oil spill in China pics

[Neil]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/China-oil-spill/sm/events/wl/20070814_china

[Axiom]

I thought I saw "BP was here", written on the side of the boat.

[Willy The Londoner]

I see no problem here.  The oil will be completly cleared in less than two days as it will turn up in the cooking pans of restuarants and takeaways the world over.


Willy

[ttwjr32]

nothing goes to waste here Willy

[ttwjr32]

read in the paper that the USA is thinking of taking over BP  mmmm that would be interesting to see what would
be different. i worked for the largest oil company in the USA for many years. like i said interesting they just want the oil
refining aspect i would guess

[Paul Todd]

I've just been watching the evening news here and the Chinese have a novel way of cleaning up the oil spill. They spread tons of straw over the oil slick and then have a flotilla of small boats drag it in. By the looks of it , it does an excellent job. They didn't say what they then did with the contaminated straw though, but low tech defiantly works!

[shaun]

Unfortunately I didn't read this but heard it on the radio so I have not evidence to back it up.  It was either BP or a governmental agency that sent several ships out to look for large pockets of oil and clean it up.  They were thinking there should be oil slicks that were miles long and hundreds of feet thick.  I had been thinking of doing the same thing to refine and resell.  I have been in conversation with a few people about it.  Friday I heard on the radio the dispatched ships were reporting that they could not find oil thick enough to siphon out of the ocean.  They said it was breaking up and dissipating.  It seems that mother nature is taking care of it all on her own.  They also went on to say that when considering the magnitude of what is happening that each days worth of oil being spilled into the ocean is minimal.  The analogy they used was putting a drop of oil from an eye dropper into a bath tub full of water.

I don't know how true all of this was but I did find it interesting.  I haven't been able to back any of the up on the internet either.  It seems to be that when the "experts" have predicted the magnitude of disasters that they have almost always over inflated the impact of what was happening.  Mt St. Helen comes to mind.

Food for thought.

[maxx]

Shaun I seen some pictures the other day.Where the oil had come ashore.It has wrecked the coast line.The pictures I seen the oil had collected in the grasses along the banks of the swamps and the bays.

[shaun]

Yes Maxx I agree with that.   There will be damage but I think the news media might be blowing it completely our of proportion for the sake of have some news to report.  If the slicks were as big as they were initially reported things would be much worse.  I have seen oil spills on land before.  It is cleanable.

Let me go back to what I said at the beginning of my post.  It was a report I heard and have no way to back it up yet.

[temur72]

Unfortunately I didn't read this but heard it on the radio so I have not evidence to back it up.  It was either BP or a governmental agency that sent several ships out to look for large pockets of oil and clean it up.  They were thinking there should be oil slicks that were miles long and hundreds of feet thick.  I had been thinking of doing the same thing to refine and resell.  I have been in conversation with a few people about it.  Friday I heard on the radio the dispatched ships were reporting that they could not find oil thick enough to siphon out of the ocean.  They said it was breaking up and dissipating.  It seems that mother nature is taking care of it all on her own.  They also went on to say that when considering the magnitude of what is happening that each days worth of oil being spilled into the ocean is minimal.  The analogy they used was putting a drop of oil from an eye dropper into a bath tub full of water.

I don't know how true all of this was but I did find it interesting.  I haven't been able to back any of the up on the internet either.  It seems to be that when the "experts" have predicted the magnitude of disasters that they have almost always over inflated the impact of what was happening.  Mt St. Helen comes to mind.

Food for thought.

BP has been using Corexit an oil dispersant I believe very close to the well head. This makes the oil heavy which causes it to sink to the ocean floor. This has been taking care of a signifcant amount of oil. Secondly, the gulf is huge, and the well is very deep allowing for the oil to be spread out over a large amount of water, some of which has not reached the surface yet.

Overall I would avoid eating shellf fish from the gulf for the next 4 years or so as most of the toxins are bio accumlative and persistant.  The shellfish will be exposed to the toxins for years

[shaun]

There will be problems but realize what we are all arm chair quarterbacks on the subject.

[Vince G]

I hear all sorts of reports. Oil is on the shore line? NO, just tar balls washing up? No, just a little of it is? They're going to use chemicals to clean it up? NO, they can't use those chemicals? They are lassoing the oil spills in and drawing it up into tanks? NO, they are burning the oil because it's to thin to pickup? If heavy winds come up it will spread it out all over the Gulf? NO, the oil will be broken up and evaporate?

I leave this with the same words I use when the guys working for me have different excuses.... Yeah, Yeah, just clean the F***ing thing up.

[ttwjr32]

well this is a good time to be allergic to all seafood lol!!!1

[shaun]

I can see it now.  The stores will market fried shrimp.  Flavored oil already added.  By Seafood Grillers a division of BP.

[ttwjr32]

well leave it to b/p to come up with that plan