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Salt Lake City's Minature Oil Spill

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UPDATED: Monday, June 14, 2010 18:24
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 2:25 PM

Salt Lake City Chevron takes a leaf from BP's playbook. 21,000 gallons spilled into the local river system.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=11142432

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Saturday, June 12, 2010 2:34 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Thankfully, the Obama administration has been on it since day one....doing everything and anything it can possibly do.

" Being correct does not excuse a violation of form " - Ducky, NCIS.

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Saturday, June 12, 2010 3:13 PM

DREAMTROVE

Youn need some fucking proper fucking booming

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Saturday, June 12, 2010 6:08 PM

BYTEMITE

No kidding. I think we never expected something like this, even though we have some damn refineries on the south end of town. I'd have to have a look at our interactive map, but I do know we have an oil pipeline running from the Uintas.

In any case, all the pictures are like one line of absorbent boom, and not even strung properly across the river.

They did manage to get on it pretty quick when they first heard about it and temporarily dammed up the creek, but it still flowed uninterrupted for a few hours.

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Saturday, June 12, 2010 6:10 PM

BYTEMITE

I'm going to the zoo tomorrow, that's where they took the birds they caught. I doubt that I'll be able to hands on (Niki's mentioned something about special training), but I might be able to get pictures of some of the wildlife. There's a lot of dead fish, but people managed to respond and evacuate a lot of the waterfowl along the river already fairly quickly.

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Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:02 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

This spill makes me glad that the industry is being re-examined, and that some drilling has been halted. Clearly we need to figure out a better way of operating. It's apparently not just one company or one rig, but a failure of the industry at large to deliver this energy source safely and without incident.

--Anthony

"On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you." --Auraptor

"This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on." --Fremdfirma

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Monday, June 14, 2010 2:01 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Thankfully, the Obama administration has been on it since day one....doing everything and anything it can possibly do.

It's funny - you keep saying that, as if you saying it will magically make it seem like anyone else said it.

Mike

On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you. --Auraptor

This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on. --Fremdfirma

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Monday, June 14, 2010 2:03 PM

KWICKO

Byte, what was it Frem said a couple weeks ago about the trifecta, and the notion that a fully-loaded tanker truck would crash and explode soon, probably taking out an overpass in the process?

Well, this isn't exactly a tanker truck, but it seems to fit the pattern of events predicted.

Mike

On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you. --Auraptor

This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on. --Fremdfirma

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Monday, June 14, 2010 3:07 PM

DREAMTROVE

Mike, frem's trifecta post, can you link the thread? Thanks

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Monday, June 14, 2010 3:19 PM

KIRKULES

I had an old Oldsmobile that leaked about five gallons a year. I wonder how much oil is leaked every year by American automobiles. I own Japanese cars now partially because even in their old age they don't leak.

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Monday, June 14, 2010 3:59 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Mike, frem's trifecta post, can you link the thread? Thanks

2008
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=34835

2010
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=43427

Thereyago

-F

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Monday, June 14, 2010 4:22 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

"I do believe PN has a point, even though it could not have POSSIBLY have affected them, especially so quickly - all the stations up here jumped their prices too, and upon investigation WITHOUT an increase in their supply cost."

Hello,

My father used to complain about this all the time. Some blip would happen to the cost of oil acquisition somewhere, and the next day the gas prices would jump. And he'd say, "This is robbery! This gas was already here before that happened. It was acquired and distributed at the old cost. Whatever their increase in oil prices, it should only be impacting the new oil currently being purchased, not the oil we already have!"

He could go on about it for quite some time. Sometimes he'd also rant about artificial shortages and explain to me the price-control policies of diamond mines.

--Anthony

"On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you." --Auraptor

"This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on." --Fremdfirma

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Monday, June 14, 2010 6:24 PM

BYTEMITE

Yeah, I would pretty much agree with Frem's assessment. Ever since he mentioned it, I figured that was the real reason behind the gulf oil spill.

I didn't follow up on this, because it seemed like people weren't too interested, but I did go to the zoo yesterday. No chance at seeing the birds, but I did ask about them. They washed about 60 that day, and a hundred and something on saturday, the first day.

The fish are pretty much gone in the creek now, but the spill was stopped before it got into our major river or the wetlands or the great salt lake.

Guess I'll hear more about it at work tomorrow. I'll post anything I find out.

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