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- ukit
Fucksake
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/23…
The U.S. Coast Guard has closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans southward after a tanker and a barge collided, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the river.
Tugboats hold up pieces of a barge after it collided with a tanker Wednesday in the Mississippi River in New Orleans.Tugboats hold up pieces of a barge after it collided with a tanker Wednesday in the Mississippi River in New Orleans.
The river, a major shipping route between the Midwest and Gulf of Mexico, could be closed for days during the cleanup, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.
More than 30 ships already are queued up along the river, waiting to pass through the closed zone, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jaclyn Young said.
The Coast Guard has deployed 45,000 feet of inflatable booms to contain the spill and is lining up another 29,000 feet, but it could be days before the river is reopened, she said.
The accident left a sheen over 90 percent of the area, she said.
- Gucci0
oh dear.
- mjg0
this is disgusting
- monospaced0
that's a lot
- dearhead0
snap
- CALLES0
there goes the economy again
- janne760
there goes the ecology again
- pencilpants0
son of a bitch
- ********0
god hates New Orleans
- ukit0
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jo…
John McCain had been scheduled to travel to New Orleans tomorrow to give a speech on...the need for off-shore oil drilling. The trip was canceled.
- CALLES0
there goes Theodore Tugboat again
- ********0
Let's destroy the planet, one river at a time, god bless america!
- mrdobolina0
oh the irony of that happening while they continue to talk about off shore drilling.
- PonyBoy0
everyone here that drives a car should smother themselves in oil and set themselves ablaze to simulate the river's pain
- CALLES0
i got this
- dirtydesign0
They come up with a new technology to prevent oil spills???
Some kind of ship bladder or somethin...
- CALLES0
a ship condom?
- MSTRPLN0
I hope the barge wasn't transporting vinegar
- CALLES0
maybe they should just dump a buncg of hummers and SUV to soak up all the fuel