Louisiana Spill: Big Oil's Chernobyl? - IBD - Investors.com
The damaged rig in the Gulf, one of 3,000 offshore oil and gas platforms operating in the Gulf of Mexico that survived Hurricanes Katrina and Rita without major damage, is said to be leaking 210,000 gallons of oil per day. This is serious — but rare.[Another problem with distributed power generation: distributed security issues] - Green Blog - NYTimes.com
The National Academy of Sciences reported in 2003 that more than 60% — roughly 47 million gallons — of crude released in North American waters each year comes from natural seepage from the sea floor. Only 1% comes from offshore oil and gas development.
In fact, offshore drilling can reduce this natural seepage by extracting crude and relieving geological pressure from below.
Meanwhile, other forms of energy get an environmental pass.
In just the last two weeks, thieves have struck two schools in the San Francisco area removing about $50,000 worth of panels and related equipment.The Farmer wants a break (and a wife) « The Daily Bayonet
I just came across a recent news item bemoaning the fact (it was the Sydney Morning Alarmist Herald, so they weren’t happy about it) that a majority of Australian farmers are sceptical of climate change and don’t think it is going to affect them in their lifetimes. Which is not to say that they don’t think they are affected by climate itself, almost all of them mention that their biggest challenge is the drought, they are just canny enough to realise that a prolonged drought on the world’s driest continent (after Antarctica) probably isn’t much of a headline.Tim Ball: Climate Policies Based on Distorted Temperatures
Then I found another recent headline from the UK, and funnily enough, the majority of British farmers don’t think they are being affected by climate change, either.
Recipe For Disastrous Policies
Governments continue to impose rules and regulations based on incorrect climate science using their own manipulated data. They control the research in-house or through funding and are the source of the data that is poorly measured and modified inappropriately, always to create warming. Government scientists are caught between practicing true skeptical science and buying, without question, the government position.
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Obama's Katrina ... The OPA 1990 gives the president control of oil spills, because congress deemed only the president could must resources quick enough to contain spills.
I guess wait 12 days was what the law prescribed.
Oil spills are treated as routine but don't you dare build a new high tech nuclear plant with 0.01% probability for a Chernobyl style nuclear accident that might cause background radiation invisible to the eye and hard to detect, but allegedy dangerous and so on. People like to die from things they understand, and a spill is something they know from their own household.
Keep on drilling, keep on burning coal and stop all nuclear developments ASAP. That was the message of Greenpeace et al BEFORE the CO2 scare came upon us. Now they are against nukes AND against fossil fuels, leaving only the sun and wind, and who knows how long until that becomes a "crisis".
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