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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (392897)6/20/2008 9:27:28 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1578119
 
Frankly it's hard to get good information on the effect of Gulf drilling on the beaches... but you can't like this part:

For instance, Hurricane Katrina ripped into Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, destroying 115 oil platforms, significantly damaging 52 more and setting adrift 19. More than 7-million gallons of petroleum products spilled, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. By comparison, in 1989 the Exxon Valdez spilled 11-million gallons in Alaska's Prince William Sound.

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The Coast Guard documented more than 239,000 oil spills across the gulf between 1973 and 2001. In one study of the area where Chevron wanted to drill, the Minerals Management Service predicted that over the next 40 years there could be up to 870 spills of 2,000 gallons or less, which "is expected to result in small pollution events that could temporarily affect the enjoyment or use of some beach segments."
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