Posted on 09/07/2020 6:40:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Venezuela is in the midst of a massive oil spill covering a pristine national park, in what's the world's second-biggest oil spill of 2020 and nobody's saying a thing. The pristine Morrocoy national park in western Venezuela will likely take 50 years to recover.
Here's what the news was last August 12, from a Canadian news agency, and there's been little said since:
An oil spill in Venezuela has coated a stretch of the crisis-wracked nation’s Caribbean coastline, treasured for its white sand beaches, clusters of small islands and wildlife.
Fisherman and locals living around Morrocoy National Park began reporting oil washing ashore last week and it has coated roughly 15 kilometres of beaches. The area popular with tourists is located 300 kilometres from the capital of Caracas.
Venezuelan authorities acknowledged the spill, saying they’re containing and cleaning it up, but so they far haven’t said what caused it.
The area is near El Palito refinery operated by the struggling state-owned PDVSA oil company, but Environmental Minister Oswaldo Barbera tweeted late Tuesday that a flyover confirmed that the spill did not come from the refinery. He didn’t identify the source, however.
It's hard to prove a negative, but based on what I've searched, global environmental groups are saying nothing. Local environmental groups are repressed, so they get a pass. But as for the wel-heeled others, I've checked, not a one is saying a thing. And day by day, the pictures get more and more horrible.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
So after successfully destroying their oil industry they are sabotaging any prospect of tourism of half a century.
Well, maybe not.
Gov't owns the refinery and all the wells, but they say it wasn't them.
Who owns all the ships? Are they all accounted for?
Are there any pipelines? Anybody check them?
It’s only bad if the evil US does it. C’mon maaannnnnnn!
One thing we’ve learned from big oil spills is that they self-clean much faster than the environmentalists claim. Oil-eating bacteria and wave action, especially in a warm place like Venezuela.
Typical lefty: “Oh, who gives a $@#% about the planet! - Trump lies! We GOTTA get rid of him!”
There is a tanker off of Venezuela filled with their oil that has been listing and people were worried about THAT causing a bad oil spill.
Is this another spill???
—here’s another part of the country messed up—
https://arcominero.infoamazonia.org/story/gold-mining
Venezuela is a mess. This is where the left wants to take America.
Sad. Such a beautiful country with so much potential and it is now ruled by “rich oligarchs” and a security apparatus terrified of being held responsible for atrocities in the last decade.
“Spread the wealth” always becomes concentrated wealth in the hands of the ruling elite and poverty and misery among everyone else.
I was thinking the same thing. After Unternehmung Pfaffenschlag in 1942, the U.S. east coast was covered in oil from Maine to Florida, but by wars end it had all magically disappeared.
Nothing will improve until the Cubans are removed.
***take 50 years to recover. ***
Has England and Europe ever gotten over the Torrey Canyon oil spill back in 1967?
Black Oil Matters
Most of the oil being produced in Venezuela is very heavy thick high sulfur oil. It borders on tar.
The Venezuelan people have to throw socialism out of their country along with the corruptocrats who have implemented it.
The main impediment to this as I see it are the “security forces.” They have committed atrocities and stolen peoples property and they know that once they are removed from power there will be a retribution.
This is why socialists always give the security forces “a little taste” so they are as corrupt as their leaders.
RE: Most of the oil being produced in Venezuela is very heavy thick high sulfur oil. It borders on tar.
Still, countries purchase them.
That’s what REFINERIES are there for.
Then Chavez had a better idea:
Blend the stuff off with paving grade material sent to China for a lower net-back.
Genius.
Why no outcry from the Greenies?
No deep pockets to pick.
There is a magazine in Alaska dedicated to the Valdez spill. It still persists inspite of the fact the episode is long gone.
I expect that magazine will cover the spill in order to stay relevant and keep the salaries being paid.
>> Oil-eating bacteria
Slippery critters
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