Oil arrival puts Alabama's Dauphin Island on spill frontline

[jpak]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6516I220100602?type=domesticNews

Teams of workers in protective boots and gloves scoured Alabama's Dauphin Island on Wednesday for washed up tar balls and tar patties that have put the 14-mile-long resort in the front line of the state's fight against the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The invading oil debris, heralding the arrival on Alabama's coast of parts of the huge, fragmented oil slick spewing from BP's blown-out undersea well, started coming ashore late on Tuesday on the inhabited barrier beach island.

Dauphin Island residents, who are used to hurricanes roaring out of the Gulf, were waking up to the reality that they would not escape the impact of the six-week-old spill which had so far mostly affected Louisiana to the southwest.

"It's something we'd rather not have happen, but we all knew the possibility was there, and the island, as a people, are very resilient. We will find a way to work through this process," Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier said.

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[nashville_brook]

1. kicking for visibility.

[NNadir]

2. After all these years of ignoring dangerous fossil fuels, you suddently seem instaneously interested

in them.

All of a sudden, where the was "atom of tritium found somewhere on earth!!!!!!!" hysteria, you suddenly seem to have discovered that oil is bad.

I'm not impressed.

Was it not so long ago that you were having a shit fit claiming that a picocurie of tritium under a building was the end of the world?

All of a sudden...

I suspect that the point of all this invented concern involves the fact that you have spent years worshipping at the altar of Lovins and suddenly trying to throw a red (and very oily) herring in a slick discovery that oil is, um, one of the three worst threats to humanity, the others being coal and the dangerous natural gas that our anti-nukes so love with all their http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.phpaz=view_all&address=115x246887">"Drill, Baby, Drill! rhetoric here.

Fracture baby fracture.

To my mind, the mindless distractions from what should be the goal of all humanity, including that now currently living, represented by year after year after year after year after year of comlacency generating "solar will save us" and "wind will save us" delusional blabbering, while railing insipidly against the world's largest, by source, of climate change free energy, is responsible for this slick, not that the anti-nukes have a cell of responsibility in their bodies.

Thanks for the slicked sudden new found concern. I'm not slipping on Amory Lovins pals sudden concern. They've been at this crap for more than 40 years, for much of which, something might have been done.

http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Amory+B.+Lovins">Famous Anti-nuke Amory Lovins describes his revenue sources:

Mr. Lovins’s other clients have included Accenture, Allstate, AMD, Anglo American, Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America, Baxter, Borg-Warner, BP, HP Bulmer, Carrier, Chevron, Ciba-Geigy, CLSA, ConocoPhillips, Corning, Dow, Equitable, GM, HP, Invensys, Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi, Monsanto, Motorola, Norsk Hydro, Petrobras, Prudential, Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch/Shell, Shearson Lehman Amex, STMicroelectronics, Sun Oil, Suncor, Texas Instruments, UBS, Unilever, Westinghouse, Xerox, major developers, and over 100 energy utilities. His public-sector clients have included the OECD, the UN, and RFF; the Australian, Canadian, Dutch, German, and Italian governments; 13 states; Congress, and the U.S. Energy and Defense Departments.

Have a slick evening, slick.

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[Kolesar]

5. CCheney...eom

[jpak]

6. tells us again about the molten salt breeder reactor that eats CO2 you invented

but i forget

you made it up

:rofl:

[Kolesar]

4. The American public has paid several times when hurricanes nailed vacation homes on Dauphin Is.

PBS NOW did a good segment on the story. The residents and contractors have political power. The federal government declares "disaster" and rebuilds their vacation resort for them.