Posted on 07/05/2009 5:13:38 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Radarsat-1 satellite image with detail insets showing oil slicks in Gulf of Mexico following passage of Hurricane Katrina. Image taken on September 2, 2005.
Whats In The Photo:
Satellite radar image map showing oil apparently leaking from multiple sources, in a cluster of offshore platforms, on September 1, 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. Approximate center of source area 29.421989N/89.500911W (NAD27). Oil slicks are dark patches; platforms are very bright spots. Large bright areas are land.
Had they read the two studies I started out the posting with, they'd see that I took into account for small spills. Small spills from offshore oil rigs are way less frequent, and are also less in quantity than the seepages that come from mother nature.
Offshore drilling causes less damage to the environment than liberalism.
Remember Mexico and America are different. Mexico is not going to care about the enviornment like America is and has done through out oil companies.
Who knows if it’s the libs; the photos could be doctored and/or fake.
Florida offshore is dying due to environmental laws. The environmental field don’t really know what they are doing. They are making stuff up as they go along especially since nothing is really about the good of the earth like they like to pretend it is. It’s more about money an power. Big con job I would say. They are telling you to let everything go natural and wild. Not a good thing for the earth if you really think about it.
LOL
Yeah. Especially if you consider those wildfires in california a few years back.
Controlled burns could’ve prevented that.
Right up there with “Chem Trails” and Bigfoot.
Yes Mexico will drill for oil, the USA will not.
Who knows if it’s the libs or republicans; the photos could be doctored and/or fake.
Yes there was an interruption of oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico but the rigs are back in service today. New Orleans whom government is "restoring" is not.
Our public servants have been taking about an energy plan to make the USA selfsuffent since 1973. Of course our masters never set a date for this project to be completed. .
Florida offshore is dying due to environmental laws. Tampa has long term contracts for Indonesian high quality coal, yet the same quality coal is located in Southern Utah. California all most bankrupt, but oh no drilling off the coast..
And now Cap & Trade
Thank you republicans & democrats !
Americans In Name Only
It was so bad, I didn’t read a single report of oil on the beaches on the Gulf Coast of Alabama and Mississippi.
You need to make a distinction between oil and natural gas because the GOM produces enough of each that a Katrina storm will affect both.
In the case of oil, there is a very large world market for oil that will respond to an GOM interruption plus the strategic reserve can be drawn on. Except, Katrina took out a lot of the refining capacity as well.
With natural gas, there is no world market, or the building of a world market in natural gas is just beginning, so a GOM interruption creates havoc with gas and electricity prices.
As for drilling the eastern gulf, you need to look at S 774 aka National Energy Security Act of 2009 aka senate energy bill witch is the senate's companion bill to House's cap and trade bill.
Its not known whether the drilling part of the bill will make it thru but it opens a very large chunk of the eastern gulf to drilling by reducing the 125 mile limit that exists now down to 45 miles. Plus it opens the Destin Dome, which is a natural gas formation about 25 miles south of Tallahassee.
Plus, S774 provides for the creation of a strategic reserve of gasoline and other refined product to deal with storms that take down the refineries.
You are right.
————the photos could be doctored and/or fake.—————
Let’s assume for a second that the pics are as real as anything.
That doesn’t hurt the argument I’ve presented one whit.(it doesn’t go either way)
It’s no secret that salt water is highly corrosive, that’s why none of this oil reached the shores.
The oceans eat oil just like it eats anything else due to it’s corrosive nature.
Yeah, exactly. It gets leaked out of pipes and tanks onshore.
Nobody that I’ve heard is saying that everything is clean and perfect. Well, except for knee jerking liberals who put out a false caricature strawman that they can then knock down.
Not saying they are or aren’t. Just pointing out the lies of government.
Murphy Oil looks to expand after Katrina oil spill
Monday, March 31, 2008
MERAUX, La. (AP) — The Murphy Oil refinery here wants to expand its operations by building a laboratory on land it bought as part of a $343 million legal settlement stemming from a massive oil spill during Hurricane Katrina.
In January 2007, the refinery agreed to pay an estimated $330 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit involving about 6,500 property owners and renters affected by the spill.
Carl Zornes, a Murphy spokesman, said the actual settlement costs have reached $343 million and are still climbing.
http://www.businessreport.com/news/2008/mar/31/murphy-oil-looks-expand-after-indt1/
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October 10 2005
Personnel from the multi-agency unified command continues to assess, investigate and clean up six major and three medium oil spills caused by damage to facilities by Hurricane Katrina.
More than 800 people from dozens of federal, state and local agencies, as well as industry partners at Chevron, Dynegy, Murphy Oil, Bass Enterprises and Shell Pipeline are involved in the cleanup and investigating 107 minor pollution cases.
The southeast Louisiana oil spill response overview reports 8 million gallons spilled, with 3.1 million gallons recovered and 3.7 million gallons evaporated or dispersed. Recoverable volume remaining is estimated at 1.3 million gallons.
Where did you get these pics?
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