They are opening the scallop season 2 weeks early on the west coast of florida because of the oil threat .
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June 14, 2010 1:56 p.m. Karl La Follette HalfDork
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June 14, 2010 2:22 p.m. DukeOfUndersteer SuperDork
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June 15, 2010 5:51 a.m. shadetree30 Reader
BTW, just what is this stupid law that prohibits non-US-flagged ships (?) from assisting in the cleanup? Supposedly Saudi Arabia and The Netherlands among others have asked to help but are prohibited.
WTF?
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June 16, 2010 8:57 p.m. shadetree30 Reader
shadetree30 wrote:
BTW, just what is this stupid law that prohibits non-US-flagged ships (?) from assisting in the cleanup? Supposedly Saudi Arabia and The Netherlands among others have asked to help but are prohibited.
WTF?
Found it:
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June 23, 2010 2:01 p.m. DukeOfUndersteer SuperDork
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June 23, 2010 3:31 p.m. TJ Dork
shadetree30 wrote:
shadetree30 wrote:
BTW, just what is this stupid law that prohibits non-US-flagged ships (?) from assisting in the cleanup? Supposedly Saudi Arabia and The Netherlands among others have asked to help but are prohibited.
WTF?
Found it:
I wish crap like this surprised me. Am I the only one that thinks we would much better off if the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations were cut down to about 10% of their current size?
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July 9, 2010 9:03 a.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
Another reason not to go swimming anywhere near the spill: Frickin' Sharks (no laser beams on them, but still):
http://news.discovery.com/earth/gulf-mexico-dead-zone-oil-spill.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
They're driven up near the coast by the expanding dead zone.
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July 15, 2010 9:23 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
Looks like there's some hope of stopping this thing before the relief well after all:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/07/15/gulf.oil.disaster/index.html
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July 16, 2010 8:58 a.m. TJ SuperDork
TJ wrote:
Less toxic doesn't mean not toxic. It may or may not be better than the oil in the long run.
I still think the dispersants are the bigger problem than the oil. Sure the spill looks better since the oil is dispersed in tiny little droplets instead of big ugly oil slicks, but I think we went from one terrible environmental mess to two. Now we have all the oil, plus all the millions of gallons of the dispersants.
