Quite awful, you would think there would be a way from preventing this by now.
LA CORUNA, Spain – One of the world’s worst environmental disasters was feared to be under way as the crippled oil tanker Prestige split in two and began sinking off Spain’s north-west coast.
CNN’s Al Goodman reported that all that was showing was the battered bow section of the Prestige about 200 kilometres (130 miles) off the coastline in Atlantic waters 3,600 metres (11,880 feet) deep.
The rear section of the Prestige earlier went down taking much of the 24,000 tonnes of oil in its tanks with it, a spokesman for the Dutch salvage company Smit Salvage said.
Environmental group WWF had previously warned that if all the fuel oil leaked, it would be one of the largest oil leaks in the world – about twice as big as the Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska in 1989.
The Bahamian-flagged tanker, carrying 70,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, ran into trouble off the northwest coast of Spain during a violent storm last Wednesday when one of its tanks was punctured due to unknown causes and around 5,000 tonnes of oil flowed out.
Spanish officials – who have been trying to clean up oil that has already spilled from the tanker over the last six days – scrambled to protect the coast of northwestern Spain where fishing is the primary industry.
The clean-up effort, they speculated, might take as long as four years
Re: Re: One of the world's worst environmental disasters underway: major oil spill
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Stop using petroleum products. It would solve several problems at once. :)
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Your exactly right but I think we're still 20 years away from that happening. More funding should be given to research alternative fuel sources rather than to the military, but I guess you need to keep the Defense Contractors and Oil Industry happy.
Would'n't it be neat to put our heads together and protect wildlife..and at the same time recover the oil? so it doesn't cause harm in the natural enviorment?
Be really neat if Iraq and Middle East countries dive in to solve the problem.
Hey.. good way of making friends? Maybe? Helping each other just for the sake of helping?
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Here's a better alternative: www.segway.com
I heard that you will soon be able to purchase at Amazon.
More American ingenuity.
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dude.. I am NOT riding that thing during a blizzard on the highway..:) or just on the highway. and god forbid if you lose your way and wind up in a ghetto..cant even lock the doors and speed away..
