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This doesnt really affect new orleans
Originally posted by harryhaller
S+F OP, this post is really good.
As to the subject, i can say my heart is broken. It's just too big and too ugly, the implications of this are VAST.
What did New Orleans ever do to anyone? That's what i want to know.
Originally posted by loam
New Technique Holds Hope for Oil Spill Cleanup
Among the various weapons employed against the gushing crude has been the distribution of chemical dispersants on the water’s surface to break down the oil. The new approach involves the deployment of the dispersants underwater, near the source of the leaks. Officials said that in two tests, that method appeared to be keeping crude oil from rising to the surface. They said that the procedure could be used more frequently once evaluations of its impact on the deepwater ecology were completed.
Those experiments at the wellhead of the collapsed Deepwater Horizon oil rig were just one sign of the frantic efforts to contain...[the spill.]
This approach actually makes me VERY nervous. Under these circumstances, how will they truly asses the impact on the deepwater ecology?
Isn't the urge to just "bury" the problem great here? Is this a "cosmetic" fix that does little to stem the devastation? I wonder what these chemicals are?
:shk:
Originally posted by alchemist2012
This doesnt really affect new orleans
Originally posted by harryhaller
S+F OP, this post is really good.
As to the subject, i can say my heart is broken. It's just too big and too ugly, the implications of this are VAST.
What did New Orleans ever do to anyone? That's what i want to know.
Originally posted by niteboy82
reply to post by alchemist2012
It will have an impact on New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — The US government banned Sunday for 10 days all commercial and recreational fishing in parts of the Gulf of Mexico due to health risks from the massive crude oil spill.
"NOAA is restricting fishing for a minimum of ten days in federal waters most affected by the BP oil spill, largely between Louisiana state waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River to waters off Florida?s Pensacola Bay. The closure is effective immediately," said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Originally posted by unityemissions
DOes anyone have a reliable source that can verify how much oil is beneath the Deep Horizon wellhead? I don't know much abou oil drilling. One poster on another site commented that 400 billion barrels are thought to be in the gulf coast. Is this correct?! If so, could all of this potentially leak out if efforts to cap this sucker fail?! If not, what perentage is in this general area which could be spilled? I'm just trying to get an estimate for how huge of a scale this disaster is, and can become. Thanks.