Deepwater Horizon Oil Buried In Gulf Coast Beaches Could Take More Than 30 Years To Biodegrade
Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast beaches for decades
t these large clumps of oil and sand — called sediment-oil-agglomerates — take at least 30 years to decompose.
“This oil contains substances that are harmful to the environment and to humans,” Huettel said. “Understanding the fate of this buried oil is critical, as it can persist for long periods of time.”
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill contaminated an estimated 965 kilometers of sandy beaches along the Gulf of Mexico coastline.
cleanup operations were not able to unearth all of the harmful oil, some of which was buried as deep as 70 centimeters in the sand.
https://scienceblog.com/510385/deepwater-horizon-oil-buried-in-gulf-coast-beaches-could-take-more-than-30-years-to-biodegrade/
A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland
A nightmare at 6,000 feet.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-aftermath?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newslette r&utm_campaign=7e5c21ed83-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_23_Not_LA&utm_medium=email& utm_term=0_f36db9c480-7e5c21ed83-63318061&mc_cid=7e5c21ed83&mc_eid=80860ad8d3
BP Spill: Has the damage been exaggerated?
Have the financial penalites to the perpetrators been minimized?
have they really paid for their "external costs"?
Deepwater horizon—the lasting impact of America's largest oil spill
In 2015, BP issued a statement claiming that
the Gulf was healing itself and “returning to pre-spill conditions,”
which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) called “inappropriate as well as premature.”
During Joye’s two visits in 2010 and 2014, her ROVs captured soil samples and found that
BP’s oil had sprawled across more than 1,200 square miles of seafloor,
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-deepwater-horizonthe-impact-america-largest.html
Texas beaches have always had tar balls.Deepwater Horizon Oil Buried In Gulf Coast Beaches Could Take More Than 30 Years To Biodegrade
Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast beaches for decades
t these large clumps of oil and sand — called sediment-oil-agglomerates — take at least 30 years to decompose.
“This oil contains substances that are harmful to the environment and to humans,” Huettel said. “Understanding the fate of this buried oil is critical, as it can persist for long periods of time.”
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill contaminated an estimated 965 kilometers of sandy beaches along the Gulf of Mexico coastline.
cleanup operations were not able to unearth all of the harmful oil, some of which was buried as deep as 70 centimeters in the sand.
https://scienceblog.com/510385/deepwater-horizon-oil-buried-in-gulf-coast-beaches-could-take-more-than-30-years-to-biodegrade/
yep, and we, 60 years ago, used gasoline to remove it.
But the fish, birds, dolphins, crustaceans were healthy.
yet again, a complete lie of FALSE ING EQUIVALENCE
1954: world first offshore oil rig leaves LA coast.
https://aoghs.org/offshore-oil-history/
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An oil spill that began 15 years ago is up to a thousand times worse than the rig owner's estimate
A new federal study estimates that each day, about
380 to 4,500 gallons of oil are flowing
at the site where a company's oil platform was damaged after a hurricane.
That's about a hundred to a thousand times worse than the company's initial estimate, which put the amount of oil flowing into the ocean at less than three gallons a day.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/29/us/taylor-oil-spill-trnd/index.html
And of course, international BigOil is spending $100Ms to block environmental work, spew greenwashing bull and propaganda.
Exxon has promised investors it will extract all 250B barrels in its reserves.
The take home message is that sandy beaches are extraordinarily good at cleaning pollutants as long as the pollutants are not to large in volume ie lack surface area. (So stop building on beachfront and ruining the natural flow of sand and water. In fact, stop building next to water that gets exposed to severe weathering. (Peagarden take)) https://scienceblog.com/510385/deepw...to-biodegrade/
And, Natural oil seepage from the Gulf occurs regularly and ends up on beaches in Texas.
GOP LEADERSHIP HUDDLES WITH FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY DURING CLIMATE WEEK
Behind closed doors, across town in Washington, D.C., Republican lawmakers, including leadership, huddled with the fossil fuel industry, maintaining the very ties that bind U.S. policymakers and prevent them from addressing climate change.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., hosted fundraisers with oil and gas lobbyists to raise cash for the Scalise Leadership Fund, a political action committee used to dole out cash for battleground House races across the country.
event with Scalise was hosted by the BGR Group, a lobbying firm that represents Chevron, Southern Company, and Petroceltic International, among other fossil fuel interests.
The following day, Scalise hosted an event advertised as an “Oil & Gas Industry Dinner,” charging up to $5,000 to attend the event as a host.
LaHood, R-Ill., and Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., held fundraisers with the utility industry.
The two lawmakers were hosted by the Edison Electric Ins ute, a lobby group for the investor-owned utilities that has
fought to preserve coal power plants and obstruct mandates for renewable energy.
EEI, as it is known, represents Southern Company, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, and other
utility companies that rely on coal-burning power plants.
the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the prominent think tank,
hosted BP executives for a panel event on how to best address the climate crisis.
The event, a disclosure noted, was “made possible by generous support from BP.”
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/22/gop-fossil-fuel-fundraisers-climate-week/
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