OMFGSrsly? No, WTF?
Jun. 15th, 2010 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanETA: and meanwhile, government officials raise estimate of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico to 35,000-60,000 barrels per day.
"Oil Executives Tell Committee That BP Spill Is an Aberration"
In their remarks to a House panel, the executives of oil drillers try to cast the BP spill as a rare event that their companies were not likely to repeat. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/business/16oil.html?nl=&emc=aua1
Holy WHAT THE FUCK?
No, seriously. What. The. Fuck?
Deepwater might be the only type of that particular spill, because of the nature of the drilling. But spills are "rare"? "Unlikely to repeat?"
A brief history of oil spills in the Gulf and Mississippi River
1979
June 3, Gulf of Mexico: exploratory oil well Ixtoc 1 blew out, spilling an estimated 140 million gallons of crude oil into the open sea.
1990
June 8, off Galveston, Tex.: Mega Borg released 5.1 million gallons of oil some 60 nautical miles south-southeast of Galveston
1993
Aug. 10, Tampa Bay, Fla.: three ships collided, the barge Bouchard B155, the freighter Balsa 37, and the barge Ocean 255. The Bouchard spilled an estimated 336,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil into Tampa Bay.
2000
Nov. 28, Mississippi River oil tanker Westchester ran aground dumping 567,000 gallons of crude oil into lower Mississippi.
2005
Aug.-Sept., New Orleans, 7 million gallons of oil were spilled during Hurricane Katrina
2006
June 19, Calcasieu River, Louisiana: An estimated 71,000 barrels of waste oil were released from a tank at the CITGO Refinery on the Calcasieu River during a violent rain storm.
2008
July 25, New Orleans, Louisiana: A 61-foot barge, carrying 419,000 gallons of heavy fuel, collides with a 600-foot tanker ship in the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leak from the barge
2010
Jan. 23, Port Arthur, Texas: The oil tanker Eagle Otome and a barge collide in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, causing the release of about 462,000 gallons of crude oil.
April 24, Gulf of Mexico As much as 5,000 barrels (200,000 gallons) of oil per day were leaking into the water.
(via http://waternewsnetwork.blogspot.com/)
I think that we've established a goddamned pattern of "oops, sorry, won't happen again really we mean it this time," no? And do you notice that they're happening more often? Hrmmm....
"Oil Executives Tell Committee That BP Spill Is an Aberration"
In their remarks to a House panel, the executives of oil drillers try to cast the BP spill as a rare event that their companies were not likely to repeat. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/business/16oil.html?nl=&emc=aua1
Holy WHAT THE FUCK?
No, seriously. What. The. Fuck?
Deepwater might be the only type of that particular spill, because of the nature of the drilling. But spills are "rare"? "Unlikely to repeat?"
A brief history of oil spills in the Gulf and Mississippi River
1979
June 3, Gulf of Mexico: exploratory oil well Ixtoc 1 blew out, spilling an estimated 140 million gallons of crude oil into the open sea.
1990
June 8, off Galveston, Tex.: Mega Borg released 5.1 million gallons of oil some 60 nautical miles south-southeast of Galveston
1993
Aug. 10, Tampa Bay, Fla.: three ships collided, the barge Bouchard B155, the freighter Balsa 37, and the barge Ocean 255. The Bouchard spilled an estimated 336,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil into Tampa Bay.
2000
Nov. 28, Mississippi River oil tanker Westchester ran aground dumping 567,000 gallons of crude oil into lower Mississippi.
2005
Aug.-Sept., New Orleans, 7 million gallons of oil were spilled during Hurricane Katrina
2006
June 19, Calcasieu River, Louisiana: An estimated 71,000 barrels of waste oil were released from a tank at the CITGO Refinery on the Calcasieu River during a violent rain storm.
2008
July 25, New Orleans, Louisiana: A 61-foot barge, carrying 419,000 gallons of heavy fuel, collides with a 600-foot tanker ship in the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leak from the barge
2010
Jan. 23, Port Arthur, Texas: The oil tanker Eagle Otome and a barge collide in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, causing the release of about 462,000 gallons of crude oil.
April 24, Gulf of Mexico As much as 5,000 barrels (200,000 gallons) of oil per day were leaking into the water.
(via http://waternewsnetwork.blogspot.com/)
I think that we've established a goddamned pattern of "oops, sorry, won't happen again really we mean it this time," no? And do you notice that they're happening more often? Hrmmm....
