Transporting oil on the high seas can be as much profitable and economical as it can be devastating to the environment. This brings me to my next branch off of the oil trafficking tree of blogs. The spilling of oil off the coast by a tanker or drilling rig either by negligence or accident and ever so help us on purpose.
Now I say on purpose because during the Gulf War oil was intentionally dumped to aggravate and hinder the production of only to have American planes bomb the pump station to turn off the pipeline from further spilling into the sea. As for accidents are concerned there are documented cases since the beginning of oil transportation of said spilling. A few worth mentioning are the Exxon Spill off Prince William Point off the shores of Alaska. To this day this incident occurring in 1989 is the largest oil spill to record dumping millions of gallons into the ocean. With spills of this magnitude it is evident of the disruption to the local wildlife for which if put in contact either by touch or consumption is hazardous to there health. What caused this wreck was the meeting of the ships hull (bottom of boat) with a shallow reef in the path of the tanker trying to avoid hitting an ice berg (picking up a trend with ice bergs). As pictured below one method really available to us in the cleanup of an oil spill is the burning of the top crude where the oil is most flammable.
Now I say on purpose because during the Gulf War oil was intentionally dumped to aggravate and hinder the production of only to have American planes bomb the pump station to turn off the pipeline from further spilling into the sea. As for accidents are concerned there are documented cases since the beginning of oil transportation of said spilling. A few worth mentioning are the Exxon Spill off Prince William Point off the shores of Alaska. To this day this incident occurring in 1989 is the largest oil spill to record dumping millions of gallons into the ocean. With spills of this magnitude it is evident of the disruption to the local wildlife for which if put in contact either by touch or consumption is hazardous to there health. What caused this wreck was the meeting of the ships hull (bottom of boat) with a shallow reef in the path of the tanker trying to avoid hitting an ice berg (picking up a trend with ice bergs). As pictured below one method really available to us in the cleanup of an oil spill is the burning of the top crude where the oil is most flammable.
Unfortunately this is also a double edged sword where in burning it releases air pollution on a massive scale making it efficient but bad in the long run.
References cited
http://www.ishttp://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/SEEJ/Alaska/miller2.htm
raeli-weapons.com/history/desert_storm/Desert_Storm.html
3 comments:
Your pictures that you used are very descriptive and tells exactly the point your trying to get across in the blog. That is crazy how much oil can be spilt in the ocean and can cause so much damage. Maybe you could tell about what oceans have had major oil spills and what happened?
I really like your blog. I was intersted in the big Exon Spill some years ago. I knew about this, and I really care for the sea and the wildlife. Very interesting on why this happened.
You have made sme interesting points here...but make those obvious connections, too. Where are they links/citations-references? It would be good for you to give a specific example of each scenario, especially the one about the Gulf War oil being dumped. When did this happen? Who set it all up?
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