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     Toronto_s3 |
Just thought I'd start a new thread on the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Issue. This one comes with some photos. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/disaster_ unfolds_slowly_in_the.html As a side note I have a business friend who lives in Newfoundland and he was saying shrimp fishermen on the east coast of Canada are expecting an excellent year. Shrimp prices are going up and with so many U.S. shrimp boats unable to catch, the east coast boats are going to have a great season this year. | ||
| Xb12xmike |
 Map of the northern Gulf of Mexico showing the nearly 4,000 active oil and gas platforms. I don't think offshore drilling is gonna stop anytime soon. | ||
| Sifo |
The worst tragedy in all of this is reading the comments in the linked story. Our schools really have failed us. | ||
| Xb12xmike |
Yea... I was gonna say something about that but... (I just got rid of 2 ulcers, one was called RedWings, the other... Penguins...lol) The Louisiana Turducken business will surely benifit. I am gonna I order some for all my upcoming holidays. | ||
| Cowboy |
Damn almost 4000 structures with one spill in 30 yr's--- our safety record sure sucks | ||
| Whatever |
All I can say is, haven't the people of the Gulf Coast suffered enough? Oh, and those photos are stunning! | ||
| Crackhead |
there has been a lot more then one on 30 years. most are able to be contained or the platform fixed before it becomes a major disaster. | ||
| Roadcouch98 |
Has Anyone else noticed how the pattern in that photo looks like a dinosaur? | ||
| Bbbob |
Damn almost 4000 structures with one spill in 30 yr's--- our safety record sure sucks Sounds like what the Soviets said after Chernobyl... | ||
| Cowboy |
I guess every one in USA would like to stop drilling does buying more foren oil help our economy like it or not the world will not function with out oil or money. I guess when the chinese start drilling off the coast of Florida everone can rest easy. Just think if this was in the Atlantic and in the hands of a china company what they would say.(clean up cost to much we go home now) | ||
| Sifo |
Finally some encouraging news... BP: Mile-long tube sucking oil away from Gulf well | ||
| Blake |
Where's the oil? Model suggests much may be gone. | ||
| Indybuell |
Drill Baby Drill! | ||
| Dynasport |
I don't believe the oil is gone. They applied lots and lots of of dispersant, which I am afraid will cause more ecological damage in the long run. The Coast Guard fines the operators of vessels for putting dispersant on their spills, but in this case the government decided it was a good idea. | ||
| Blake |
So you don't believe in evaporation or that some may settle to sea bottom? What does history of previous much worse blowout in Gulf tell us?
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| Cochise |
The oil MUST be bad, if it weren't, the Whooping Cranes would be just called Cranes because they wouldn't have that cough. | ||
| Blake |
Nine months at 420,000 gallons per day. I don't recall that life in the Gulf disappeared in 1979, yet that is what the alarmists are stating after less than a month and half that flow rate. The Texas coast was absolutely hit with tar balls. You can still see remnants today where hotel's and condos on Mustang Island and South Padre Island (Winter home to the only surviving population of Whooping Cranes) still have washing stations that mention "tar". Wildlife on that same Texas coast is thriving, I mean THRIVING. The mistake that some are making is to equate the current Macondo blowout or any blowout 40+ miles offshore in the Gulf to the Exxon Valdez spill where in just days the entire 11 million gallons of very heavy, thick Alaskan crude was dumped within a sequestered coastal region entirely surrounded by islands some less than 5 miles from the grounded tanker. Truth... Compare geography...  Valdez Oil Spill Geography  Macondo Blowout Geography  Valdez Oil Spill Geography  Macondo Blowout Geography | ||
| Blake |
Joe, It's not a cough that characterizes the Cranes in Texas; it's their boisterous whooping it up, celebrating such good fortune, spending the Winter on a pristine Texas beach.  Dynasport, >>> "They applied lots and lots of of dispersant, which I am afraid will cause more ecological damage in the long run." Other than fear, upon what is that theory based? Is there any factual information that supports such concern? | ||
| Blake |
Crane on Texas coast caught in the act of whooping it up... |
