Posted on 07/23/2008 2:14:11 PM PDT by The Wizard
Call me paranoid, but my generation has seen many nasty things and I wouldn't be surprized to find the "accidental" oil spill that happened just as McCain was about to go to a rig, as a democrat induced happening....
I would want to know who piloted the boats involved, were there any unions that back democrats in place, etc.....
These things have to be pointed out because the democrats don't care a whit about the country, just that money and power tit they suck on.....and they are capable of doing anything....anything
But I didn't post a vanity about it. ;)
I will rely on the better posters here to augment this with the actual news of the happening....
What oil spill?
Is there a story on the event you can point to?
Could you give the story for those of us who didn’t catch it? Please.
and vanity can be misused....this is opinion about events, not "do I look cool".....I am not a mirror person....I have been blessed, have many outlets for my creative side, but come here for the truth. and to share ideas
There was an oil spill on the Gulf? Have not heard anything about it.
I just heard about it on FOX news.....I am relying on the good posters for the “facts”
So, what oil spill? where at? How bad?
Do you mean the diesel spill on the Mississippi?
in the Mississippi River near by, I believe....but you know our media, they would have used it, and probably still will
yes.....
REPORT
The DEQ has sent out this notice concerning the major oil spill occurring on the Mississippi River in which 9980 barrels of oil were lost:
On July 23, at approximately 2 a.m., a collision between a ship and a barge occurred on the Mississippi River at mile marker 98, near Harahan, splitting the barge in half. The barge was carrying #6 fuel oil and lost all of its contents, estimated at 9980 barrels. The barge came to rest at mile marker 97 at the Crescent City Connection Bridge.
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Ya’welcome!
1 Brl=42 gallons
419160 gallons of oil. Yuck.
Hey, your going to have oil spills but we have the technology to clean up the spill site very quickly and be cleaner than it was before the spill. Thats why there should be no fear of drilling off shore. Also remember 60% of the oil in the oceans come from natural seepage from the sea floor.
This has nothing to do with offshore production.
1. It was fuel oil, not crude. Offshore crude is transported via pipeline in most all circumstances.
2. Mississippi river...not the gulf. Although intrepid little Carl Cameron on FOX indicated this may cause McCain some trouble in his upcoming visit to Naw'leans to promote offshore drilling.
Bottom line...only in the RAT world can this River incident be related to offshore drilling. Of course, in their myopic world, if a tanker overturned on a highway, it would be the fault of "BIG OIL", somehow.
The barrels of ethanol I buy are 55 gallons.
Maybe 42 is imperial gallons. Sounds about right.
A barrel is 42 gallons. A drum is 55 gallons.
If it was intentional , they wouldn’t have chosen a boat carrying “BIODIESEL” and styrene.
Here is the story from the local New Orleans news channel’s website at www.wwltv.com
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl072308cbtanker.8243ab1f.html
Oil pours into river after boat collision
04:33 PM CDT on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard closed a 29-mile stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a collision early Wednesday a tugboat pushing one barge and a 600-foot tanker.
Video: Watch the Story Nobody was injured, but more than 419,000 gallons of heavy, almost tar-like fuel oil spilled from the barge, said Lt. Cdr.
Cheri Ben-Iesau, a Coast Guard spokeswoman.
The double-hulled tanker Tintomara was loaded with about 4.2 million gallons of biodiesel and nearly 1.3 million gallons of styrene, but was not leaking, said Michael Wilson, president of ship management company Laurin Maritime (America) Inc. in Houston.
The collision occurred about 1:30 a.m. CDT just upriver from the Crescent City Connection, a pair of bridges between New Orleans’ east and west banks. A smell which many people thought was diesel was noticeable in the French Quarter and parts of New Orleans’ central business district.
The river was closed about 3:30 a.m., about 45 minutes after someone reported a strong odor of diesel coming from the river, Young said. Tug boats were holding the halves of the barge in place, she said.
The tanker was fully manned with a crew of 22 and was heading downriver, said Wilson, who heads the subsidiary of Laurin Maritime AB of Goteborg, Sweden. The tanker is owned by Whitefin Shipping Co. Ltd. of Gibraltar, and the company’s technical director was sent to the scene, he said.
The Liberian-flagged tanker had only minor damage, company spokesman Darrell Wilson said. He said the styrene, taken on at Carville, and some of the biodiesel taken on at St. Rose were bound for Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the rest of the biodiesel was going to Hamburg, Germany.
Styrene is a colorless, sweet-smelling liquid used to make plastics and rubber, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Products containing styrene include insulation, fiberglass, plastic pipes, automobile parts, shoes, drinking cups and other food containers, and carpet backing, according to the registry Web site.
The Coast Guard was checking for pollution and investigating what happened, Young said.
Two ferries that cross the river between New Orleans’ west bank and the French Quarter and one that runs from Chalmette to the west bank could not operate because of the closure.
The fresh water intake for New Orleans’ west bank is below the spill but the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board has enough water stored to last a day to a day and a half, spokeswoman Marcia St. Martin told WWL-TV. The intake for the east bank is above the site, she said.
Ben-Iesau said the state Department of Environmental Quality made sure that all water intakes and sensitive environmental areas downriver from the spill were boomed off to keep the fuel oil out.
The state, Coast Guard and others were checking past incidents to see where spilled oil is likely to collect.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
No problem paying 4/5 dollars a gallon makes a few oil spills WORTH IT.. ANWR is so cold a spill there would immediately become like rubber.. making cleanup easy..
Good idea, genius. Much more fun to sling around unfounded accusations and leave the bother of reporting actual facts to somebody else.
This is the crap that passes for political discourse these days. A nation of idiots.
The double-hulled tanker Tintomara was loaded with about 4.2 million gallons (15.9 million liters) of biodiesel bound for Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and nearly 1.3 million gallons (4.9 million liters) of styrene bound for Hamburg, Germany, but was not leaking, said Michael Wilson, president of ship management company Laurin Maritime (America) Inc. in Houston. The company is a subsidiary of Goteborg, Sweden-based Laurin Maritime AB.
What dummy is scheduling McCain’s visits? He finally listened to the idea of visiting energy sites while Obama is overseas and where do they pick to go? To an oil rig in the Gulf with a storm brewing. So what happens? They have to cancel. With a thousand places they could have went these dumb nuts pick the most vulnerable one. I hate to admit it but we have some real idiots on our team.
Thank you. I was about to post the same comment.
Unlike the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, people
are nearer to this Mississippi event and can personally
witness how (with new technology) a spill can be quickly
dispatched.
http://valdezsciences.com/artRes/PDFFiles/10_4_Boehm_Pristine.pdf
WHY OIL SPILLS ARE A DIMINISHING DANGER
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/01/28/74612/index.htm
[... “I will rely on the better posters here to augment this with the actual news.” Good idea, genius. Much more fun to sling around unfounded accusations and leave the bother of reporting actual facts to somebody else. This is the crap that passes for political discourse these days. A nation of idiots...]
You just ignore old Romulus. He’s just jealous because
he didn’t pick up on the drive by’s transparent attempts
to sully conservatives DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW
enthusiasm.
not a rig, right? The tanker could have been a foreign tanker.
If this happened, it was on purpose. Can spilled oil be used to tar and feather?
But there’s no need to dispatch the spill! It was biodiesel - that’s good and green, right?
Undoubtably your post toasties were an unusual shade of yellow this morning.
Ream us, Romulus.
I believe the 42 gal./barrel came from the size of wooden barrels and thus became a standard. 42 U.S. gal.
Thank you....
You’re entirely welcome.
I got your back FRiend.
Your posts are prime examples of what I’m talking about.
This is the crap that passes for political discourse these days.
Talkin bout yerself again.....
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