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Visitors today experience the spectacular scenery and wildlife of Prince William Sound and the North Gulf of Alaska. However, one of the most stunning revelations of Trustee Council-funded monitoring over the last ten years is that Exxon Valdez oil persists in the environment and in places, is nearly as toxic as it was the first few weeks after the spill.
.... Following the oil and its impacts over the past 20 years has changed our understanding of the long-term damage from an oil spill. Because of the scope and duration of the restoration program, lingering oil and its effects were discovered and tracked. As a result, we know that risk assessment for future spills must consider what the total damages will be over a longer period of time, rather than only the acute damages in the days and weeks following a spill. Beaches in the Gulf of Alaska are unique because of their composition and structure, and the lack of waves and winter storm action. This, along with the colder temperatures, is partly why oil has persisted and remained toxic here. The potential for long-term damage remains wherever oil persists after an oil spill, whether it is buried in the ocean bottom, marshes, mangroves, or other habitats that are not dynamic.
here's a few:
Mexico is angry the USA wants to ban their illegals so they caused it.
Radical environmentalists wanted to stop further oil drilling so they caused it.
OPEC wanted to drive up the price of crude by stopping oil drilling in the USA so they caused it.
Al Gore invested heavily in environmental clean up companies and technology so he caused it.( This one is actually possible)
He did not say the oil spill was natural! Quit lying! Dang! How I hate the leftists! Such damn liars!
Yes you've been tuned to hate anybody who calls out on one of your heroes, much less "the leftists" like me. Anyway, not that it would matter:
“The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there,” Limbaugh said. “It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is.”
Diseases and death are natural too. I wonder if the fat limpbag and his sheeple let the nature take their course when it comes to those. Or may be, we've found the perfect place to dispose of spent nuclear fuel... Limpbag's backyard! That too is natural!
I suppose Nature will break the oil down over time--but how many decades or centuries? The gulf area has not fully recovered from the devastation of Katrina and damage from several other hurricanes---people need to work and fishing, oil and tourism are major industries.
I occasionally listen to Neal Boortz, the Libertarian complement to conservative radio hosts, he believes the drilling should continue--cites an incident in 1969 as the worst for this area. '40 years'---if you look at it that way I suppose so.
In the back of my mind is a nagging fear--OK--we pull ourselves together and cope with this---BP pays billions, every vendor and subcontractor--anyone involved---pay billions---their insurance companies and the insurance companies companies pay, that is---and the government does what it can---not sure what that is at this point----and then it happens again in a year, 5 years---not so sure the Gulf states can continue to bounce back?
And man is not the only cause of oil spills. Here's information about a totally natural "oil spill":
The problem with Rush mentality is that all other rights are subordinated to oil interests.
The problem with our govt policy and laws is that there's little incentive to do the right thing or go the extra mile being responsible. It's more cost effective to cut corners and operate irresponsibly in the eyes of many in leadership positions (commercial and govt). There are no meaningful consequences for those enabled to pass the costs of their mistakes onto all others. That would be the problem of a government who has deferred to the wishes of commerce to the extreme of abrogating themselves of all responsibility.
Congress did this? Obama? Decades of wrong headed governance did this, and we need to get this attitude evicted from governance once and for all.
Not only that, but there are many areas in the ocean where oil naturally bubbles up from the ocean floor.
8 barrels per year hardly compares to the mass scale gross negligence of boys pretending the be men. Childish garbage passing for conservative= an embarrassment to manhood, and to what was formerly the conservative party.
8 barrels per year could have just as easily been the site of choice by responsible companies who manage to get the job done without creating an epic disaster. So let us count those few with immaculate safety records, with the long term commitment to due diligence, as HONORABLE businessmen.
Limbaugh has downplayed the need for a massive cleanup, saying that oil in the ocean was a natural phenomenon and as a result the ocean would take care of cleaning itself.
"You do survive these things. I'm not advocating don't care about it hitting the shore or coast and whatever you can do to keep it out of there is fine and dandy, but the ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and was left out there," Limbaugh said. "It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is."
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