Posted on 04/30/2010 11:59:59 AM PDT by Willie Green
The first oil-covered birds are being seen on the Gulf shore as well as further out. One bird, a gannet, which is normally white with a yellow head and long, pointed beak was covered in thick, black oil. The rescuers are cleaning the bird at Fort Jackson, a historic landmark about 70 miles southeast of New Orleans.
Rescuers are expecting to be busy for a long time cleaning the birds and other wildlife with Dawn detergent, which seems to work best. Hopefully, they can save many of the otherwise doomed creatures from this huge disaster. There are over 400 species that they approximate will be affected by this.
Fishermen are also going to be suffering from this spill. Millions of fish and shrimp will die as a result of this spill.
Even Trains need Diesel.
I think they would make a nice bonfire on the beach...wouldn’t want to cook marshmallows on em, but don’t really want to spend twenty gazillion dollars on this either...it was an accident.
I heard on local news this AM that this oil was not black and thick like Valdez but more like a motor oil and that they were going to try and use a process or substance to break the oil up into tiny managable particles that could be absorbed naturally into the coast line. I know that sounds like wishful thinking but it was on TV this AM.
More little birdies will be killed by leftie wind farms than this ‘Apocalypse in the Gulf’...(you KNOW Zero is going to say that before the weekend is out...)
139,459 gallons of dispersant have been deployed and an additional 51,000 gallons are available
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/534651/
(breaks down the oil)
Birds in Oil? Sounds like KFC to me.
Even Trains need Diesel.
Not if you build 'em to use electricity from the grid instead.
OOoh! Coal!
But we need nukes and maglev for more serious business travel.
Why did Obama wait for 8 days to do anything?
The oil wouldn’t have reached the beaches....
Most of the animals cleaned up after the Valdez oil spill died anyway. Beaches aresssively cleaned with steam, detergent, and hot water are still sterile today while areas where nature ran its course have long ago recovered.
I’m for letting what oil gets passed the booms just be allowed to form into natural tar balls. They burn, just go down to the beach pick up a tar ball or a truckload and heat the house this winter with tar balls. Good redneck activity.
About 50% of the electricity in the U.S. is generated from coal. So more electric trains means burning more coal.
Which is fine by me. I just don’t live on a train line, don’t want to go where train lines go, never have, never will.
I prefer the infinite points of origin and infinite points of destination and non-scheduled immediacy of CARS.
If I wanted to implement the perfectly controlled socialism, I would force people to use trains. Then I own them. They can’t go anywhere without me controlling their movement. Bwaaahaahaaa!
I think the Discovery network has an article on the Exxon-Valdez spill and one thing they did horribly wrong was wasting time scrubbing birds and rocks. They said all it did was terrorize the birds in the last moments of their life and did very little to save any of them.
I prefer the infinite points of origin and infinite points of destination and non-scheduled immediacy of CARS.
Well you can build your coal-fired car if you want.
But I don't think they'll give you an emissions sticker for it.
This could get interesting.
New EPA regulations remove phosphate from dishwashing liquids.
Dawn is considered the best to wash these birds with.
Wonder how effective everything will be without the phosphates? The new blends of dishwasher gels leave a very visible white coating on your dishes.
More of the unintended consequences of the EPA rulings?
This could get interesting.
New EPA regulations remove phosphate from dishwashing liquids.
Dawn is considered the best to wash these birds with.
Wonder how effective everything will be without the phosphates? The new blends of dishwasher gels leave a very visible white coating on your dishes.
More of the unintended consequences of the EPA rulings?
I'll take three strips, slaw, and an order of mashed potatoes. Thank you! :-)
The 2012 Obamavette!
There’s a thin component, then there’s some isolated denser chunks. Apparently these little dudes landed on the chunks.
Probably because his “middle class vacation” took priority.
While I don’t have the numbers handy, I’d like to point out that this is the most productive fishery in the USA. Hundreds of thousands of people work the gulf fisheries and it generates many billions of dollars for the area. The coast (Tx and La) is largely marsh and wet-lands. Should all this get wiped out, even if just for a few years, it will be very bad for all of us.
The left is happy to put in so much time and money to save the shrimp, while, at the same time, trying to mandate public money to fund the murder of babies. Such hypocrites!!!!!
That one looks a quart low, better throw it back.
OBAMA’S FAULT
No matter what we do to contain this mess, this administration is going to use this incident to further the Cap in trade legislation. This was a big win for the leftists and environmentalists. There is nothing in life that contains no risk but you can't tell that to the utopians.
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