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To: Titanites
I think your accusation that BP "poured 2 days worth of oil into the Arctic" deserves a little more follow-up because you leave the impression that there is massive destruction of tundra going on.

Not only were you wrong about the volumes spilled, but you need to understand that you can go to any WalMart parking lot in the country, on any given day, and find more spilled oil there than has been spilled in 98% of the spills on the North Slope of Alaska. The operators there are working under very tight restrictions.

Even very small amounts of contaminants spilled receive attention. The vehicles operated there are required to have drip pans placed under them, when parked and running or not, to catch any drips off the engine, radiator, or exhaust. And quite a few of the larger trucks have drips pans placed permanently to catch anything even while driving. Do you personally make that effort to save the environment?

Any oil that reaches the tundra is recovered. All of it. The oil that couldn't be recovered on the surface is recovered by digging up the soil and remediating it. Strict testing requirements are in place and the oil companies, along with the Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation conduct follow-up tests to ensure no contamination of the tundra remains.

So for all the oil BP has "poured into the Arctic", there is none still there.

70 posted on 08/14/2006 2:03:12 PM PDT by Titanites
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To: Diggadave

Post #61 was meant to be addressed to you.


71 posted on 08/14/2006 2:04:51 PM PDT by Titanites
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