Posted on 10/04/2021 7:33:55 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A unified command consisting of Beta Offshore Amplify Energy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response (CDFW-OSPR) is responding to the oil spill first reported Saturday approximately 3 miles off the coast of Newport Beach, California, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The National Transportation Safety Board says it is now investigating the matter.
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So it's possible that a Chinese cargo ship "accidently hit the oil pipeline with its anchor.
Why do I have a gut feeling this was done intentionally. Wasn’t there an oil spill somewhere also in the states not too long ago? Environmental wackos are on a oil spree!!
A backed-up port probably isn’t good for China, either.
China would NEVER create chaos with the U.S.!
Too bad: Some of Southern California’s most beautiful beaches are right there.
This will also give fodder to the “eliminate all oil” lefties that are prominent in the state.
That gasoline prices may climb here in the west? How convenient.
All the newly minted Democrats in Orange County are going to have a field day with this mess.
Roughly 20% of what an Olympic swimming pool holds.
Spill 126,000 gal
Olympic pool 660,000 gal
Why do I have a gut feeling this was done intentionally
I don’t believe in coincidences, too convenient for the wackos.
The damage is being deliberately exaggerated for green propaganda effect.
Can ocean magically absorb it, eventually?
Funny how we had a massive oil spill under Obama too…just saying how odd it is.
Not much considering. The media last evening was absolutely hysterical, as if this was the end of the world disaster. I think more oil than that seeps out of offshore cracks in the seabed every year.
on-line reporters are stating the damage done to the beaches is permanent and they will never be the same.
I say that’s baloney! I recall a number of years seeing a report in a scientific journal of a beach covered in oil from a tanker accident (don’t recall location). It was an uninhabited area and nothing was done to remove it. Months later, I think it was seven or eight, it was pristine clean thanks to mother nature. I suppose wave action and tides did the cleaning. The story had before and after aerial photos. Since then I have heard similar stories. We love in a fantastic world whose very design sustains itself.
No one is blaming the President or complaining he isn’t doing enough. Same with every other crisis. What changed?
yes, this “catastrophic” spill of 144,000 gallons of crude equates to a drop in the bucket that is the ocean...
they had to use a file photo of a duck covered in oil...
sheesh.
can we get the news and lose the hyperbole
Tiny spill ... much hullabaloo about not much. Is it refined oil? Bunker? Crude? Each type has more or less volatiles and sets the severity of the spill.
Facts never get in the way of a commie agenda.
Your point seems well taken re natural seepage into the ocean
https://www.livescience.com/5422-natural-oil-spills-surprising-amount-seeps-sea.html
While the amount of oil and its ultimate fate in such manmade disasters is well known, the effect and size of natural oil seeps on the ocean floor is murkier. A new study finds that the natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, Calif., have leaked out the equivalent of about eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills over hundreds of thousands of years.
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This was an interesting research article on drilling actually reducing natural seepage. Something you’d never find in the MSM.
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/1999/011337/oil-and-gas-seepage-ocean-floor-x000b-reduced-oil-production
Oil is food for these guys, so yes, it will eventually magically go away just like a big plate of fried chicken in front of me.
http://www.actforlibraries.org/species-of-oil-eating-bacteria/
Pseudomonas, flavobacterium, arthrobacter, and azotobacter are common bacterial types that “eat” oil. These bacteria occur naturally at an estimated 0.1 percent of the bacterial population. Zooglea, Alkaligenes, Frateuria, Putida, and Aeruginosa are five of the pseudomonas family that have been discussed in oil eating bioremediation.
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