Oil Spill

[pcolaboy]

Pcola if what your friends say is true for that kind of money there would be a caravan from every state of people with boats and front end loaders heading to the origin of the spill.I just watched a video about the fishermen in LA.They are pretty ticked off right now as BP is supposed to put them all to work helping out with booms etc.Not all are working.

Interesting website on how the GOV responds to oil spills

http://www.gov.mu/portal/sites/ncb/eurd/oil/noscp1/strategy.htm

There already are many "carpet baggers" here. Pensacola is one of the command posts for the spill in addition to Mobile, AL and Biloxi, MS.

 

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[inletsurf]

Too bad America is addicted to oil!!! We can do with out it.

I bet mercedes can make one kick azz horse carriage.

 

[Salvor6]

I don't know about Mercedes but look at the new Hummer:

 

[itmaiden]

Yea, that was a hot stopper news story this morning wasn't it ?

How many dead fish are showing up on shore ? Saw some pictures of oil soaked sea birds, and 6 dead oil covered dolphins, but nothing else.

itmaiden

The beginning of the end.

Tar balls found in key west

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100518/ap_on_re_us/us_gulf_oil_spill_key_west

 

[inletsurf]

Does anyone find it just oddly coincidental that we had an oil rig explode only weeks after the oil drill ban was lifted for the SE atlantic? We supposedly run the safest oil rigs in the world, safe enough that a super-rig owned by a leading oil company apparently took the risk in operation of this rig with NO emergency cap protocol with an acceptable readiness level in place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills

 

[aquanut]

Check this out:
If anyone knows how to make this into a link, please do so... I can't seem to do it. It's about using Hay and grass to absorb the oil.
Aquanut

 

[comfortably numb]

I just watched the noon news they said the slick has entered the loop current and could be in the keys as soon as this weekend.

 

[GopherDaGold]

Too bad America is addicted to oil!!! We can do with out it.

 

[FISHEYE]

Oil and hay is a bad idea.The oil can not be recovered out of the hay so that means it to be burned or go to a landfill somewhere.The best way is to use oil soaking booms made out of human or animal hair.The booms can be pressed and the oil can be recovered.Or have thousands of people go swimming at the beach to soak up the oil in the hair on their heads!

 

[godisnum1]

I still think the substance called HTP that's made by this company (http://www.americanproducts1.com/) should be used for the cleanup efforts. After all, it's made for oil drilling companies to use! It could possibly be used to stop the oil leak as well, if BP would use it... but I don't think they will, nor am I convinced they are trying to stop it.

Bran <><

 

[FISHEYE]

HTP works great for oil cleanup.So what do you do with the oil soaked HTP?

BP announced it was awarding tourism grants to the governors of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana to help promote tourism over the coming months, in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

BP said it would give $25 million to Florida and $15 million each to Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said he would use the funds "to spread the word that Florida's beaches are clean, our fish are biting and the Sunshine State is open for business."

 

[godisnum1]

HTP works great for oil cleanup.So what do you do with the oil soaked HTP?

BP announced it was awarding tourism grants to the governors of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana to help promote tourism over the coming months, in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

BP said it would give $25 million to Florida and $15 million each to Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said he would use the funds "to spread the word that Florida's beaches are clean, our fish are biting and the Sunshine State is open for business."

If you'll go to the page, you'll see that it can be incinerated and has a high BTU value, leaving only a 3% ash residual.
This means that it has the possibility of reducing disposal costs up to 75%, plus it's 100% organic.
It's absorption rate seems to be much higher than other methods of oil containment methods too...

Ah, so that's what Charlie Crist said about money being thrown our way... I figured it would be used for Florida Coast cleanup efforts??
No wonder he hasn't responded to the e-mail I sent him....

Bran <><

 

[mad4wrecks]

Possible gulf spill oil tar on Stuart beaches:

http://www.wptv.com/content/news/ma...h-hutchinson-isla/iQ4Kw6hMVUqt5NUrs6Qkcw.cspx

 

[Salvor6]

Not from the Gulf spill and biologist Mark Perry agrees.

 

[godisnum1]

I've noticed that... is there a possibility of it being some sort of cover up, since the oil clumps don't seem to be associated with the rig?
But then again, why would anyone stage a huge rig burning, exploding, and sinking... just to cover up some other leak?
This all just seems pretty strange....

Bran <><

 

[Salvor6]

There are numerous oil tankers sunk off the east coast during WWII. They ocasionally spew oil. Its common but nobody really looks for it until something like the happens. Tankers sunk near Stewart: the Gulfland, Halsey, Lubrafol.

 

[71 duster]

Well,when and if the oil hits the beaches how will it be removed?Do they scoop the "dirty " sand and remove it? How deep would they have to dig? Not a good thing but wouldn't that bring us all closer to the deep stuff? Glass half full?

 

[itmaiden]

Also, it has entered marshes in Louisiana:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4201573/oil-entering-gulf-loop-current?playlist_id=86856

itmaiden

Possible gulf spill oil tar on Stuart beaches:

http://www.wptv.com/content/news/ma...h-hutchinson-isla/iQ4Kw6hMVUqt5NUrs6Qkcw.cspx

 

[rgecy]

I remember visiting South Florida back in the late 80's and early 90's. There always seem to be tar on the beaches and most hotels and resorts had tar remover and rags to use so you didn't track it all over the place.

This spill is really going to be devastating! Tar balls on the beach are the least of our worries on how it will impact the environement!

Robert

 

[PyrateJim]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/1...-florida-keys-not-from-gulf-oil-spill/?hpt=T2


08:50 AM ET
Tar balls found in Keys not from BP spill
Tar balls discovered on the Florida Keys shoreline are not connected to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.

Tests done "conclusively show" that the tar balls found on the shoreline do not match the type of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The source of the tar balls remains unknown at this time.

"The conclusion that these tar balls are not from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident in no way diminishes the need to continue to aggressively identify and clean up tar ball-contaminated areas in the Florida Keys," Capt. Pat DeQuattro, commanding officer of the Coast Guard's Key West sector said. "We will continue to operate as a Unified Command and utilize funding through the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund until we have successfully identified any additional tar balls on the shoreline and completed cleanup efforts."

Post by: CNN news blog editor Mallory Simon
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