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There is quite a bit of oil going into the oceans all the time. Major oil spills are a rather small proportion of the total, when averaged over time. Some data on this can be found at the following link:
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources.../oilspills.htm
Alaska is still seriously contaminated from the Valdez spill...from well over a decade ago. This is many times worse.
Here's a disgusting video of what lies just under the surface of an apparently clean beach:
http://video.godlikeproductions.com/...or_generations
There are, but I bet each one thats on US soil gets 100x the news coverage now. For instance this one in MI, right by where I went college:Quote:
Originally Posted by ArmadaBC
http://www.wwmt.com/articles/margin-...ttom-page.html
800k gallons in the world of oil spills is pretty small but its enough to affect the kzoo/marshall area adversely. and people are paying attention...I only caught this recent article because it was plastered allover my facebook from friends in the area.Quote:
State of emergency declared after oil spill
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July 27, 2010 5:47 PM
WEST MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A state of emergency has been declared in response to the spreading oil spill in West Michigan.
Kalamazoo County's Office of Emergency Management has declared a local state of emergency in response to the leak.
The Emergency Operations Center has been activated to coordinate response efforts, and the Kalamazoo Chapter of the American Red Cross is preparing for possible sheltering of residents nearby.
Newschannel 3 has had crews out since Monday afternoon keeping on eye on the spill and the efforts to contain it.
A spokesperson for Enbridge Energy says it is the company's responsibility to clean up the spill, and the company will do so under the oversight of the DNRE and the EPA.
Before Enbridge tries to determine what caused the leak, the priority is containing all the oil.
“There's one boom further upstream, there's one right there,” said Kristine Boley-Morse when Newschannel 3 spoke to her near Marshall.
Boley-Morse grew up on the Kalamazoo River, and on Tuesday she was out helping to track the oil spill's damage.
“I spent many years on the Kalamazoo River,” said Boley-Morse, “trying to improve it, and it's kind of, we get knocked down to square one again.”
Boley-Morse works with the Calhoun Conservation District, just one of the agencies that's monitoring the spread of the 800,000 plus gallons that leaked into Talmadge Creek.
Exactly this. BP has been making the right moves at the right time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mathematics
1. Allow the CEO to be a pariah during the worst of the event. Everyone hates that douchebag, because they need someone to hate. Behind the scenes work like hell to develop a plan to kill it. Cancel dividend and sell a minor asset that you were going to sell anyway to 'generate funds for the cleanup effort'
2a. When there is a light at the end of the tunnel, shitcan said pariah (even though he's going to work for the Russian/BP joint venture). Grab headlines, douchebag is out.
2b. Post quarterly earnings as a huge loss (write off entire disaster now to cover the fact that is was a very profitable quarter, and get a bonus tax break)
3. Finally kill off well, install new CEO, everything will be ok America! Boy did this hurt our company, look at those quarterly earnings. Here's the new CEO scrubbing a pelican (which will die within a month anyway). Hooray the new BP and Gulf Coast jobs!
4. Clean up the visible area's until the next scandal grabs the spotlight. Report 4 billion in 3rd qtr profits once nobody is looking. Restore dividend because retirees in England are counting on it.
5. Sweep the rest under the rug, reclaim 12 Billion of the cleanup fund over the next 4 years to avoid attention. The solution to pollution is dillution, and the gulf is really fucking big. That little bit of leftover oil you see is from the cruise ship, and the reason there is no fishing in the gulf is pesticides from farming in the midwest. I.E. YOU CAN'T PROVE SHIT MOTHERFUCKER.
This will be forgotten by 90% of Americans before the end of the year, if they kill the well in the next week.
and Gonehuckin gets it too.
DBT, is your avatar what I think it is? Because its blowing my mind right now.
First step: Get rid of all those white and yellow lines on the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by Downbound Train
I don't know...What do you think it is?Quote:
Originally Posted by flyandski365
Here's another article about the oil spill disapearing and some speculation as to what's happening.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews_excl/ynews_excl_sc3270
DJSapp FTMFW.
yep....it's basically all gone...nothing to see here.
http://www.noaa.gov/sciencemissions/...t_GU-10-02.pdf
Your report is based on 2 month old information.Quote:
Originally Posted by montanaskier
Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10791343Quote:
Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said much oil had been "biodegraded by naturally occurring bacteria".
The same administration that put out your report is now saying the bacteria is eating it. Now what I'm afraid of is all of these oil rich bacteria clumping together and forming a sentiant life form, terrorizing small towns. I think they made a movie about it
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...rirIsEyKq-FeQ=