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Maybe they’ll fine those at fault like they did for the Valdez spill. /s
Just another example of oil trying to find it’s way back home.
I thought New Orleans was at the point the Mississippi river emptied into the Gulf of Mexico. I don’t understand the reference to 100 miles here.
The double-hulled tanker Tintomara was shipping about 4.2 million gallons (15.9 million liters) of bio-diesel to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and 1.3 million gallons (4.9 million liters) of styrene to Hamburg, Germany.
Note: not the leaking vessel. The tanker hit the barge. The crash was very powerful causing the barge to split in half, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Jaclyn Young. The barge was loaded with fuel oil and more than 419,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of the substance spilled, said Lt. Cdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau, a Coast Guard spokeswoman
Looks like the tug was being operated by someone with an apprentice license, not a captain’s license. No captain aboard, and from what I’ve read, it’s mandatory one is there.
It is also the second crash this month by this tow company.
“The massive oil spill that remains a major threat to the area’s fragile delta ecosystem now stretches from New Orleans to the mouth of the Mississippi River — a distance of 100 miles, Coast Guard officials said early Thursday.”
The today’s modern technology for abating oil spills, the vast majority of the damage will be cleaned up before the first “claimant” files a lawsuit, and the “eco-system” will be in major recovery mode by the time that suit goes to trial
The environmental myth is that the “damages” are permanent - they’re not. With our help and some time, mother nature fully recovers.
Just light the damn stuff on fire already.
I predict, sometime in the next 72 hours....someone will say, in an "official" capacity...
It's Bush's fault, had he not signed the document lifting the drill ban, this spill would not have happened.
Shocked it hasn't happened yet....
Has a liberal (or for that matter, a journalist) ever found an ecosystems that isn't "fragile"?
Heck, they would call the ecosystem in the worst part of my town fragile.