The oil spill cleanup illusion

[Shannon Dosemagen]

This article was being shared around yesterday. I thought some on these lists would find it interesting: https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/oil-spill-cleanup-illusion

[Scott Eustis]

"Nor are the numbers any better for small marine spills (smaller than 7,950 liters). This year, York University researchers discovered that offshore oil and gas platforms reported a total of 381 small spills between 1997 and 2010. Only 11 spills mentioned the presence of seabirds, yet it only takes a dime-sized blotch of oil in cold water to kill a bird."

I would draw an analogy:  Facilities produce tons of cancer-causing wastes, but these facilities never cause anyone to have cancer.  Even if they happen to be in the parishes with the highest rate of death from cancer. 

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Shannon Dosemagen <shannon....@gmail.com> wrote:

This article was being shared around yesterday. I thought some on these lists would find it interesting: https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/oil-spill-cleanup-illusion

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[Scott Eustis]

also, only 381 spills?  that's about 20% of an annual rate for the Gulf...

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[Flying Solutions]

I found this interesting 

http://www.livescience.com/5422-natural-oil-spills-surprising-amount-seeps-sea.html

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, Shannon Dosemagen <shannon....@gmail.com> wrote:

This article was being shared around yesterday. I thought some on these lists would find it interesting: https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/oil-spill-cleanup-illusion

[Scott Eustis]

USF oceanography are the experts on gulf oil seeps, they monitor them from SAR (radar)  and also from the deep as part of ECOGIG

so they are often called in spill cases where the company uses the "natural seep" defense --like BP did

here's their review paper on seeps, Oscar Garcia-Pineda is the expert

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JC011062/full

he s now a consultant, naturally

http://watermapping.com/

he used to have a kmz of natural seeps in the gulf on his staff page....not that's private info, i guess

here's an interview on the deep part of natural seeps w dr macdonald

https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2016/03/03/5_i_macdonald_fsu_edit.mp3

[Scott Eustis]

i'm writing a report on sheens in the Gulf

many sheens seems unrelated to a platform, out in the water, and are reported by fishermen or platforms trying to ensure they aren't stuck with the blame.

they are reported with no responsible party.  this is about, let's say an average of about 35% of reports (I count about  2200 total reports of gulf oil spills per year, depending on what you count as the "Gulf"). still working on the precise numbers. 

unattached sheens could be from the 900+ gulf seeps, but many of the unattached sheens are not in the known seep locations. 

They could be pipelines underneath (sometimes we can cross reference the BOEM data) other times they could be from passing vessels.  

it's slimy out there.

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[Margie Vicknair-Pray]

Sigh. Sometimes I want to just move. But there's no other planet close enough. ...and the greed-driven sociopaths would follow, anyway.

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[Liz Barry]

haha Margie! 

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