China's spreading oil spill a 'severe threat'

Environmental | 206873 hits | Jul 22 7:28 pm | Posted by: wildrosegirl

China's largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves.

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by Strutz
Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:36 am
This is terrible.

"We don't have proper oil cleanup materials, so our workers are wearing rubber gloves and using chopsticks," an official with the Jinshitan Golden Beach Administration Committee told the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, in apparent exasperation

You have got to be kidding me
by wildrosegirl
Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:04 am
"The oil spill will pose a severe threat to marine animals, and water quality, and the sea birds,"

Add that to their air quality issues and China won't have to worry about population control for much longer.

I can't believe operations like this (and BP's disaster) were ever approved with NO emergency plans in place. Who the hell was in charge?

We're going to be feeling the effects of this for decades. People just don't seem to learn.
by Dragom
Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:07 am
"wildrosegirl" said
I can't believe operations like this (and BP's disaster) were ever approved with NO emergency plans in place. Who the hell was in charge?

Someone who wanted to make 10 billion dollars, supported by people who wanted to see Gas go down 10 cents a liter. So um... Everyone?
by Khar
Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:59 am
To put it into a more easy number to understand, it's one one hundred and thirty ninth the size of Lake Huron, about a thirteenth the size of PEI's landmass, one seventeenth of the GTA area, or a little bigger than the size of the city of London, Ontario's metro area.

That's what it is at the moment, anyways. From this article and others I've read, it looks like this is expanding in area fairly quickly still. At least for the time being it is fairly tiny compared to the BP occurence.

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