90 reports of oil and chemical releases associated with Hurricane Isaac!!! | |
Athena Awakened User ID: 7175934 United States 09/05/2012 05:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why am I not surprised... "If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” Samuel Adams, 1776 |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23242049 United States 09/05/2012 05:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Environment Pollution in USA on Wednesday, 05 September, 2012 at 03:25 (03:25 AM) UTC. Quoting: Luisport Description The Coast Guard is investigating about 90 reports of oil and chemical releases associated with Hurricane Isaac, including a leak from a closed storage facility in Plaquemines Parish that killed several brown pelicans, officials said Tuesday. Separately, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries closed a stretch of coastline from Elmer's Island to Belle Pass after a tar mat appeared in the Gulf of Mexico and tar balls washed ashore. The closure affects commercial and recreational fisheries from the shore to one mile offshore. The agency and Department of Environmental Quality will determine the source of the oil, but its location has stoked concerns that it is remnants of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil leak. The Coast Guard did not address Tuesday's coastal closure, which happened hours after senior officers, including Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp, held a press conference at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans's headquarters in Algiers. But Coast Guard officials said that in addition to causing new spills, hurricanes do stir up oil resting the seabed. "It often happens, particularly down here in the Gulf area," Papp said. Oil samples have been sent to a Coast Guard laboratory in New London, Conn., for analysis, which is expected to take a week, Lt. Lily Zepeda said. The Coast Guard is responding to "several different reports of oil," including at Myrtle Grove in Plaquemines Parish, said Rear Adm. Roy Nash, commander of the 8th Coast Guard District, whose headquarters is in New Orleans. [link to hisz.rsoe.hu] all the dirty little secrets of what they've allowed on their watch are coming home now more fully to roost upon their heads just in time for the "name the new potus" dog and pony show timing, if you can't beat it you'd best join it I say or die tryin' |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 932329 United States 09/05/2012 05:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I saw this coming when the storm had not yet hit Thread: is the rain in Louisiana full of oil from the gulf ? |
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Captain Spaulding User ID: 18366995 United States 09/05/2012 07:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Companies see storms as an opportunity to release chemical waste, they do this all the time, it cheaper than, getting rid of it properly. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13199824 Just saying also possible. I'd say even probable. Isn't fluoride a waste product from aluminum and pesticides that cost the chemical companies too much to dispose of so they "claimed" it helps your teeth (and use it in anti-depressants) and market the crap instead of paying to have it disposed of? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13199824 United States 09/05/2012 08:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Companies see storms as an opportunity to release chemical waste, they do this all the time, it cheaper than, getting rid of it properly. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13199824 Just saying also possible. I'd say even probable. Isn't fluoride a waste product from aluminum and pesticides that cost the chemical companies too much to dispose of so they "claimed" it helps your teeth (and use it in anti-depressants) and market the crap instead of paying to have it disposed of? Am sure if someone did some research you will find out, that every major past storm, that some type of chemical release (by mistake of course) had happened. If these corparations are allowed to exist, evidently the whole world will be one vast wasteland. But folks can take a good cause for the people, its called monkey wrenching. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20368486 United States 09/05/2012 09:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My husband is from Louisiana. Our dog's name is NOLA.... And I can tell you that pretty much all of Louisiana is a toxic waste dump (along with most of East Texas) As an old oil man once told me.... The secret to po-lution is dye-lution.... God knows what's been poured into the Gulf... |