A few tar balls came ashore in Galveston.The natural process of bio-degradation cleaned up most of the oil.
Great article....but makes me wonder that the Globalist Free Traders are probably just as upset with this as the Enviro-Extremists.....dare anyone say that foreign products cause more problems than domestic!
I am sure the Anti-American Collective of Communists (AKA US Chamber of Commerce) probably hates the foreign trade link as much as the enviros
I remember a pretty big slick that they were trying to contain with the floating booms and stuff.
I was pretty young so it’s hard to remember all the details. I thought it was an American rig but you are very likely correct.
It was in the Bay of Campeche and it is still touted as the world’s worst spill. http://topix-trivia.blogspot.com/2008/06/june-3-1979-campeche-oil-spill-off.html
I lived in Corpus Christi, Texas then and recall that the beach was covered with oil from it.
The thing that I recall most vividly was the federal govt coming in with hordes of “workers” who took off an inch or two of the entire beach (miles long) that was oil soaked. What did they do with all that sand? They piled it into large oil-soaked sand dunes away from the beach. The times I went back to the beach afterwards I found that most of the shore birds had built their nests in these dunes and were happily raising families in all that “pollution”.