Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100617:20:50:00
To glass? >> the research scientists on board the thomas jefferson last week pretty well proved there is no casing left in the well board. it blew out. with no casing the relief wells have a zero percent chance of working. >> why is that? >> explain to me as a journalist. why not having casing makes the relief well not work? >> casing is a rigid piece of half-inch steel. you can shove down enough cement to hopefully, but also entail ad 35,000 foot well going down and hitting a seven-inch target. without the casing, you have an open hole. there's nothing to pierce. it would be like putting soap...
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