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Originally Posted by userid605 1.) I was responding to the others not you so I was answering all the previous arguments.
2.) Age has no affect on the argument, the legitimacy of the petition, and is a poor way to try to discredit someone.
3.) If all your only objection is ANWR thats fine, don't sign the petition. From all I have read and researched (and others) Drilling can be done in ANWR that is safe for the environment, and beneficial to the American people. Several days ago I added a page to my site about environmentally safe drilling.
4.) I'm not sure if you mean by "this is the end of the subject" to mean you expect me to give up promoting the petition at your command, but it really doesn't matter. You can take your qualifying age, arrogance, and your "be all, end all" attitude to somewhere else if you'd like. I never said or pretended to be a supreme authority on the subject, but I have done my research and am always open to new information from others. I did agree with some of the comments made so I gave what I did and still do believe as no one has had real backing to their arguments. Again I am always open to new information if anyone has seen a new credible article source on the subject I would be happy to read it and possibly add it to the site, but thus far you have only tried to force your opinion. Which I respect having your own opinion even while differing from mine I would appreciate the same respect. |
All oil stays in the US(guaranteed) and no ANWAR or similar sensitive region ...Then I will sign.
Oil Spills and Disasters 1967March 18, Cornwall, Eng.: Torrey Canyon ran aground, spilling 38 million gallons of crude oil off the Scilly Islands.
1976Dec. 15, Buzzards Bay, Mass.: Argo Merchant ran aground and broke apart southeast of Nantucket Island, spilling its entire cargo of 7.7 million gallons of fuel oil.
1977April, North Sea: blowout of well in Ekofisk oil field leaked 81 million gallons.
1978March 16, off Portsall, France: wrecked supertanker
Amoco Cadiz spilled 68 million gallons, causing widespread environmental damage over 100 mi of Brittany coast.
1979June 3, Gulf of Mexico: exploratory oil well Ixtoc 1 blew out, spilling an estimated 140 million gallons of crude oil into the open sea. Although it is one of the largest known oil spills, it had a low environmental impact.
July 19, Tobago: the
Atlantic Empress and the
Aegean Captain collided, spilling 46 million gallons of crude. While being towed, the
Atlantic Empress spilled an additional 41 million gallons off Barbados on Aug. 2.
1980March 30, Stavanger, Norway: floating hotel in North Sea collapsed, killing 123 oil workers.
1983Feb. 4, Persian Gulf, Iran: Nowruz Field platform spilled 80 million gallons of oil.
Aug. 6, Cape Town, South Africa: the Spanish tanker
Castillo de Bellver caught fire, spilling 78 million gallons of oil off the coast.
1988July 6, North Sea off Scotland: 166 workers killed in explosion and fire on Occidental Petroleum's
Piper Alpha rig in North Sea; 64 survivors. It is the world's worst offshore oil disaster.
Nov. 10, Saint John's, Newfoundland: Odyssey spilled 43 million gallons of oil.
1989March 24, Prince William Sound, Alaska: tanker
Exxon Valdez hit an undersea reef and spilled 10 million–plus gallons of oil into the water, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Dec. 19, off Las Palmas, the Canary Islands: explosion in Iranian supertanker, the
Kharg-5, caused 19 million gallons of crude oil to spill into Atlantic Ocean about 400 mi north of Las Palmas, forming a 100-square-mile oil slick.
1990June 8, off Galveston, Tex.: Mega Borg released 5.1 million gallons of oil some 60 nautical miles south-southeast of Galveston as a result of an explosion and subsequent fire in the pump room.
1991Jan. 23–27, southern Kuwait: during the Persian Gulf War, Iraq deliberately released 240–460 million gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf from tankers 10 mi off Kuwait. Spill had little military significance. On Jan. 27, U.S. warplanes bombed pipe systems to stop the flow of oil.
April 11, Genoa, Italy: Haven spilled 42 million gallons of oil in Genoa port.
May 28, Angola: ABT Summer exploded and leaked 15–78 million gallons of oil off the coast of Angola. It's not clear how much sank or burned.
1992March 2, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan: 88 million gallons of oil spilled from an oil well.
1993Aug. 10, Tampa Bay, Fla.: three ships collided, the barge
Bouchard B155, the freighter
Balsa 37, and the barge
Ocean 255. The
Bouchard spilled an estimated 336,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil into Tampa Bay.
1994Sept. 8, Russia: dam built to contain oil burst and spilled oil into Kolva River tributary. U.S. Energy Department estimated spill at 2 million barrels. Russian state-owned oil company claimed spill was only 102,000 barrels.
1996Feb. 15, off Welsh coast: supertanker
Sea Empress ran aground at port of Milford Haven, Wales, spewed out 70,000 tons of crude oil, and created a 25-mile slick.
1999Dec. 12, French Atlantic coast: Maltese-registered tanker
Erika broke apart and sank off Britanny, spilling 3 million gallons of heavy oil into the sea.
2000Jan. 18, off Rio de Janeiro: ruptured pipeline owned by government oil company, Petrobras, spewed 343,200 gallons of heavy oil into Guanabara Bay.
Nov. 28, Mississippi River south of New Orleans: oil tanker
Westchester lost power and ran aground near Port Sulphur, La., dumping 567,000 gallons of crude oil into lower Mississippi. Spill was largest in U.S. waters since
Exxon Valdez disaster in March 1989.
2002Nov. 13, Spain: Prestige suffered a damaged hull and was towed to sea and sank. Much of the 20 million gallons of oil remains underwater.
2003July 28, Pakistan: The
Tasman Spirit, a tanker, ran aground near the Karachi port, and eventually cracked into two pieces. One of its four oil tanks burst open, leaking 28,000 tons of crude oil into the sea.
2004Dec. 7, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: A major storm pushed the M/V
Selendang Ayu up onto a rocky shore, breaking it in two. 337,000 gallons of oil were released, most of which was driven onto the shoreline of Makushin and Skan Bays.
2005Aug.-Sept., New Orleans, Louisiana: The Coast Guard estimated that more than 7 million gallons of oil were spilled during Hurricane Katrina from various sources, including pipelines, storage tanks and industrial plants.
2006June 19, Calcasieu River, Louisiana: An estimated 71,000 barrels of waste oil were released from a tank at the CITGO Refinery on the Calcasieu River during a violent rain storm.
July 15, Beirut, Lebanon: The Israeli navy bombs the Jieh coast power station, and between three million and ten million gallons of oil leaks into the sea, affecting nearly 100 miles of coastline. A coastal blockade, a result of the war, greatly hampers outside clean-up efforts.
August 11th, Guimaras island, The Philippines: A tanker carrying 530,000 gallons of oil sinks off the coast of the Philippines, putting the country's fishing and tourism industries at great risk. The ship sinks in deep water, making it virtually unrecoverable, and it continues to emit oil into the ocean as other nations are called in to assist in the massive clean-up effort.
2007December 7, South Korea: Oil spill causes environmental disaster, destroying beaches, coating birds and oysters with oil, and driving away tourists with its stench. The
Hebei Spirit collides with a steel wire connecting a tug boat and barge five miles off South Korea's west coast, spilling 2.8 million gallons of crude oil. Seven thousand people are trying to clean up 12 miles of oil-coated coast