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Oil spill in Commencement Bay (Tacoma, WA)
Seattle PI ^
| Thursday, October 14, 2004
Posted on 10/14/2004 1:46:01 PM PDT by ecurbh
TACOMA, Wash. -- An oil spill stained Tacoma's Commencement Bay on Thursday, and state Department of Ecology investigators said they did not immediately know the source or extent.
Spill responders from the department the U.S. Coast Guard were sent to Dalco Passage, between the south end of Vashon Island and Tacoma's Point Defiance, after someone on a tug boat reported thick black oil about 1 a.m. in the water, Ecology spokeswoman Mary Ellen Voss said.
The initial report indicated the spill was about an acre in size, but television news footage from a helicopter showed an oily sheen spreading over a much larger area.
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posted on
10/14/2004 1:46:01 PM PDT
by
ecurbh
To: HairOfTheDog; Ramius; Scott from the Left Coast
Uh-oh. Hope they can contain it before it reaches the beach house.
2
posted on
10/14/2004 1:47:23 PM PDT
by
ecurbh
(Albatross!)
To: ecurbh
There goes oil prices higher and stocks lower.
Not good.
3
posted on
10/14/2004 1:47:34 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
To: ecurbh
What did Bush know and when did he know it?
4
posted on
10/14/2004 1:47:55 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(John Kerry- "A Hamster Tale..")
To: ecurbh
To: ecurbh
6
posted on
10/14/2004 1:50:46 PM PDT
by
ecurbh
(Albatross!)
To: ecurbh
7
posted on
10/14/2004 1:53:32 PM PDT
by
ecurbh
(Albatross!)
To: rwfromkansas
Something stinks to high heaven over the oil prices!! I would bet anything that Soros the demon bastard is behind it! I knew without a shadow of a doubt this would happen...suppress the OIL market, drive the prices to kingdom come and the folk would be screaming for W head....pray, folks, pray that God will help us beat these demons from HELL!!
To: RoseofTexas
This is the RATS, "OCTOBER SURPRISE!!" We not even in the Holiday season and prices keep going up...VERY suspicious!!
To: CyberCowboy777; Libertina
10
posted on
10/14/2004 1:59:54 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(<<<loves her hubbit and the horse he rode in on :~D)
To: ecurbh
Bizarre.... Big spill they don't even know where it came (or is coming) from.
11
posted on
10/14/2004 2:01:26 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(<<<loves her hubbit and the horse he rode in on :~D)
To: RoseofTexas
Something stinks to high heaven over the oil prices!! I would bet anything that Soros the demon bastard is behind it! I knew without a shadow of a doubt this would happen...suppress the OIL market, drive the prices to kingdom come and the folk would be screaming for W head....pray, folks, pray that God will help us beat these demons from HELL!!
NYMEX futures start dropping rather steadily after Nov2004
NYMEX Crude Oil Futures
12
posted on
10/14/2004 2:14:10 PM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: HairOfTheDog
To: RedBloodedAmerican
14
posted on
10/14/2004 2:15:02 PM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
("I don't worry about Muggers. My biggest fear is Poachers." - Elizabeth Edwards)
To: Chad Fairbanks
To: RedBloodedAmerican
No... I don't think we have great undersea reserves of crude oil, if we do, it would be a surprise ;~D. My brother on the phone is supposing a ship may have pumped / flushed his bilge.... which they are supposed to do far out at sea. There is a soup of leaked oils and fuels in any bilge, and a mix might be why they can't tell what it is.
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posted on
10/14/2004 2:19:44 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(<<<loves her hubbit and the horse he rode in on :~D)
To: Mr. Mojo
To: RedBloodedAmerican
I've been watching some interesting dish washing detergent commercials lately, and I wondered, "If Dawn cuts grease the way they say they do, why don't they dump tons of it in the water to get rid of that oil? Plus, the workers would have really soft hands!"
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posted on
10/14/2004 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
("I don't worry about Muggers. My biggest fear is Poachers." - Elizabeth Edwards)
To: Chad Fairbanks
There actually are detergents that they used in Prince William Sound. It doesn't make the oil disappear, however, it only makes it sink to the bottom.
My brother was in the Coast Guard and was up there during the Valdez spill, and he wonders why there aren't/weren't quick use of some nifty diaper thingies that you can throw on the water that soak up oil, but not water. Most areas around oil docks have thousands of the things, and there ought to have been a stock of them somewhere in Commencement Bay.
19
posted on
10/14/2004 2:29:03 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(<<<loves her hubbit and the horse he rode in on :~D)
To: Chad Fairbanks
"If Dawn cuts grease the way they say they do, why don't they dump tons of it in the water to get rid of that oil?
More than you probably wanted to know about using detergent. In a nutshell: detergent makes the oil molecules less adverse to mixing in with the water. It'll have the opposite affect of what you want in a spill: instead of containing it for removal the oil can spread out further.
Plus, the workers would have really soft hands!"
And if they get "the calming smell of lavender" there might be a little more love in the world :)
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posted on
10/14/2004 2:29:30 PM PDT
by
lelio
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