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mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Wed 07/21/10 06:53 AM
BEIJING — China's largest reported oil spill more than doubled in size to 165 square miles by Wednesday, forcing nearby beaches to close and prompting one official to warn of a "severe threat" to sea life and water quality. The oil slick started spreading five days ago when a pipeline at a busy northeastern port exploded, sparking a massive fire that took more than 15 hours to contain. Hundreds of boats have been deployed to help with the cleanup. At least one person has been killed in those efforts, a 25-year-old firefighter, Zhang Liang, who drowned Tuesday after a wave threw him from a vessel and pushed him out to sea, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. Another man who also fell in was rescued. Beaches near Dalian, once named China's most livable city, were closing as oil started reaching their shores, Xinhua reported. "The oil spill will pose a severe threat to marine animals, and water quality, and the sea birds," Huang Yong, deputy bureau chief for Dalian, China Maritime Safety Administration, told Dragon TV. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The cause of the blast was still not clear Wednesday. The pipeline is owned by China National Petroleum Corp., Asia's biggest oil and gas producer by volume. Images of 100-foot-high flames shooting up near part of China's strategic oil reserves drew the immediate attention of President Hu Jintao and other top leaders. Now the challenge is cleaning up the greasy brown plume floating off the shores of Dalian. The environmental group, Greenpeace China, shot several photographs at the scene Tuesday before their team was forced to leave. They showed oil-slicked rocky beaches, a man covered in thick black sludge up to his cheekbones, and workers carrying a colleague covered in oil away from the scene. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38337393/ns/world_news-world_environment/

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Wed 07/21/10 11:42 AM
IT will be good to get off the oil ,,,,hope my daughter sees it in her lifetime

cottonelle Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 3594	Wed 07/21/10 12:12 PM
i guess they are trying to out do our oil spill

Ladylid2012 Joined Sun 07/05/09 Posts: 42269	Wed 07/21/10 01:09 PM


number96 Joined Wed 04/28/10 Posts: 146	Wed 07/21/10 02:11 PM
China is just following by example. First the U.S. with EXON Valdese. Seccond the British with BP. Now China. Next will be India, or whoever else is catching up to the U.S. fast.

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Wed 07/21/10 02:13 PM
China is just following by example. First the U.S. with EXON Valdese. Seccond the British with BP. Now China. Next will be India, or whoever else is catching up to the U.S. fast. usa 2 china 1

Thorb Joined Mon 06/28/10 Posts: 505	Wed 07/21/10 10:30 PM Edited by Thorb on Wed 07/21/10 10:36 PM
Largest oil spills Main article: List of oil spills Oil spills of over 100,000 tons or 30 million US gallons, ordered by tons[a] Spill / Tanker Location Date *Tons of crude oil Barrels US Gallons References Lakeview Gusher United States, Kern County, California 01910-05-14May 14, 1910 – September, 1911... 1200000.Tons of Crude Deepwater Horizon United States, Gulf of Mexico 02010-04-20April 20, 2010 – Present 414,000–1,186,000 tons of Crude .. still not determined completely Gulf War oil spill Iraq, Persian Gulf and Kuwait 01991-01-23January 23, 1991 270,000–820,000 tons of crude a One ton of crude oil is roughly equal to 308 US gallons or 7.33 barrels approx.; 1 oil barrel is equal to 35 imperial or 42 US gallons. b Original estimates for the spill were as high as 11,000,000 barrels,[45][46] however these numbers were corrected downward by subsequent, more detailed studies. others are much smaller but still plentyful and signifigant locally.

TonkaTruck3 Joined Fri 02/12/10 Posts: 852	Wed 07/21/10 10:39 PM
I want more oil. All the alternative energy whacko's are living in a dreamland.

Thorb Joined Mon 06/28/10 Posts: 505	Wed 07/21/10 10:57 PM Edited by Thorb on Wed 07/21/10 10:58 PM
I want more oil. All the alternative energy whacko's are living in a dreamland. And I want you and your buds to use oil more wisely for you are living in a whacko dreamland of unlimited excess. [or at least dreaming of it]

Jess642 Joined Sat 03/31/07 Posts: 22732	Sat 07/24/10 01:09 PM
......fan- f * king-tastic!!!! ...NOT!!!! Have you not figured it out yet? Has not anyone figured it out yet? We are sh * tting in our own backyard.... we only have one freakin address!!! all of us.... Earth.

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Sat 07/24/10 01:18 PM
......fan- f * king-tastic!!!! ...NOT!!!! Have you not figured it out yet? Has not anyone figured it out yet? We are sh * tting in our own backyard.... we only have one freakin address!!! all of us.... Earth. as smart as people have a potential to be, we are still doomed to wipe ourselves into extinction...darwins law is moving full speed ahead.

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Sat 07/24/10 03:37 PM
......fan- f * king-tastic!!!! ...NOT!!!! Have you not figured it out yet? Has not anyone figured it out yet? We are sh * tting in our own backyard.... we only have one freakin address!!! all of us.... Earth. We had potential furture addresses but Obama screwed that one up to by canceling the space program and directing NASA to improve relations with Muslims.

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Sat 07/24/10 03:45 PM Edited by mightymoe on Sat 07/24/10 03:47 PM
......fan- f * king-tastic!!!! ...NOT!!!! Have you not figured it out yet? Has not anyone figured it out yet? We are sh * tting in our own backyard.... we only have one freakin address!!! all of us.... Earth. We had potential furture addresses but Obama screwed that one up to by canceling the space program and directing NASA to improve relations with Muslims. they retracted that... now they want to land on some asteroids and mars after that... and obama said he never said that, nasa is back almost the way it was, with about 4 billion more dollars. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38267623/ns/technology_and_science-space

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Sat 07/24/10 06:34 PM
......fan- f * king-tastic!!!! ...NOT!!!! Have you not figured it out yet? Has not anyone figured it out yet? We are sh * tting in our own backyard.... we only have one freakin address!!! all of us.... Earth. We had potential furture addresses but Obama screwed that one up to by canceling the space program and directing NASA to improve relations with Muslims. they retracted that... now they want to land on some asteroids and mars after that... and obama said he never said that, nasa is back almost the way it was, with about 4 billion more dollars. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38267623/ns/technology_and_science-space The shuttle program is still canceled as well as the planned moon trip that has been in the works for years I believe.