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Warning: Rant and profanity to follow
Nov. 19th, 2002 12:12 pm"Gee, our ship just sprung a leak and dumped 5000 tons of crude oil into the Atlantic. Should we dock and offload the other 65,000 tons? Naaaah! Let's HAUL IT OUT TO FUCKING SEA and see how far we get before the ship splits in two!!" Damned BRILLIANT idea! WHERE DO THEY FIND THESE PEOPLE, and WHY do they put them in power???
So now there's an oil carrier with 70,000 tons of crude oil on the bottom of the ocean floor off the coast of Spain - oh, sorry; much of that oil is no longer in the tanker, is it, now? - and authorities say this one's going to make Exxon Valdez look like spilled milk. (Story)
And this is not an issue of, "Oops, look at that - well, it's not bad, we'll just keep going." On November 13th, the ship dumped 3,300 TONS of oil into the sea, and they KEPT HAULING IT AWAY FROM LAND FOR SIX DAYS. So now there's a 70-mile slick off the coast of Spain. Joy, oh, joy. They're estimating as long as four years to clean it up.
You know you have PMS when you read the news story and it makes you start to cry.
Then again, it would make me want to cry even if I weren't pissy today.
So now there's an oil carrier with 70,000 tons of crude oil on the bottom of the ocean floor off the coast of Spain - oh, sorry; much of that oil is no longer in the tanker, is it, now? - and authorities say this one's going to make Exxon Valdez look like spilled milk. (Story)
And this is not an issue of, "Oops, look at that - well, it's not bad, we'll just keep going." On November 13th, the ship dumped 3,300 TONS of oil into the sea, and they KEPT HAULING IT AWAY FROM LAND FOR SIX DAYS. So now there's a 70-mile slick off the coast of Spain. Joy, oh, joy. They're estimating as long as four years to clean it up.
You know you have PMS when you read the news story and it makes you start to cry.
Then again, it would make me want to cry even if I weren't pissy today.
