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Environment & Energy

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1. "Nature's Way?" Are they serious? I wonder if

Mon Jan 28, 2013, 01:38 PM

Jan 2013

the drought's impact on the mississippi river levels had any impact. Tighter spaces to go through?

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Oil spills after two barges strike Mississippi River bridge [View all] wtmusic Jan 2013 OP

"Nature's Way?" Are they serious? I wonder if ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2013 #1

The width under the bridge should be constant, HooptieWagon Jan 2013 #2

Not really. Assuming it is deepest in the center ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2013 #9

The passage under a bridge is in the channel. HooptieWagon Jan 2013 #10

Update...after checking map and pix HooptieWagon Jan 2013 #12

I sit in awe when those huge barges move around. ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2013 #13

Isn't a lot of the oil from N. Dakota shipped by barge? NickB79 Jan 2013 #3

That is why we need more pipe lines zeaper Jan 2013 #4

Or less oil NoOneMan Jan 2013 #5

Now, now ... Nihil Jan 2013 #7

I don't need any pipe lines. wtmusic Jan 2013 #8

If properly maintained, pipelines much safer than shipping HooptieWagon Jan 2013 #11