Thread to document oil disasters as they happen

[Fake Boris]

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8/13/2013

Illinois pipeline blast sends flames 90 metres into air

A fuel pipeline beneath a western Illinois cornfield has exploded, sending flames 90 metres into the sky and prompting dozens of evacuations, fire officials said.

8/05/2013

Toxic cloud of tar sands waste travels from Detroit to Canada

A massive cloud of black dust that swept across the Detroit River into Windsor, Canada this week has been linked to piles of petroleum coke, a by-product of tar sands oil illegally stored in Detroit by Koch Carbon.

8/04/2013

Nobody understands ongoing spills at Alberta oilsands operation

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has been unable to stop an underground oil blowout that has killed numerous animals and contaminated a lake, forest, and muskeg at its operations in Cold Lake, Alta.

[Fake Boris]

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[The Mad Monk]

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08/4/2013

Nobody understands ongoing spills at Alberta oilsands operation

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has been unable to stop an underground oil blowout that has killed numerous animals and contaminated a lake, forest, and muskeg at its operations in Cold Lake, Alta.

Do they provide environmental impact statements before going on bombing runs?

[Hauldren Collider]

And yet, Oncle Boris presumably still drives cars, rides buses and flies on planes. Let me know when you get a plug-in hybrid 747.

[Wezil]

I'd prefer a thread for US mass shootings. It would be busier.

[giblets]

And yet, Oncle Boris presumably still drives cars, rides buses and flies on planes. Let me know when you get a plug-in hybrid 747.

Yep, either you don't see any problems with oil usage at all or you want to completely cut off oil consumption.

[Asher]

I appreciate the exceptionally mature thread icon he chose for this thread.

He's either an idiot or trying to troll. Actually, he's both.

I especially appreciate his attention to detail. For example, the spill was contained four days ago. The cause was a mechanical failure at an old well and it contaminated 13 hectares. It's almost fully cleaned up already.

The most horrifying part of this spill is it happened in the most ecologically insensitive part of the world it could have happened. The well was deep inside a weapons testing range, where cruise missiles and the like have been tested for decades.

The scale of devastation has been unimaginable. The death toll: 6 birds, 7 gophers, and 38 fish.

Far more animals are killed by wind farms each day.

[Wezil]

He should be pleased by last week's pipeline announcement.

[notyoueither]

It's of some benefit to Quebec, so of course he will be for the pipes to Montreal, but opposed to them extending to New Brunswick.

[Wezil]

I'm guessing benefit won't matter. Oncle is a nose cutting sort of guy.

[Asher]

Here's a far more devastating environmental attack.

95% of the fish inside the pond in High Park have been murdered. Hundreds dead. The current theory is algae killed them. ****ing nature - what a vengeful *****.

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hundreds-of-dead-fish-found-floating-in-high-park-1.1396693

[Wezil]

Murdered

Nice.

[Hauldren Collider]

The most horrifying part of this spill is it happened in the most ecologically insensitive part of the world it could have happened. The well was deep inside a weapons testing range, where cruise missiles and the like have been tested for decades.

The scale of devastation has been unimaginable. The death toll: 6 birds, 7 gophers, and 38 fish.

Far more animals are killed by wind farms each day.

Oh, the humanity!

[The Mad Monk]

I appreciate the exceptionally mature thread icon he chose for this thread.

He's either an idiot or trying to troll. Actually, he's both.

I especially appreciate his attention to detail. For example, the spill was contained four days ago. The cause was a mechanical failure at an old well and it contaminated 13 hectares. It's almost fully cleaned up already.

The most horrifying part of this spill is it happened in the most ecologically insensitive part of the world it could have happened. The well was deep inside a weapons testing range, where cruise missiles and the like have been tested for decades.

The scale of devastation has been unimaginable. The death toll: 6 birds, 7 gophers, and 38 fish.

Far more animals are killed by wind farms each day.

Oh I'm sure they take care to relocate the beavers and loons before the cratering starts. That's why he's so upset at the oil company's lack of concern.