Oil spill will dwarf Exxon Valdez spill, worst than Kuwait oil field fires

[Liberal_in_LA]

Heard on radio today from expert.

:wow: :scared:

[Blue_In_AK]

1. And there's still oil under the rocks over there

in Prince William Sound. The herring fishery never recovered.

[rocktivity]

2. Boil frogs much?

They knew it was this bad all along--they were just letting us know gradually.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[SidDithers]

3. That expert doesn't know his ass from his elbow...

the Kuwait oil fires dumped somewhere in the neighbourhood of 300 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf.

Deepwater Horizon is an unmitigated disaster, but please, people, some accuracy about scale is badly needed.

Sid

[JuniperLea]

4. Well... it's up to 210,000 gallons... A DAY!!!

NEW ORLEANS — Time appeared to be running out Thursday to prevent a disaster that could harm the ecosystem along the Gulf Coast as 210,000 gallons of oil has leaked into the water every day since an oil rig exploded and sank last week.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2010-04-29-oilspillupdate_N.htm


And they are still grasping at straws as to now to handle this.

[SidDithers]

6. 200,000 gallons per day FOR 4 YEARS will give you 300,000,000 gallons...

I'm not minimizing the Deepwater Horizon, as I've posted many times. But some posters have no fucking clue just how big the biggest oil spills were. Comparing Deepwater Horizon to Kuwait or Ixtoc 1, in terms of volume spilled, is way premature. Comparisons to Exxon Valdez are becoming more accurate, especially if it takes more than 2 months to drill the relief wells and get the leaking well capped, but even Exxon Valdez is only about 30th in terms of biggest oil spills.

Environmentally, Deepwater has the potential to become a hugely damaging spill, because of it's location and proximity to coastal areas.

Hyperbole, however, is in nobody's interest.

Sid

[JuniperLea]

7. C'mon, Sid...

Do you think I actually believe the "official story" about the amount of oil that's escaping? They bumped the number, but I'm betting it's still way low:)

[SidDithers]

8. Time will tell...

At this point, capping the well is an engineering problem. I believe that there are very smart people who are working long hours, and are genuinely trying to mitigate the impact of this spill.

Sid

[JuniperLea]

9. I've no doubt this is true...

I'm sure regulators were asleep at the switch, there was no "exit plan" on this well, and the good people who do the actual work are put at unnecessary risk and will bare the brunt of the bad-mouthing. The very people you speak of will be the scape goats.

It's like anything else... it's the government, not the people... it's the head of the banks/investment firms/rating agencies, not the workers.

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