 gallons a day. James Cameron assembled a committee of twenty-eight specialists who met with the Environmental Protection Agency to compose a series of recommendations. He also offered the use of his private submersibles. Larry King's two hour Gulf Coast relief telethon raised $1.8 million and featured Sting, Cameron Diaz, Robert Redford, Ted Danson, Tim McGraw, Justin Bieber, and Jenny McCarthy. There is also a rapidly spreading rumor that Brad Pitt is developing a movie on the disaster.»

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