Hands Across the Sand-Join us to stop near shore Oil Drilling In Florida Waters

[30A Skunkape]

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This is a picture of the oil spills after Katrina. Over 741,000 gallons spilled from 124 reported offshore sources. (An additional 7-9 million gallons were spilled onshore from refineries, pipelines, and storage tanks).

Please note that these were all rigs, wells, and pipelines that had been properly shut down prior to the storm.

As Mr. McLain stated, regulations* do NOT require that they purge the pieplines - so they don't because it is expensive. The pipes are still full of oil and when they break they spill all the oil in a matter of hours and this is the result.

*And another big issue is that Florida does not currently have any rules and regulations about drilling.

No problem. Our incumbent Florida House Representative has a rolodex fat with experts from Texas she can consult should we Floridians need 'guidance' in such matters.:roll:

 

[Beauty hunter]

This is what skunkape is talking about from the meeting

Here now. Look up the term 'sacrificial beach'!!

COLUMN: Don't sacrifice Florida's beaches to Big Oil | florida, oil, drilling - Opinion - TheDestinLog.com

 

[Teresa]

COLUMN: Don't sacrifice Florida's beaches to Big Oil | florida, oil, drilling - Opinion - TheDestinLog.com

thanks Beauty. I saw that McLain's remarks about his experience with spill response operations made an impression . A sacrificial beach is some place to divert the oil to during a spill. SWCC provided the same link (as above) today in a fb discussion. The column was written by David McLain in July 2009 and published by the Destin Log.
here it is in full:

COLUMN: Don't sacrifice Florida's beaches to Big Oil


July 21, 2009 2:27 PM

David McLain
Many thanks to Sen. Bill Nelson for the strong stand he is taking in the face of the renewed push for drilling off Florida’s beaches.

This absolutely is the wrong way to secure long term energy independence. As a retired soldier with 28 years service and two sons on active duty today, I am as concerned as anybody about our dependence on Middle East supplies of petroleum.

And I know Senator Nelson, as senior member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is as well. Much of the current clamor for drilling offshore of Florida is based in lack of information. Since I spent a fair amount of time after the Exxon Valdez catastrophe and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA90) in oil spill response planning, training, and operations, maybe I can offer some eyes-on/hands-on experience to fill that void.

During the early 90s, I was a training consultant and planner for the Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC), a national corporation, and creature of the large petroleum companies to meet their newly legislated liabilities to clean up petroleum spills of their making.

Refinery specific and/or geographic-specific response plans were written and training exercises conducted to improve preparedness to counter, or rather diminish, the horrific effects of petroleum products spilled in the marine environment.

It was my job to create such response plans and to conduct exercises to train employees in their execution. While at MSRC, I participated in spill response operations such as the San Jacinto River double pipeline rupture just east of Houston.

I developed a two-week hands-on spill response course that later became the Mobil Oil “Management of Major Spill Incidents” course taught to all their refinery managers in Louisiana and Texas. In 1995, I was part of an international effort to clean up a major pipeline spill in the Komi Republic in Siberia, funded by the World Bank.

If you walk on the beaches of Texas and Louisiana you cannot escape the “tar balls” that are the ubiquitous by-product of offshore drilling. They get tracked in by children and lay ruin to beach clothing, cottages, etc. Try walking on the beach at Padre Island off the Naval aviation training center in Corpus Christi.

These were not caused by a calamitous spill, but by normal, day-to-day operation of the existing rigs.

The right strategy for long term independence of foreign oil has to be to promote and subsidize the most promising combination of alternative sources of energy — and the infrastructure modernization necessary to exploit them.

Without a deliberate turning away from petroleum and toward a long term set of renewable energy, we’re simply “doubling down” on a long term mistake.

As spill response planners we had to consider a necessary “contingency plan” called a “sacrificial beach.” When the petroleum is in the water and we can’t recover it before it impacts landward resources like mangroves, salt marshes, estuaries, the plan must call for the identification of a “sacrificial beach” — some place we can divert the oil to for subsequent treatment by poisonous dispersants, bio-degradation, bulldozers, etc.

Even then, it will be years before that beach is useable again — if ever.

Don’t let our Florida become that sacrificial beach.

David McLain is a retired colonel who lives in Eastpoint near Apalachicola.

 

[30A Television]

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Early days but wow
Perhaps those pushing the other alternatives like our food sources and other too expensive not ready yet options would like to keep it a secret

More states, more filling stations this ones a winner

 

[GoodWitch58]

Drilling May Be Harmful to Fish, Other Marine Animals too

Researchers warn of drilling dangers at symposium | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat

"Seismic testing associated with offshore oil and gas drilling could harm Florida's $6 billion commercial and recreational fishing industry, a Florida State University researcher warned on Monday."

 

[GoodWitch58]

More Coverage of Hands Across the Sand

Offshore drilling opponents to join hands in protest Saturday | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat

"Hands" gets coverage from Tallahassee Democrat's political writer...

 

[Matt J]

They have many more trolls than we do here on sowal.com.

 

[Jdarg]

The Hands Across the Sand Facebook page has attracted so many people from all over Florida (and around the country). Posts from people from different beaches everywhere raise the excitement of the event - this is not just a local issue!


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Some good articles and links are posted as well.

See y'all at the beach on Saturday!

 

[Jdarg]

They have many more trolls than we do here on sowal.com.

Yes, nothing like paid big oil trolls. Guess the profits need to go somewhere.;-)

 

[Matt J]

Yes, nothing like paid big oil trolls. Guess the profits need to go somewhere.;-)

I'm curious if Satan still requires a blood signature or if he's modernized and accepts a digital signature on the contract?