[SeekAndFind]

Has that area recover in the last 20 years from the effects of that act of vandalism?

I don't know, you tell me.

[MNJohnnie]

Yes, it has.

Perhaps a more apt analogy is "did dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki irreversible damage the environment" No, they did not.

Oil is a natural product of the earth. Not some toxic poison.

1 Volcano does much more temporary environmental damage then all the oil spills in history combined.

The thing the Enviormantalist wackos ignore is that the Environment is a self regulating mechanism that absorbs, dissipates and removes the temporary impact of these sorts of events over time.There is no such thing as "irreversible environmental damage".