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[meegbear]

Want to Force an Oil Exec to Eat a Sweet Crude-Coated Seagull



Texas sure has a literal way of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound. Yep, that's a barge partially sunk there and it leaked over 160,000 gallons of marine fuel oil into the Houston Ship Channel at Galveston Bay. While that's only about a fraction of the oil that fucked Alaska like a male polar bear on a Viagra-and-meth binge, it's still a whole lot of "heavy tar-like oil." It's closed one of the busiest waterways in the world for clean-up.

Oh, and hey, bonus points: the name of the ship that collided with the barge was "Summer Wind," which just sounds like global warming. It's like getting punched in the face by a stripper named "Chastity."

Oh, and hey, bonuser points: the oil spill comes at a time when tens of thousands of migratory birds will be camping out at the Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary, just east of the spill. The "sanctuary" part is ironic.

You know, Texas, you could have just sent flowers to Alaska. You didn't need to do the whole reenactment thing. But the accuracy is stunning. Why, you just want to break out the liquid soap and paper towels for old times sake.

Yes, when it comes to ruining the environment, everything old is always, always new again:



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[rhett o rick]

1. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[tea and oranges]

2. K&R

[d_legendary1]

3. This is pretty sad

Especially since suing these guys will be next to impossible since they will tie up the suit in court for years on end.

[Dustlawyer]

4. K&R!!! Thanks Rude one! The collision and spill happened a day before the 9th

Anniversary of the BP Texas City explosion a quarter mile away when 15 people killed, 6,000 injured (don't believe the couple of hundred the news reports (BP told them the number even though they settled 6,000 injury claims).
I am going there tomorrow to sign up some current BP oil spill clients of ours for this new spill. These fisherman cannot get a break from these oil companies!
I am a beach guy. My beach is the Bolivar Peninsula across the bay from Galveston/Texas City. As a kid we always had charcoal starter fluid with us when we went to the beach to clean off the tar balls we would end up in from a spill off the coast of Galveston. After 15-20 years we stopped getting into them. BP gave us a few, but it was much worse for our coastal friends to the East (I have been up and down the Gulf Coast, from the Texas boarder with Louisiana to Key West dozens of times since April 20, 2010 when the Deep Water Horizon blew,and it is much worse than you hear, believe me). There is so much dumping and leaking going on every day and people just think that the oceans are so big it doesn't matter, but it does!
Let's face it, we are killing this world and everything in it as if it! How long would a RW say we can continue at our current pace before we become extinct? They have to admit that we get there at some point, but I believe it's coming sooner than we think and it's going to be lifeless oceans for starters.
I'm really getting sick of this shit!

[Cha]

5. KICK thanks meeg