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The Canadian province of Alberta suffers its second major oil spill this month, as Enbridge's...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 10:31 AM ETThe Canadian province of Alberta suffers its second major oil spill this month, as Enbridge's (ENB +0.5%) Elk Point pumping station leaks 230K liters of heavy crude. The Energy Resources Conservation Board says the oil has not spilled into any waterways; ENB says the cause of the leak appears to be a failure of a flange gasket.
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If it is was reported as a 1476 barrel oil spill, I guess it would be a yawner. The equivalent of a large swimming pool is hardly going to have any impact upon the world's environment. Oil is a naturally occurring or "organic" product so I am pretty sure the earth has figured out how to deal with it.
How many birds were killed by wind turbines (bird cuisinarts) today?
Save a bird, burn oil!
However, we don't go around 'encouraging' death do we....
Not that I disagree with the gist of your post, just with the way you rationalize it.
By the way, when you have numbers on the impact of windmills on birds let me know...
I am against wind turbines because they are useless and they kill birds.
First link I found was Politifact:
http://bit.ly/N9IUqi
"Alexander’s press spokesman, Jim Jeffries, told us the "over 400,000" figure the senator cited came from the American Bird Conservancy, a nonprofit group whose mission is to protect native birds and their habitats, and from a report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Robert Johns, a spokesman for the American Bird Conservancy, told us the group got its estimate from the same Fish and Wildlife report Alexander’s office had cited.
The report in question was written in 2009 by Albert Manville, a respected biologist in Fish and Wildlife’s Division of Migratory Bird Management. Manville’s estimates of the bird fatalities caused by wind turbines have been cited in testimony before a congressional committee and in newspapers such as The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times."
I find your indifference to oil spillage in tandem with your concern over bird deaths just... really... really... odd...
"I find your indifference to oil spillage"
It's called a matter of perspective - a swimming pool full of oil spilling is hardly cause for alarm but that's just me.
Have you ever considered the local environmental impact of "wind-farms" on the land and the ecology immediately surrounding them?
You take pristine environmental areas and radically change them with the introduction of the cuisinarts and you consider that "clean" energy and environmentally friendly?
As an FYI, the earth has always had oil and knows how to deal with it but wildlife has no clue how to adapt to a windmill :)
John below states the obvious: oil seeps naturally all the time especially in the ocean and we don't call those "spills".
Does anyone know the typical flow rates? It would be interesting to see how 240k L/62k US Gal translates in time. Most likely this was a quickly resolved event.
See below from the story link in the post above which means the "leak" is over:
"The release, which occurred June 18, 2012, is largely contained within the pumping station site. The area was secured and clean-up operations began immediately. There is no risk to public health or safety. Preliminary volume estimates of the release are approximately 230 m3 (1,400 barrels). The cause of the release appears to be a failure of a flange gasket in the pumping station."
Surely there are some who oppose fossil _____ (fill in the blank) who would try and equate this to other spills of truly epic proportions and impact, for example.