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To: combjelly who wrote (260004)	11/14/2005 2:16:01 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) of 1572635

re: Having said that, the trash the people on the rigs throw out is really annoying... I was taken back by the following... This year, the warm water of the Loop Current fueled Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as they tore through the offshore rigs, pipelines and refineries in the central and western gulf. As a result, U.S. Coast Guard officials said more than 7-million gallons of petroleum products spilled. By comparison, in 1989 the Exxon Valdez spilled 11-million gallons. Smaller spills are far more common. The Coast Guard has documented more than 239,000 oil spills between 1973 and 2001. Some environmental advocates say their biggest concern is not a big spill but pollution generated by the rigs' routine operation. In a study of the Area 181 proposal, the EPA warned routine chemical discharges of such pollutants as barium, chromium and arsenic would "introduce significant quantities of contaminants to these relatively pristine waters." In its study of the Chevron proposal, the Minerals Management Service predicted all 12 rigs "would contribute about 1.65-billion pounds per year of contaminants," which could lead to "the long-term, regional degradation of offshore water quality." John

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