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After big 1979 spill, a stunning recovery
News-Observer ^
| 6/13/10
| GLENN GARVIN
Posted on 06/17/2010 10:47:52 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
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Apologies if repost. Another example of the audacity of humanity vs. the reality of creation.
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posted on
06/17/2010 10:47:52 AM PDT
by
AT7Saluki
To: AT7Saluki
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posted on
06/17/2010 10:51:23 AM PDT
by
Jaded
(I realized that after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F)
To: AT7Saluki
hopeful and informative.
Articles like this keep me grounded.
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posted on
06/17/2010 10:52:43 AM PDT
by
hoe_cake
To: AT7Saluki
It’s the same as forest fires. The Earth will always replenish itself after a disaster.
To: AT7Saluki
I have been to Prince William Sound in Alaska and toured the area by boat.
You cannot see any signs that an oil-spill took place.
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posted on
06/17/2010 10:55:58 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: Erik Latranyi
walk on the beaches and lift some rocks.
You will see it then.
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posted on
06/17/2010 10:58:41 AM PDT
by
a real Sheila
(NOTHING makes SENSE anymore!)
To: AT7Saluki
The Earth is not fragile.
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posted on
06/17/2010 10:59:54 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: AT7Saluki
This too shall pass, after being milked dry of every possible advantage for every possible politician.
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:02:35 AM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(If Obama doesn't destroy America, she is indestructible.)
To: dfwgator
. .. and it's chock full of more oil than we could possibly use in prolly 10 forevers!
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:04:49 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: AT7Saluki
BTTT. Thanks for the post.
To: Erik Latranyi
The damage done by detergents and steam-cleaning - not oil - to that place was terrible. There are still sterile patches.
But the ‘control’ beach they just left to itself has done really well.
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:06:54 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
To: AT7Saluki
For all of the hazards of an oil spill, it's worth noting that crude oil exists in a natural environment -- which means nature has a way of dealing with this sort of thing.
An oil spill isn't all that much different than a devastating forest fire, when you think about it.
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:07:01 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
To: agere_contra
Very interesting. This may be one reason why a friend of mine in the logging business tells me that they don’t re-plant trees where he works. They simply clear-cut an area, strip the limbs off the pine trees right there, and leave the branches and pine cones behind to re-seed the area naturally.
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:09:24 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
To: AT7Saluki
Crude oil is all natural and biodegradable.
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:10:02 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: mojitojoe; Smokin' Joe; Black Agnes
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:17:03 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: agere_contra
Post 11: interesting! And hopeful.
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:18:17 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: Moonman62
True. It’s no accident that there are bacteria that can live off crude oil.
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:19:23 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
To: AT7Saluki
To: AT7Saluki
But you get up into wetlands, where you're cleaning up shrubs and sea grasses, and it's far more difficult.
Actually, grasses are pretty good about soaking up oil so fast it doesn't have time to get very far. I remember reading about a tanker truck that overturned near "sensitive wetlands" on its way to the refinery. By the time emergency vehicles got there, the oil that had spilled into the swamp was gone. Someone on the scene broke off a phragmites reed from a nearby clump, and there was the oil, it had been sucked up into the hollow part of the stem just like a drinking straw.
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posted on
06/17/2010 11:26:46 AM PDT
by
Ellendra
(Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
To: AT7Saluki
Makes me think of Mt. St. Helens. It was completely desolate after the big explosion. But now a lot of plants have re-started.
To me it’s a theology lesson. God’s life-giving love breaks through wherever and whenever it possibly can.
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