Posted on 03/20/2021 4:49:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
>>President Biden understands the urgent need to keep this oil in the ground
Oil doesn’t stay put. It’ll seap out naturally. Better to extract it and do away with that “nasty” oil.
On the other hand, the Prince William, AK fisheries have never recovered from the Exxon Valdez spill
Sarcasm? If not you should rethink your position, it’s foolhardy. https://www.soundsalmon.org/
That's not quite accurate. The salmon, cod, and halibut populations have rebounded in Cordova, but herrings have not.
When will the Governor of Louisiana nullify the illegitimate fedguv EO and just let the drilling continue? Inquiring minds want to know. GOPee Delenda Est!
You fish up there?
I am looking at the hundreds of oil tankers torpedoed in WWII. Most of the articles I am seeing are pearl-clutchers describing these tankers as “time bombs” that could start leaking oil and destroy the whole ocean at any point. So, environmental ‘cleanup’ outfits need more money.
Maybe somebody who knows more about it can say, but I have a hard time believing that all of these tankers went down without spilling their cargo.
The greenies results? Chains rusted in the salt water (who knew?), storms and hurricanes scattered the individual tires all over the sea floor.
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I’m guessing that the oil platforms have more fish due to the greater range in depth around the structure. A natural reef probably has a limited depth range, and only attracts fish that like those depths.
Either that, or it is a diabolical scheme between the oil and fishing industries to gather all sorts of fish in one area and then catch them all - and then served to yuppies (is that still a thing?) at fancy New Orleans restaurants.
BTW - if salmon is on the endangered species list - how come it is still on the menu?
Can’t be proved, but a whole lot more methane leaks out of the ocean floor than can ever be produced by man. But that isn’t the point. The point is subjugation of the people by government control.
The Norwegian are getting rich extracting all that oil from the pristine seas around them.
If Norwegians can do it, Americans can surely do too!
In the worst case, hire some Norwegians.
Just so you know, oil has seeped to the surface for millions of years with associated bacteria that readily eats it. Especially in the warm Gulf of Mexico. Steam cleaning the PWS beaches delayed recovery by killing this bacteria, but never the less the sound has recovered.
Abstract and Figures
Eight years of quantitative biological and chemical data have been analyzed for trends in recovery of biota inhabiting beaches in Prince William Sound following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and subsequent shoreline treatments. Sampling has focused on biota at sheltered rocky and mixed-soft sites subjected to three degrees of disturbance (unoiled, oiled but not hot-water washed, and oiled/hot-water washed). Only epibiota on sheltered rocky habitats are covered in this paper. The majority of community dominants survived 1989 on oiled rocky shores that were not high-pressure, hot-water washed. These areas appeared to be nearly completely recovered by 1991, although subsequent monitoring has revealed oscillations in species abundances that exceed those on unoiled beaches.
25 Years after Exxon Valdez Spill, Sea Otters Recovered in Alaska’s Prince William Sound
It took a quarter century, but the northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) living in Alaska’s Prince William Sound have finally recovered from the effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, according to a new report from the U.S.
I think a BIG hole in a ship would tend to 'leak' something!
But then, maybe it all burned up before getting a chance to pollute the shore.
But, Grampa Otto still tells scary stories of the past to rapt little otter ears...
I was wondering because some friends that fish up there say it hasn’t - so you must be reading various articles that say it has, contrary to actual experiences. I do miss fishing there myself but that was too many years ago.
Yes yes, I spent 30 years in the industry fishing from AK to OR in almost all the fisheries.
You know nothing unless you were there then as I was - you only know what you read. So please do not quote various abstracts etc they reflect only the academic gimme-a- grant point of view not the realities, in other words, they are full of crap.
What are they going to tell the people when the “No Gas” signs come out? When they get in a line a mile long for gas, only to have them run out after they spent hours waiting? When they get on social media to complain and then get banned? When they go to the polls to do something about it and see every race lost by a few hundred votes? This is what is coming.
But they came out of the water bug-eyed and indeed produced and broadcast a Travel Channel program showcasing a panorama that turned on its head every environmental superstition against offshore oil drilling. “”
It’d be interesting to see the career trajectories of these persons post production.
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