Oil spills galore....and very little discussion

[kaiser soze]

A very horrible one In Australia with very little coverage

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/australia.oilslick/index.html

(CNN) -- Australian authorities have declared several coastal areas near Brisbane disaster zones after a massive oil spill earlier this week, according to the Queensland government.
Large stretches of Queensland's coastline are being affected by the oil.

Large stretches of Queensland's coastline are being affected by the oil.

"This is a very serious situation," Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said, according to a news release on Friday. "It appears the volume of oil involved is much greater than originally reported by the Pacific Adventurer. And the effect of the oil spill is more widespread."

A New one in San Fransisco

http://cbs5.com/local/SF.bay.spill.2.1281427.html


U.S. Coast Guard crews was investigating an oil spill from a vessel in the San Francisco Bay Friday morning.

The spill was reported at 6:48 a.m. from a vessel anchored at Anchorage Nine, located about two miles south of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, according to the Coast Guard.


And in the Gulf of Mexico

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22spill.html

HOUSTON — More than 18,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled Tuesday night when two ships collided in the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles southeast of Galveston, Tex.

It is time these fucking lazy fucks reinvest their fucking billions in profits into safer technology and competent employees. Heads deserve to roll.

Just imagine what our coasts would look like if "Drill baby Drill" became a reality.

[travesty]

Just imagine what our coasts would look like if "Drill baby Drill" became a reality.

Yeah...because all of these spills came from drilling rigs. Oh wait...they didn't(n)

[kaiser soze]

oil never spills out of rigs :rolleyes:

oh wait....what (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41353000/jpg/_41353107_3fire-online.jpg) is (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41353000/jpg/_41353225_7fire-online.jpg) this (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41353000/jpg/_41353099_6fire-online.jpg)? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4725611.stm)

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7016872681

Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer

Perth, Australia (AHN) - The Thai operator of a leaking and burning oil rig in Timor Sea will use 4,000 barrels of mud to stop the spill, which started on August 21 and has since spread to a 25,000 square mile of sea.

The mud will be poured down a relief well to plug the leak and stop the fire at the West Atlas platform, according to PTTEP Australasia director Jose Martins.

Some 400 barrels of oil are spilling from the rig daily and the amount spreading in Timor Sea for the past 10 weeks is considered Australia's third-worst oil spill.




Feel free to go swimming and fishing there travesty, I'm sure it'll be a splash!

oh and the MMS report post Katrina and Rita

http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2006/press0501.htm

MMS also is releasing the following tally of hurricane-related oil/condensate/chemical spills in Federal offshore OCS waters as reported to MMS and the National Response Center. Six spills of 1,000 barrels or greater were reported; the largest of these was 3,625 barrels of condensate reported by the Gulf South Pipeline Company in the Eugene Island Block 51 area. A total of 146 spills of 1 barrel or greater have been reported in the Federal OCS waters; 37 of these were 50 barrels or greater. No shoreline or wildlife impacts were noted from these spills.

oh and this could never happen again, with all the advances in technology, safety, and competence proven since

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0320-02.htm - 2001

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - The world's largest offshore oil rig sank on Tuesday despite desperate rescue efforts and began spewing oil off the coast of Brazil five days after powerful blasts ripped through the platform killing 10 people.

yeah you are right about the (n)

If you want to take the chances of your beaches looking like this (http://images.google.com/images?q=oil%20spill%20beach&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi), then well I have no idea what goes on in your head.

Your lack knowing and sad to say (caring) proves there is very little discussion

[travesty]

or you could read this (http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Oil-Spills-Impact-on-the-Ocean.html)
and find that more oil naturally seeps from the ocean floor than all the world's "spills" combined And that more than double that amount is let into the oceans from normal, albeit somewhat careless, shipping operations and maintenance AND that more than five times that amount simply washes into the ocean from wastewater and run-off! Since it also shows that the amount of oil spilled from drilling operations is less than half the amount spilled from shipping it, wouldn't it then make sense to drill it where you use it and eliminate the shipping part? Is that unreasonable? I know that may seem too logical for some.

It's not my lack of knowing, it's yours. Direct your finger pointing and efforts where they will make a difference for fuck's sake. No one purposely ruptures a ships hull and releases any type of cargo into the sea. These are ACCIDENTS, yes regretable and yes more measures should be taken to minimize them but you are completely missing the big picture in order to regurgitate a sorry 2009 Reublican campaign slogan in the hope of eliciting some sort of condemnation of simple human error.

I make my living on the water, no one wants it cleaner than me. Ship hull integrity standards in US waters are amongst the most stringent in the world. Over 80% of the worlds commercial vessels can not even enter US waters.

[Whatitis]

Great points Travesty but those facts just aren't sensational.

[kaiser soze]

well I guess your saying if mother nature can do it, so can we

travesty my initial point was accountability and the lopsided aspect of profit over holding responsibility and receiving punishment. There have been many oil related accidents that have been poorly handled, shit Prince William Sound is still suffering and Exxon was all but exonerated in the crime! Ok, you know I'm exaggerating. Yes there are accidents but for every accident improved measures should be made to minimize the next one and I'm sure many are growing tired of seeing such environmental tragedies when they can be avoided.

[travesty]

I hear you and like I agree we should always be improving safety and environmental security. Do know that, at least in the US and Canada, "accidents" like this do not go unpunished and uninvestigated. Those responsible are now looking for new jobs and will never find another on the high seas, guaranteed. The Mechant Marine and the US Coast Guard do not joke around with oil spills. Even with recreational boats if you pump the water from the bilge of your 20' ski boat and there is any trace of oil being discharged....huge fines. For commercial operators it likely means the end of your business and almost certainly your career.

Oil spills are nothing compared to Alang, India (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3558527.stm) where the vast majority of the world's out of use ships are driven on to the beach and disassembled by hand with little or no regulations. Talk about a superfund site:eek: It just pains me that places like this and the squalid lives of the people working there are ignored but when a few cuddly little otters die due to an accident people are outraged.