EXXON Valdez, Greatest Oil Spill in History
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Yes, this may indeed deserve the very highest quality Houdini Hypocrisy label. How else can Number 35 wiggle into the Top 20 list?
Perhaps a textbook example of superb partisan and hypocritically hyped Misinformation Campaigns waged at the expense of all Americans, most who unfortunately do not understand the assault being waged on them
And maybe perpetuated by disproportionately large users of oil.
Would it surprise you, assuming you have not already turned away in Partisan Purity, that according to ITOPF, it was number 35 in size, dwarfed by the larger 34 by a factor of maybe a hundred. Check my math.
Be sure to check out Table 3, and ask how can this be? Notice this table lists the first 20 oil spills then jumps to number 35. A nod to political correctness and a testament to the lucrative partisan misinformation campaigns of those professional misinformers who get paid to inform us.Table 3: Major Oil Spills Since 1967 (Non Military Accidents Only). For more oil spills click here.
| Position | Shipname | Year | Location | Spill Size (tonnes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlantic Empress | 1979 | Off Tobago, West Indies | 287,000 |
| 2 | ABT Summer | 1991 | 700 nautical miles off Angola | 260,000 |
| 3 | Castillo de Bellver | 1983 | Off Saldanha Bay, South Africa | 252,000 |
| 4 | Amoco Cadiz | 1978 | Off Brittany, France | 223,000 |
| 5 | Haven | 1991 | Genoa, Italy | 144,000 |
| 6 | Odyssey | 1988 | 700 nautical miles off Nova Scotia, Canada | 132,000 |
| 7 | Torrey Canyon | 1967 | Scilly Isles, UK | 119,000 |
| 8 | Sea Star | 1972 | Gulf of Oman | 115,000 |
| 9 | Irenes Serenade | 1980 | Navarino Bay, Greece | 100,000 |
| 10 | Urquiola | 1976 | La Coruna, Spain | 100,000 |
| 11 | Hawaiian Patriot | 1977 | 300 nautical miles off Honolulu | 95,000 |
| 12 | Independenta | 1979 | Bosphorus, Turkey | 95,000 |
| 13 | Jakob Maersk | 1975 | Oporto, Portugal | 88,000 |
| 14 | Braer | 1993 | Shetland Islands, UK | 85,000 |
| 15 | Khark 5 | 1989 | 120 nautical miles off Atlantic coast of Morocco | 80,000 |
| 16 | Aegean Sea | 1992 | La Coruna, Spain | 74,000 |
| 17 | Sea Empress | 1996 | Milford Haven, UK | 72,000 |
| 18 | Katina P | 1992 | Off Maputo, Mozambique | 72,000 |
| 19 | Nova | 1985 | Off Kharg Island, Gulf of Iran | 70,000 |
| 20 | Prestige | 2002 | Off Galicia, Spain | 63,000 |
| 35 | Exxon Valdez | 1989 | Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA | 37,000 |
Comment by Jason Blanchard on 25 June 2008:
I”m not surprised at all. We Americans HAVE to be in every list….
To me, it illustrates the Not in My Backyard mentality. We are perfectly happy spilling oil around the world to meet our demand, but don’t allow offshore drilling in the US for the exact same reason. If you want something to eat, you’ll have to go into the kitchen sooner or later.
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Comment by Richard Cochrane on 25 June 2008:
Jason - An environmental geographer based in Australia and Jamaica contends and had written papers that warming is more a matter of ambient water vapor than CO2, and has achieved some efficacy although global government types can find no way to exploit that Inconvenience” for their political purposes. AL GORE’S hypocrisy is nothing new.
Comment by Jason Blanchard on 25 June 2008:
I’ve read much on water vapor, and agree it’s much more likely to cause warming than CO2. Vapor variations, and intensity of Sun spots are the common sense choices.
Be careful though…I’d hate for my hot showers to be outlawed…
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