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120,000 Gallons Oil Spill In Mississippi River

Sunday, September 6, 2015 8:48

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Want to see how disgustingly little shame President Obama and the professional Left has? To date, there has been zero accountability for the EPA disaster beyond “oops,” but it will be interesting to see the political fallout of this oil spill. Perhaps we need to give another $500,000 to Solyndra to let them try again? Perhaps we should ban oil completely? I’m obviously being sarcastic, but you can be sure whatever nonsense Obama and the Left start spewing will not be sarcasm.

It’s a shame (no pun intended) that Obama and his liberal ilk have no shame, and take such unethical approaches to achieve their goals, otherwise there would likely be more common ground the parties could find solutions for. For example, the past few days there has been a TON, and I mean TON of reports that the Virginia shooting was ANOTHER hoax orchestrated by the Left to facilitate ANOTHER gun grab. Obama and the rest of Crime Inc., NEVER stop scheming, instead of governing. For very disturbing information on previous gun grab schemes, see the following:

Adam Lanza: The Fictional Perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Hoax

The Sandy Hook Hoax: Convince a Skeptic

$1 TRILLION Lawsuit Filed Over Sandy Hook Hoax!

The Sandy Hook Hoax: How We KNOW It Didn’t Happen

FBI Says No One Killed at Sandy Hook

Sandy Hook Student Confesses ‘WE WERE HAVING A DRILL’

Sandy Hook Lead Investigator Dies Suddenly at Age 49

Obama Officials Confirm That It Was a Drill and No Children Died

Ads Seeking Actors For “STAGED” Shooting Found Before Ft. Hood

Obama Calls For Gun Control in Wake of Navy Shooting

There is no question this generation and the one before it have been terrible stewards our only planet. Just about everyone would agree we only have one Earth, and we need to take better care of it, but the lies and deceit to try and achieve that objective from the Left are inexcusable. It’s what turns off so many and results in the all or nothing stances we see by politicians on both sides.

The video below discusses the 120,000 oil spill, as well as recent news coming out of Fukushima. Did you know that 700,000 TONS of radiation contaminated water JUST FROM from the crippled Fukushima Unit 1 are presently being stored, completely not even counting the other FIVE units slowly melting down. My God. While liberals continue to destroy public trust with all their shams, REAL issues get glossed over. Simply shameless.

Part of the Mississippi River was closed as crews investigated an oil spill caused by the collision of two tow boats, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.

The collision Wednesday evening near Columbus, Kentucky, damaged at least one barge carrying clarified slurry oil. The cargo tank was ruptured, causing thousands of gallons of oil to spill into the river, the Coast Guard said.

No injuries were reported.

The river is closed from mile markers 938 to 922, Petty Officer Lora Ratliff said.

The barge was carrying approximately 1 million gallons, but the breach was only in one area, affecting just one of its six tanks, Ratliff said. That tank holds 250,000 gallons, and Lt. Takila Powell said a little more than 120,000 gallons spilled into the river.

The Coast Guard said it was working with the barge owner, Inland Marine Services, and an oil spill response organization. Inland Marine Services referred calls to its public relations person, Patrick Crowley, who did not return repeated calls seeking comment.

Both tow boat operators had been interviewed by Coast Guard investigators and underwent drug and alcohol testing, but results aren’t back yet, Powell said.

It wasn’t known how long the river would be closed.

“We are working diligently to try to restore our marine transportation system,” Powell said. “We understand that it is vital.”

The Coast Guard determined five barges were damaged in the collision, but nothing other than the oil leaked into the river, Powell said.

The tow boats were moored on opposite sides of the river and a long gash was apparent in the smaller vessel. River traffic was backed up on both sides, though it wasn’t yet known how many vessels were backed up. By Thursday evening, there was no sign of a large cleanup operation.

Powell said cleanup efforts had started with the barge and that crews put a boom around the ruptured cargo tank to prevent any residual oil from leaking into the river. Cleanup crews Friday will go into the river to try to determine where the oil is, with a goal of trying to recover as much of the oil as possible from the river.

Some oil was recovered from the surface during cleanup operations Thursday, Powell said, but she didn’t know how much.

Powell said the oil is thick and has to be heated to be transferred or moved.

“How this type of product typically would react is that when it reaches the water that is of a lower temperature, it would solidify and sink,” she said Thursday. “But one of the things that we will be doing tomorrow is trying to determine where that oil has migrated to, to try to determine whether or not it has moved down the river or if it’s still in the vicinity of where the collision occurred.”

The collision happened in the middle of the river channel near Columbus, Kentucky, late Wednesday, the Coast Guard said. The cause was under investigation. The closure stretched 17 miles south to the city of Hickman.

Powell said it was hard to say how much of the oil was released mid-channel because the barge was eventually pushed up to the bank.

Keleia McCloud, assistant director of the Hickman port, says both the port and ferry service were operating normally.

Hickman County official Kenny Wilson said local communities experienced no disruptions from the spill and the water supply in Columbus was not affected because it comes from wells. He said Columbus-Belmont State Park remained open.

Powell said there had been no reports of fish kills.

Joe Hogancamp of Bardwell, Kentucky, was putting his 20-foot-long boat into the Mississippi River just downstream from the collision. He said he might refrain from fishing in the area affected by the oil spill.

“It might mess up some of the fishing,” he said. “I’d say it’s going to hurt the environment a little bit. I doubt we’ll eat some fish (from the river) for a little while.”

A May 19 oil pipeline rupture in California caused a spill of what has been estimated to be up to 143,000 gallons of crude, according to documents from Texas-based Plains All American Pipeline. That spill forced a popular state park to shut down for two months, and goo from the spill washed up on beaches as far as 100 miles away.

A July 2008 spill caused by a collision between a tugboat and a barge carrying oil on the Mississippi River in New Orleans sent 282,000 gallons into the water and caused the closure of the river.

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