Hurricane Season Could Halt Oil Spill Cleanup

villager

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Wed May-05-10 01:38 PM
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Hurricane Season Could Halt Oil Spill Cleanup

Source: LiveScience

Hurricane Season Could Halt Oil Spill Cleanup

Emergency rescue crews in the Gulf of Mexico are in a race against nature to complete oil spill cleanup operations before the start of hurricane season, which begins June 1.

"This could go on for 60 to 90 days or more," said Doug Helton, coordinator of incident operations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "There's a lot of things that could go on in that time period that would greatly impact our model, like the fact that hurricane season is starting in a month."

The effects a hurricane could have on the spreading oil spill are impossible to predict, but one thing is certain: Cleanup efforts would have to halt completely in the face of a big storm, said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesperson for the National Hurricane Center.

"You can't have a cleanup in a hurricane. That's kind of a no brainer," Feltgen said. "You can only try to get this cleaned up with all possible speed" before hurricane season starts.

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foxfeet

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Wed May-05-10 01:53 PM
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1. Between the oil gusher and still-homeless Haitians

hurricane season looks especially grim this year.

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jus_the_facts

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Wed May-05-10 02:04 PM
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2. Once the Gulf starts to heat up ....there will be daily afternoon storms to halt it....

....won't take only hurricanes. :(

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bergie321

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Wed May-05-10 02:08 PM
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3. Oil Hurricanes...

...Oh goody. :sarcasm:

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kgnu_fan

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Wed May-05-10 02:10 PM
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4. It will spread the mess into wider and deeper areas of our ocean!

I can almost see how this huge mess would be shaken up and mixed up like a huge milk shake.... eventually making our entire ocean dead... horror!!!

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Wed May-05-10 04:24 PM
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5. If the Gulf gets magor hurricanes, the oil leak is still going;

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and knocks out OTHER rigs in the area

Katrina will look like a pussycat.

New Orleans was built in a bad area, could have been reinforced properly,

but they always went on the cheap side.

By "cheap" - I am not suggesting tons of money was not put into trying to keep a city alive in a swamp area - but it was never enough.

ALL the oil rigs in the gulf are subject to failure, especially since they are in Momma Nature's hurricane highway.

This Hurricane Highway has been known for centuries - but our greed for oil . . .

'nuff said

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B2G

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Wed May-05-10 04:27 PM
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6. Fortunately, hurricane season doesn't get cranking until August

At least not typically.

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