Quick: There’s an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. What do you do?
Mon, March 17, 2008
Posted in Alaska News
There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to arctic shipping. We know traffic in the region is increasing dramatically, but experts don’t know how likely a shipping-related oil spill might be in the Arctic or what it would take to clean it up. A workshop this week at the University of New Hampshire is aimed at getting a handle on these issues.
Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
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[...] it can be dark all day, is a very different scenario that hasn’t been explored yet.” Alaska Public Radio has an interview with Kinner about the workshop. Written by [...]
“Quick: There’s an oil spill…” Well, there won’t be much you can do as long as Exxon leads the way. We’ve already seen that they are not interested in taking responsibility for any damages to our environment and if we let them get away with it why not everyone else, here or anywhere else.
why not just add more injury, and set it on fire and add a little more global warming.
Please check http://www.lamor.com we are the only company in the WORLD with technology suited to recover oil spills in artic conditions ; visit us at the international oil spill conference in Savannah Georgia on May 4th
Alonso de Olbadia from Lamor writes that Lamor sells equipment that works in the Arctic. I don’t think so. Shell Oil bought Lamor equipment and the US District Court declared in Sept 07 that Shell could not drill off Alaska. Shell had invested $300 million by Dec 07:
http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/story/9234608p-9150246c.html
The 2006 paper Öffshore Oil Spill Response in Dynamic Ice Conditions concludes that no existing technology works in such conditions. In fact, there is no evidence coming from Arctic and ice oil spill people who are not selling equipment that anything works in the Arctic.