More than 1 million gallons of oil leaks into Gulf of Mexico, potentially putting endangered species at risk
More than 1 million gallons of oil leaks into Gulf of Mexico, potentially putting endangered species at risk
Officials have yet to find the source of the oil spill, which has left chunky globules and long slicks near a 67-mile-long pipeline system off the coast of Louisiana.
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“No way to prevent this” says only planet where this regularly happens
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Can't have oil spills if you don't have any oil
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hey I've seen this episode before
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we're sorry
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Just so more people know, South Park was off the mark in their criticism of that. The "We're Sorry" ad campaign was just a form of soft bribery so the media outlets would play softball with their coverage of the disaster.
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oh god i forgot south park did a bit on this. i feel dirty now. was not meant to be a south park reference. just that this shit keeps happening
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What'd ya mean you've seen it before it's brand new!
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Surely the oil executives will be held accountable for destroying everyone's environment...right?
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How do 1 million gallons of oil accidentally leak into the Gulf Of Mexico? Don't the oil companies have valves on their equipment?
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I haven't read the article but sometimes oil cracks out from the actual ocean floor, not valves, and is very hard to plug. Not sure if that's the case here.
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They do, it isn't a million. The article is deliberate sensationalism. If you read the Coast Guard's press releases, you will see they didn't say a million gallons was leaked.
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From the U.S. Coast Guard press release:
Initial engineering calculations indicate potential volume of crude oil that could have been released from the affected pipeline is 1.1 million gallons.
So yeah, no one can go out there with a bucket and measure it, but that's probably a safe estimate.
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But didn't you all see the commercial on TV promoting Oil and Natural gas as being amazing? This is a good thing right? /S
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The inevitable sequel to "drill baby drill" entitled "spill baby spill" was not enjoyed as enthusiastically as the oil companies had hoped.
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Potentially?
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The other oil spills, the garbage, the global warming, the agricultural runoff, and the microplastics already killed >99% of them. So it's quite possible there are not any more (Endangered Species) left in the entire ocean.
So yeah
allegedlyI mean potentially
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That reporter/editor should be fined or charged with this blatant bullshit.
"The U S. Coast Guard said Monday that an estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil has leaked into the Gulf..." and linked the actual press release in that line.
When you actually read the press release, and then lower in the article, it says the amount is actually unknown.
They know how much oil the pipeline holds, which would be around that estimate. It could only be a couple hundred gallons that have actually leaked.
Also they are not even sure where the leak is, so it might not even be the named company's fault.
Yeah oil industry sucks, but this sounds like a fat nothing burger that CBS is pumping for clicks. No wonder no one trusts the media.
(This is a reposted comment from when this bullshit article was posted earlier)
The OP of this repost didn't even have the decency to share the qualifications from inside the article.
They are just as terrible of an attention seeking removed as the writer of the article.
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Sorry. I read your comment quickly and didn’t realize you were criticizing the original writer. I apologize.
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For comparison, this is less than 1% of the deepwater horizon spill, and they've turned off the entire pipeline so there's little danger of it increasing in size.
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The danger, as the article says, is letting them continue to operate in the area. At what point do we say "okay we've nearly totally fucked this place up, find someplace else"
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1% of the largest environmental disaster of all time isn't a great frame of reference.
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Comparing a bad thing to another bad thing that was larger doesn't make the lesser not also still a bad thing. Not that you necessarily think that of course but some people use this as a defense quite often. "Like x person in history killed a million people but I only murdered one why are you so mad at me?!How am I bad!" haha
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Again? Isn't this whole sea contaminated yet? What can possibly still be there?
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Turns out, building your entire economy and financial system on O&G causes problems for the environment, huh?
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Username checks out.
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Thanks. That was helpful.
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Let's fucking goo! Another one! A big boost for Any% world destruction Speedrun.
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Greeeat
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Facebook, the Coast Guard said that oil was "skimmed and sampled" roughly four miles southeast of South Pass, Louisiana on Friday, at which point they retrieved about 210 gallons of "oily-water mixture."
Matt Rota, senior policy director for Healthy Gulf, told CBS affiliate WWL-TV that the amount of oil thought to have spilled could still increase.
NOAA is helping oversee the incident, and the agency's emergency operations coordinator Doug Helton told WWL that it's not necessarily the amount of oil, but its impact, that is of most concern.
Just north of the spill and Plaquemines Parish lies the Chandeleur Islands, where last year, the world's most endangered sea turtle species, the Kemp's Ridley, was found hatching for the first time in three-quarters of a century.
"Continued oil and gas development in the Gulf represents a clear, existential threat to the whale's survival and recovery," a group of 100 scientists said in a letter to the Biden administration last year.
"The government's Natural Resource Damage Assessment on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill estimates that nearly 20% of Gulf of Mexico whales were killed, with additional animals suffering reproductive failure and disease."
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