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Ecological Disaster Gulf of Mexico (pg. 25)
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| Trance-MB |
This all probably wouldn't have gone so bad if they just used this Dutch invention from the start.
A bit late now:
| quote: | Published on 31 May 2010 - 10:41am
Three oil-sweeping arms provided by the Dutch government have been flown to the United States. Another three arms will be leaving today and experts from private industry will also fly in to assist. The transport was to have taken place on Saturday, but no suitable plane could be found to carry the heavy equipment.
The US authorities requested the sweeping arms and auxiliary equipment to help collect oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico.
The arms can be attached to ships and will then collect floating oil and pump it into storage tanks. Depending on weather conditions they can each pump up to 350 cubic metres an hour. They should go into operation on Wednesday.
The sweeping arms will remain in the United States after use and Washington will pay for them to be replaced. Caretaker Transport Minister Camiel Eurlings commented: "We have been working closely with the US on water-related issues in the Louisiana region since Hurricane Katrina. It seems no more than natural that once again we stand together with the people of Louisiana."
Oil is still gushing from the BP site at a depth of 1.5 kilometres in the Gulf of Mexico. Six weeks since the leak occurred technicians have still not succeeded in repairing it. |
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| we_R_DNA |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
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| quote: | Originally posted by entities of reddit
"Trying to reconcile the massive cognitive dissonance that is the brain of Sarah Palin will make your brain explode. Please be careful." ~smeezy~
"To deal with dissonance of that caliber, you have to reconfigure your shield harmonics and channel power from life support into the deflector dish while attenuating the EPS power conduits to emit a phased EM pulse at exactly 2.6791 jovian gigahertz.Which, yes, can make your head explode." ~ew73~ |
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| we_R_DNA |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-MB
A bit late now: |
Status update; I heard from local news sources here in the deepest of Texas that this. . .
| quote: | SAND BARRIERS
The Coast Guard's Allen directed BP to pay for five more sand barrier projects in Louisiana. BP said Thursday the project will cost it about $360 million, on top of about $990 million it had spent as of its latest expense update Tuesday. |
fromThe Associated Press
was actually something requested shortly after this event happened back on 04/20/2010 . . .
and!!!! the US government would not let any local people get paid to build sand barriers then had it all contracted out to WHOM? XD |
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| Fledz |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
I think its amazing that the supposed epicentre of freedom and personal responsibility is rife with people who will do anything to pass the buck. |
We'll send them Kevin Rudd. After all, the buck does stop with him. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Palin/Rudd. 2012.
Now do you see why we own guns? |
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| jester |
| The US should return the favour... whatever millions of gallons of petrol they can recover from the water. They should fly over the UK and dump it onto them and see how they like it. |
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
The US should return the favour... whatever millions of gallons of petrol they can recover from the water. They should fly over the UK and dump it onto them and see how they like it. |
We would eat it for breakfast. |
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| jester |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7
We would eat it for breakfast. |
Good to know. |
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| get nyce |
| already showing up in pensacola, if it comes into the atlantic stream we're dunzo! imagine what sobe would be like without it's beach? |
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