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California Governor Declares State Of Emergency As Santa Barbara Oil Spill Worsens Dramatically
What was originally thought to be around 21,000 barrels is now over 105,000 barrels of oil spilled on to the pristine beaches of Santa Barbara County. On Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Santa Barbara County to free up resources to respond to the spill, which as the following horrible images show, is far worse than it initially appeared. After seeing all of that, it is no wonder that OilPrice.com's Charles Kennedy believes this latest oil pipeline spill could galvanize environmentalist opposition.
Santa Barbara area oil and gas facilities
But the images of the cleanup are awful...
Source: LA Times, The Telegraph
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After seeing all of that, it is no wonder that OilPrice.com's Charles Kennedy believes this latest oil pipeline spill could galvanize environmentalist opposition.
A pipeline in California broke and spilled oil into the Pacific Ocean on May 19.
Oil washed up on the shores in Santa Barbara County with the slick extending an estimated 4 miles. While data is preliminary, the pipeline may have spilled 21,000 gallons, or 500 barrels, perhaps even more. For now, it is unclear what caused the pipeline to rupture.
The pipeline, owned by Plains All American Pipeline, was constructed in 1991 and has a daily throughput of about 150,000 barrels. “Plains deeply regrets this release has occurred and is making every effort to limit its environmental impact. Our focus remains on ensuring the safety of all involved. No injuries have been reported at this time,” the company said in a statement released early on May 20.
Plains All American is a midstream company that owns and operates pipelines, oil and gas storage facilities, and rail terminals. It operates several crude oil storage facilities in California along with the implicated Las Flores to Gaviota pipeline that runs through Santa Barbara County. But it has a much larger footprint in Texas and Louisiana, as well as Alberta, where it has a wider network of crude oil pipelines and storage facilities.
Plains All American says on its website that it “committed to designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining its pipelines in a safe and reliable manner, and to meeting or exceeding safety standards.”
The oil sheen in the Pacific Ocean evokes memories of the catastrophic 1969 disaster resulting from a blowout of an offshore oil platform owned by Union Oil Company. The accident led to 3 million gallons of oil escaping into the ocean.
The incident was a momentous one as it sparked the modern environmental movement and contributed to the passage of several federal environmental laws a few years later, including the Clean Water Act. California has not allowed drilling within its maritime limits since then, and has fought drilling at the federal level as well.
The latest pipeline spill will no doubt give more ammo to pipeline opponents, perhaps rekindling arguments over the Keystone XL pipeline. But for now it is too early to tell if there will be any other policy implications.
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Mother Nature will clean that sucker right up.
given a couple of hundred years
Political spin.
See all that free oil we gave you?
RIPS
"Free if you pick up"
Oooooooh, another chance for an emergency tax! You know you want to Jerry!
oh imagine that... "officials" underestimated initial damage estimates ... i'm shocked !
Cleanup JOBZ!!! And then, they can build a railroad down the coast, and have Uncle Warrens Choo Choo haul it!! Think of all the JOBZ!!
This is TERRIBLE because it threatens the exclusive beachfront property of the Santa Barbara elite.....a TRUE disaster for sure......
Does the “broken window” theory apply to oil spills? ;-)
Looney
P.S. This is a true shovel-ready project.
I think they're going to need more Home Depot buckets.
I am Chumbawamba.
CA can fix this - just ban the use of fossil fuels by its citizens! No gas, no plastic, etc.
Govy can fix EVERYTHING!
Regards,
Cooter
Buy Nalco Company shares!!!!!
Maker of Corexit.
Tell Gov Moonbeam that Oil & Water don't mix, Oh Wait!
Those "pristine beaches" had what the locals called "tar" on them, the first time I saw Santa Barbara (late seventies).
The oil has been there forever. Pumping it out, will eventually remove this problem.
Santa Barbara Oil Spill: Sometning is not right with this spill
I drive past this twice a day. Doesnt look like that to me, Im guessing those are the only 2 animals they could find covered in oil. Oil has always seaped out of the ocean floor in this area.
"All swiming with the Dolphins is cancelled until further notice."
They're going to need a hell of a lot more of those orange Home Depot "Let's DO this" buckets.
Someone tell me where they're tossing those things. I figure I can hose them down with some Corexit and resell them on eBay.
Capitalism - FUCK YEAH!
Don't forget the high-speed rail to nowhere which would have obviated all this.
cynical sarcasm
depressing
This disaster ain’t squat until you break out the fouled baby sea otters.
OK Santa Barbara Libs.. what’s your poison?.. leaking pipelines, exploding tank cars or ,,, maybe some environmentally sound Lithium Musk oil batteries and PV roof cells.
Keep Calm & Frack On.....
Fracking Frackers! GRRRRRRR!
"Well, frack the frackin' frackers, I say!"*
"Would you like a little whine with those frackers?"
*Note:
1.) There was no fracking involved with this spill.
2.) The complaint is about a substance that was in the gorund that is now on the ground and will if left alone go back into the ground.
3.) This is a perfect excuse to call for the execution of the entire California Coastal Commission, (by immersion in crude oil I would think).
Anytime you fly into Santa Barbara, look out over the ocean and you will see the peacock sheen of oil.
It naturally seeps out of the ocean floor. There are tar balls (look like chucnks of asphalt) all over the beaches.
That $400/night room at the Fes Parker includes all the tar balls you can collect.
It's been that way before we humans got there.
"Estado de Emergencia," is what he meant to say.
Go long on Home Depot.
Bullish!
So pumping all the oil out of the Gulf will fix the fallout from the Macando disaster?
There are a lot of terrible accidents between the initial drill insertion and depletion of the field.
There are always small tar balls on the beaches - most likely from existing drilling and seepage - but nothing like these pictures.
This is a disaster for that part of the coastline.
AAAAAHHHH, just sprinkle about 2 million gallons of Corexit on it....problem solved!
Kaiser, indeed "Tar Feet"
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=2603
"It seems every beachgoer in Santa Barbara has a good tar story"
there's even a song about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F46w1M5A1E
The Santa Barabara Channel is clearn that it ever was in history. Oil has been seeping into the ocean there for millions of years fouling the beachs. The oil companies capped all the natural leaks making it pretty nice to hang out on the beaches. Forty years ago a stroll on the beach in Santa Baraba always resulted in black feet. Too bad about this spill.
Santa Barbara Oil Spill: Dramatic Images
I grew up in Huntington Beach in 70's. Would frequently get tar balls on the feet / in between the toes.
Santa Barbara coast will clean this spill up with or without man's help.
Like the BP blowout?
...so judging from the gist of this thread and all the upvotes, then are these truths?
- oil spills are a natural occurrence;
- the response to this is a man-made crisis, potentially for monetary/political gain (as the Gulf crisis obviously was);
- and nature can take care of this stuff all on it's own, even if the problem is man-made, as oil is a natural product?
If so, then I learned something today.
Thanks again, ZH.
At the very worst, man is a bad case of acne on the dermatology of the earth.. it will get over us sooner or later unless we get nutso with that nuke stuff and even then, the globe will be around after the half-life’s expire,.
You are correct. I refer you to George Carlin's comic skit on Earth Day / Plastic. Very True view of how Earth works.
Oil naturally seeps from the ocean floor or up through the sand.
Ocean waves / swells naturally push the tar balls onto the shore through tidal movements.
These days, Orange County beaches use tractors to sweep trash from the sand surface (becuase stupid humans litter) and that action clears beaches of any naturally occuring tar balls.
Reminder - LA are has a tourist attraction called La Brea Tar Pits which is simply a huge open tar pit where crude oil is at ground level similar to a pond or lake.
NoVa
We are abusing and killing this earth, for how long ????
Other way around boss. The Earth is 4 billion years old. We are just here because they Earth wants plastic. Our days are numbered.
Regards,
Cooter
+100 for George Carlin skit reference
http://enenews.com/mysterious-black-mold-being-found-fish-pacific-northw...
Yes, our days are seriously numbered. The numbers show by 2025 everyone in North America will have some form of cancer, and every child born will be autistic - per the CDC.
We are at the tail end of humanity walking this Earth, and it is going to be an ugly sight to watch.
"...Many reports of unusual rotting sores, growths, bumps, cancer..."
In Washington D.C.? We already knew that.
"...Yes, our days are seriously numbered. The numbers show by 2025 everyone in North America will have some form of cancer, and every child born will be autistic - per the CDC..."
It's called natural selection - the earth has de-selected the current crop of shaved apes from future gene pools. It's an ingenious planetary self-defense mechanism.
"...We are at the tail end of humanity walking this Earth, and it is going to be an ugly sight to watch...."
Don't get ahead of yourself, NTI. Us aliens have watched this process from afar about five or six times. There's always a few humans that escape annihilation, breed like rats and do the same thing all over again. That's the ugly part. We rather enjoy the annihilation phase - it has a sort of sublime beauty. We've even composed a rather epic techno track that we play in the background during the last stages. It's really awesome. We would show you, but you'll be busy dying. Sorry! We're working out a CD deal for next time around.
Oil spill and rad water...good swimming 4 u donkey.
Guardian: Pacific Ocean “turning into a desert” off California — Experts: Entire generation of baby sea lions is dying; It’s incredible, it’s so unusual and there’s no good explanation for it; Expect same thing to happen again next year — Carts filled with emaciated dead bodies (PHOTOS)
http://enenews.com/guardian-pacific-ocean-turning-desert-california-expe...
Looks like they need to ditch them UCSB engineers and get some real cats from Pakistan U... just sayin'.
Good idea. Think how much they could save outsourcing their oil pipeline maintenance/operations to Pakistan!
Regards,
Cooter
GE said the same things abour their nuclear reactors. And we know how that's turning out.
oh come on....this is a private company....they can do what ever they want...whenever they want.........if i have learned anything from the posters while on zero hedge it is that no company ever has any responsibility toward anyone or anything...ever. fuck the seals and those rich ass beach bums.
sarcasm may or may not be applied as the reader sees fit......
paging al gore....... paging al gore
The end of the age of oil is nigh! Done, new ways now....
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/collateral-damage/
Just like Galveston in the 80's
Most of the coastline north of Santa Barbara has very few homes. The county and the California Coastal Commission have blocked attempts to build on or near the coast.
I'd forgotten how truly ugly the Southern California coast is but any sort of toxic spill is a tragedy and a long term mess.
Go North young people, this is beauty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCJEOEENKOI
But this is where the 'beautiful' people live! Only one thing can cure this problem: Let in more Illegals!!!
This is actually Warren retaliating against the guys that have been derailing all of his oil carrying trains.
Same damage fewer fireworks.
Take bus loads prisoners there for small crimes and give them their freedom after they've filled up 100 buckets.
That's actually a great idea, nonviolent offenders of course. The beach would be clean in no time. And on the reverse side the state wouldn't have to shelter them at an exorbitant expense for the rest of their sentence.
Of course you'd piss off the Justice System and their associated vendors who make all sorts of ill gotten graft from locking up folks with grass in their pocket.
You might even see prision guards out cleaning the cons lol.
Now how do you expect the corporate prison system to milk the taxpayer by designing an efficient setup like that?!
Tough times for Brown, now sold out to the NWO, which owns him. What to do to earn his payoffs, keep a low profile and continue to push gun control or complain about the hazards of transporting oil in corroding pipelines. Brown will ask his paymaster Bloomberg what to do.
Are you talking about his sister that works for Goldman-Sachs? Think she has an opening for him somewhere?
Maybe God is trying to tell me something about living here.
Miffed
God is telling us our time here is getting shorter by the day, and to make peace with him/her, and live our lives to the fullest.
Well, from a mathematical comparison of the 'laments' vs. the 'cheers'... I have come to the following conclusion:
Jews REALLY ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE...
Because the only ones not bitching as the planet Earth turns into a garbage heap are:
- The Jew bankers
- The jew controlled MSM (who, via control of ALL MSM networks, & the Reuters & AP news feeds owned by Rothschilds... tell you how A-OK everything is)
- The jew political activists, including 2 CA State Senators, who squirrel away their 6 figure annual salaries bitching about poor mistreated Israel
- The judges, who earn multi 6 figure salaries keeping the bankers & criminal politicians out of jail...
So... MIFFED... Sorry to say... GOD HATES YOU! (& God has decided that droughts & oil spills in California, whilst Feinstein & Barbara Boxer thrive, is the best, & most equitable course of action)... God doesn't give a FF about kelp, or, anchovies, or baby seals, or whales, or migratory birds... Instead ~ God ONLY cares that Feinstein, Boxer, & Co. have nice wine & dinner parties to go to (where they have the opportunity to 'cin-cin' champagne goblets and laugh about all the LITTLE PEOPLE, like you)... Frankly ~ none of that really bothers me PERSONALLY, because I see it for what it is...
I try to do my own 'GOD'S WORK' by pointing out these MATHEMATICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES TO ALL YOU HEATHEN, but mostlly you all think I'm just an @sshole for doing so... Which essentially means:
GOD HATES ME TOO... So at least we have something in common...
Clearly ~ You haven't yet cried enough gallons of crocodile tears in your lifetime for the POOR MISTREATED JEWS throughout history... Hopefully ~ You've learned your lesson by now... Good Luck!
Are you sure you're not confusing God with Lucifer? There are a lot of people in the 10268, 20500, E14 and EC postal codes that do that on a daily basis.
Get the fuck out of here with your God vs. Lucifer bullshit...
That's all I have to say about that... (I use the GOD HATES ME line as a fucking joke, because it's the only way to crack some idiot skulls)
Has your mind been so thoroughly hijacked that you believe that a GOD/or LUCIFER (which is an entity apart from yourself, according to the perception of most), gives a FF about you... For supposed 'GOOD', or 'EVIL'?
Look in the mirror, or, notwithstanding, go fucking meditate... Ask YOURSELF what you stand for & live by it...
That's the end of ANYTHING I have to say about it...
It isn't what I believe, it's what they believe.
Ever met a Lucifer worshipper? They generally come across as nice people.
Then they go into their 'rooms', and Lord knows how far they go to achieve their aims. Those that try to tell us don't last very long.
They have created 'Hell on Earth'. And we're the frogs in the boiling pot.
Trust me when I say this...
I'M NOT, nor ever have been... A frog in any 'Luciferians' boiling pot...
Don't you see?... It's all a matter of perception... My only motivation for making any of these comments in the first place is in the vain hope that some others will fucking WAKE UP...
I've done my job... The rest is up to the individual...
Gee, thanks.
Never would have made it without cha.
You must be some kind of a Prophet.
LOLOLOLOL.
So it's true then...
You ARE your khakis! (Either that, or you're Jake from State Farm)
Double post.
Miffed, I'd be proud to have you as a neighbor, but I'm not sure if you could stand the "culture shock" in these Arkansas hills. Stay safe, have fun, and keep your powder dry...BT
buy PAA on selloff. Lots of media attention to a minor issue.
Why not just re-name California "The State of Emergency" ...
Shit, in Texas, that's a good day at the beach..
Buncha fuckin pussies...
You know how to find Texas from California?
Go East till you smell it, and South till you step in it.
Mr. "GOD vs. LUCIFER"...
Telling everyone how to use their 'senses' in the PHYSICAL World...
You can't make this shit up!
Just use those super absorbent otters or seaguls.
Call Seattle and have all those MF'rs come down in their kayaks, they're probably still there protesting Shell. Pretty sure they can clean it up...
fuck you you asshole.
Hippies and energy policy is the best ZH topic/thread evar!
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/n5dnf3/an-energy-independent-future
Regards,
Cooter
That hurts r0m, I'm pushin 50, and you're the first person to tell me, "fuck you asshole". HAA HAAA HAAA!
Put that pretty fuckin sand in your gas tank, see how far it gets ya...
First time? You're waay too polite.
Guess I should've used the sarc tag...as a merchant marine engineer, "fuck you you asshole" is actually a good morning greeting, in the offshore world.
Good luck with your union, the Teamsters are getting fucked on their pensions:
'Teamsters spend big on politics while preparing to cut pensions'"The Teamsters have begun informing retirees and current workers that their pension benefits may soon be cut, the final ironic twist to a lobbying campaign that saw the union spend its own members’ dollars to win the right to shrink their retirement pay."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/20/teamsters-spend-big-on-p...Thanks, but as it stands, mariners in the oil industry (GOM) are about the last sector of non-union mariners left.
precisely the reason why those MF'rs are protesting MFing Shell. So this doesn't happen there and worse.
Having worked the Shell AK project, I saw lots of "eye-openers", one of which, being the concern when a fuel barge breaks loose up there. The big concern, will our villages have fuel for the generators that make our electricity? Happens quite often.
Container ships get the shit beat out of 'em, containers wash overboard, USCG blasts 'em full of holes w/.50 Cal, so they sink and won't be a hazard to navigation.
Furthermore, whether I, you, or they like it or not, oil/NG is basically the best we have now, unless we can get TEPCO to line the west coast with a bunch of Fukushimas.
There's about 30 more GE Mark 1 and 2 NPP's in the US, rapidly falling apart at the seams, not including the NPP about to wipe out Manhattan.
And not to mention 7 NPP's downstream of a collapsing dam in Tennessee.
Tesla had an answer, and he didn't last all too long after that discovery:
'Wardenclyffe Tower'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
Agreed! I live close to one that's past it's shelf life. Hell, they pretty much all are. They were not built to produce power, but for an arms race. The power was a by-product, but infrastructure was not built to replace them, and shutting them down would cause a national blackout.
Flannel is mighty absorbent.
Deathrips: "Political spin."
And Marketing spin... "IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD TIME TO BUY St.B. RE". Especially now that oil has been discovered.
Bullish for NYSE.
Soo many spins..so little time.
then one day jed was shooting at some food, up from the ground came a bubblin crude...oil that is.
RIPS
If Jed was a better shot, he could have kept his family fed.
It won't take a couple of hundred of years for mother nature to clean it up. In two years you'll never notice it happened at all.
Here's something I wish more people would remember. OIL COMES FROM THE FUCKING GROUND!. OIL NATURALLY FLOWS INTO THE OCEAN FROM THE FLOOR OF THE OCEAN.
Eyesore at your $5MM condo? Yes. Environmental tragedy? No.
They will 'solve' the environmental problem with Corexit.
Use Oyster Mushrooms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BelfLIJErek
Paul Stamets - Bioremediation with Fungiworks in a couple of months...
Mushrooms absorb radiation 80% higher than any other food:
"Fungi thrive on radioactivity. They appear to utilize the pigment melanin to convert gamma radiation into a hydrolysis process that enables them to gain mass, in ways possibly analagous to the manner in which green plants utilize the pigment chlorophyll to convert sunlight into carbohydrates in the process known as photosynthesis.
We should remember that gamma radiation is a type of light. It is made of photons, and is thus without mass just like visible light. It travels at the same speed as visible light. Why would it not be a kind of convertible food for molds and fungi?
Mold, Mutation and Radiation: in the Mix
6/15/2012
http://www.fridayharborholistichealth.com/2012/06/15/mold-mutation-and-radiation-in-the-mix/
Good luck.
I read about that guy's research. Pretty interesting stuff.
Stamets deserves the Nobel prize.
Instead, the elites keep him in the storage of history because he refused to work with the DoD when they came for him.
I'm willing to wager the family farm that people on the Gulf coast would trade places with the left coast
Not when they realize what's killing the sealions off:
Guardian: Pacific Ocean “turning into a desert” off California — Experts: Entire generation of baby sea lions is dying; It’s incredible, it’s so unusual and there’s no good explanation for it; Expect same thing to happen again next year — Carts filled with emaciated dead bodies' (PHOTOS)http://enenews.com/guardian-pacific-ocean-turning-desert-california-expe...
The 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused an unprecedented number of fatal diseases in roughly 1,300 dolphins over the course of five years, according to a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Up to now, the link between oil spill exposure and dolphin deaths has been inconclusive, but this study changes that. The results are from a forensic investigation that was part of NOAA’s long-term ecological analysis of the Deepwater incident that began in 2013. The spill itself leaked 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over five months in 2010.
http://rt.com/usa/260633-bp-oil-spill-killed-dolphins/
That's almost enough to spoil some billionaire motherfucker's afternoon golf round.
Allllmost
How quickly people forget. This is nothing compared to the Lakeview Gusher ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeview_Gusher
Regards,
Cooter
Hopefully Obie is scheduled for a round
Damn, Kalifornia is a MESS
http://geopoliticainternazionale.blogfree.net/?t=5130276
Iran and Israel !!!
I bet oil complicates sea water desalination.
Now that's mean. Piling on, kicking a state while it's down... sniff...
And nuclear plant seawater cooling systems. San Onofre may be shut down, but the seawater cooling must flow for a billion years. They will never 'decommission' that facility, or any facility for that matter.
I'm sure they're on the edge of their seats waiting to see how far south this oil spill might go.
What little water we had, we promptly ruined with an oil spill.
Who knew?
What a waste. Such a beautiful area too, or at least it was.
What is so beautiful about it? Little to no vegetation, constant noise. Perhaps you mean the sun setting on the horizon?
Don't a lot of wealthy people live in Santa Barbara? Sounds like this is a problem after all.....
I think that list is a little outdated.
"David Carradine" asphyxiated himself is some wierd sexual way years ago.
Doesn't mean you won't find him hanging around Santa Barbara
Bob Eubanks of Card Sharks fame?
In the butt, Bob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-qc-ntq5qw
I live in downtown Santa Barbara. The city of Santa Barbara is about 25 miles east along the coast from where the oil spill occured (Refugio State Beach). The area where the wealthy people live (Montecito) is yet a few more miles east. At present, this isn't affecting us at all in Santa Barbara and Montecito. However, the ocean currents here travel East along the coast. We expect the oil slick to arrive at our beaches in the coming days and weeks. Nevertheless, at around 100,000 gallons, this spill is a small fraction of the 4.2 million gallons that spilled in 1969.
100,000 barrels is 4.2 million gallons (1 US barrel holds 42 gallons)
I'm talking gallons, not barrels. I didn't mix my units, as you are implying.
This spill was 105,000 barrels , that is 4.41 million gallons. That is atleast 200,000 gallons higher than the leak you describe in 1969.
MSM commonly confused gallons and barrels. Last I saw, the count was 21,000 gallons, or 500 barrels. First time I saw the 105,000 figure was today, and the unit was gallons. I would show zero surprise if a journalist/ZH thought gallon meant barrel.
America is having an oil transportation and storage drama around the nation.
I'm glad the brainiacs aren't handling nuclear fuel rods too?
OH SHIT!
I hope the fuel rod techs speak English.
Another oil clean up contract for Haliburton?
I remember being stationed in California several times, and the papers were always full of political infighting over off shore oil in California. Claims of spill damage like this was often the ammunition anti drilling activists pointed to. With a state running out of water, oil is hardly a concern. I have seen big spills, like the one that ravaged the shores of Frances Atlantic coast. Give it a few years, sun and wave action, bactieria will clean it up. Not to say the next few years these beaches will not suck.
We are heading into the Arctic seas for oil now, the finds up there may make any California coastal wells small potatoes.
With the direction Cali is headed in (water wise) it will look like Saudi Arabia in a few years anyway.
No, the environmental crazies will insist on some oil dispersant be used " to help" which will, in the long run, be found to be more toxic than the oil. Or have I become too cynical?
Miffed
Surely using a pipeline to transport that oil could have prevented this....oh wait. We need moar different pipelines.
solution =
http://tinyurl.com/kvn98pq
At least it's taking out some of those ugly birds, and squids, and shit.
What an opportunity to launch a "work for weed" program. Every 100lbs of oil residue you capture you get a free 1/8 of high grade sativa. CA residents would line up.
Shit..we can buy a 1/8 of high grade for 20$.
If only the worker would clean 100 lbs an hour....they would make more than minimum wage.
Price of super high quality MMJ. $2500 a lb.
competition benifits the consumer.
RIPS
A lot of those Emerald Triangle guys would love to see $2500 for their outdoor.
Those guy were cutting a fat hog when Cal. first went legal. Now they're like sharecroppers.
Fuck the DEA they said and they ship it East and to the South.
Heep, heep, hooray for the U, S and A!!!
It is liquid disease. Don't touch or breathe the vapors.
California knows how to party.
I know it's california and all but for fuk sakes someone give those guys bigger shovels and maybe a few D10 dozers. That'll work a lot better than have some out of shape, viagra taking, beer belly, wrinkled up flat ass boomer shoveling up oil. Those boomers are only out there trying to get some free oil to sell to their grand kids for $1,000 a gallon to make some retirement money.
In California?
Bwhahahahahaha.
More Corexit profits for Nalco Company (Really BP and Exxon), and more cancer for the people.
While oil is not good to eat, it is natural and will dissipate on its own. If bound up with chemicals, it, and the chemicals, will linger for decades in the environment, and food-chain.
But don't fret, Nalco in the mean time can employee a few extra people in remodeling their executive suites.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bp-oil-spill-responsible-for-gulf-of-mexico-dolphin-deaths/
Corexit is killing the locals:
'The Vampire of Macando'.
I was going to link to the above book, but I can't find any reference to it anywhere on the Net.
That took some clout.
I bet if you bussed in some mainland Chinese to that beach they would happily put down towels and tents and leave a load of trash after a fun day in the sun and tar sand. Just another day in an environmentally destroyed planet. Get used to it America, more coming!
Faux News just said no animals have been harmed by the spill. WTF? Tell that to the dead Octopus and Pelican pictured above.
File Footage?
This will make great fodder for the progressive envirofreaks. Meanwhile, their sashimi has taken on a little CS-137 flavor. It's the latest thing .. .straight from Japan.
http://enenews.com/mysterious-black-mold-being-found-fish-pacific-northw...
Umm NO. "But the images of the cleanup are awful"... Lead in sentence just above first picture.
Awful.
Learn to swim, MF'ers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ErpFBO7RI
Quick, bomb a middle east civilian population then start sanctions and big talk against Russia...
Oil is organic and from the ground-
true, so why dont you go ahead and try to breathe it?
For now, it is unclear what caused the pipeline to rupture.
It's not like they haven't had a lot of earthtquakes in the area lately.
Here's an update on earthquakes (forecast, too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tti4jIW-fk4