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To: tejek who wrote (399194)	7/16/2008 12:36:12 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578006

"Conservative confusion over oil spills and hurricanes" Well, they do confuse easily. So cut them some slack, ok?

To: tejek who wrote (399194)	7/16/2008 7:17:18 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578006

the hurricanes caused disastrous spills onshore See the ONSHORE? Of course there were big spills onshore. Refineries and tank farms were flooded and wrecked. The Coast Guard estimates more than 7 million gallons of oil were spilled from industrial plants, storage depots and other facilities around southeast Louisiana. That is about two-thirds as much oil as spilled from the Exxon Valdez tanker in 1989. But unlike the oil from the Valdez, which poured from a single source, these oil spills are scattered at sites throughout southeast Louisiana. The oil could threaten the region’s fragile coastal marshes, but three-quarters of it was not posing a danger to wetlands, the Coast Guard said, noting that more than 1.3 million gallons had evaporated or dispersed. Crews had recovered nearly 2 million gallons and had contained another 2.3 million gallons behind booms and other barriers, the Coast Guard said. Nearly all of the oil leaked near the Mississippi River south of New Orleans and was contained by earthenberms designed for that purpose, said Capt. Frank Paskewich, federal on-scene coordinator for the Coast Guard. Any oil that escaped the berms flowed inland, away from the river levees. Only a few minor oil sheens, thin enough to evaporate in the sun, have appeared on the river so far, he said, and they probably came from small watercraft that sank in the storm. None of the leaks sent oil directly into the Mississippi River, he said. The leaks involved either ruptured tanks or pipelines protected by levees. Offshore the spillage was pretty minor. I posted about this here, but that was a month ago and I guess you figure you can start recycling the lies about it again: Message 24691912 From the Dept of the Interior: "Offshore environmental impacts as a result of hurricane events in the GOMR have typically been minor due to the downhole safety valves at wells and operating practices conducted by the oil and gas industry with respect to platforms and pipelines in advance of approaching hurricanes, and the Oil Spill Response Plans that are developed by operators and submitted to the MMS. The impacts from Hurricanes KATRINA and Rita were typical of this historical experience. While cleanup was required. The volume of oil spilled and impacts to shore from the offshore infrastructure were categorized as minor." .... Offshore oil As for oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, Paskewich said the Coast Guard has fielded no reports of offshore spills there, though leaks could spring when the thousands of oil platforms and hundreds of miles of pipeline are restarted. Last year, Hurricane Ivan was responsible for oil spills in the Gulf, he said. Paskewich dismissed suggestions by an environmental advocacy group that satellite photos showed some 7,000 square miles of oil floating in the Gulf, saying numerous flyovers revealed only minor sheening. .... The MMS estimated that one-third of the Gulf of Mexico’s 4,000 platforms and two-thirds of the Gulf’spipelines had been in the direct path of eitherHurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. These storms destroyed 46 platforms and damaged 20 others. To date, 100 damaged pipelines and 211 minor pollution incidents involving less than 500 barrels of oil have been reported to MMS (Minerals Management Service, 2005). Nearly 50 oil spills were reported in the near-shore environment (Figure 1), including spills from Meraux, LA (Murphy Oil Corporation) in the metropolitan area of New Orleans, as well as coastal areas at the mouth of the Mississippi River at Empire (Chevron Oil), Pilot Town (Shell Oil), and Cox Bay (Bass Enterprises Production Company). Figure 2 shows the location of the spills in the southern Louisiana coastal areas. ..... www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/issue_pdfs/19_2/19.2_cs_pine.pdf