Burn mulled for US wetlands soiled by oil spill

[salazarmms]

Source: AFP

In order to protect the coast's vulnerable ecosystem, the coast guard plans to place containment booms in the marsh, use low-pressure water to flush out the oil and capture the mess using a skimmer and other equipment.

As a "last ditch effort," the coast guard was considering burning the affected marshes, Stanton said.

"We've done that before, that's an acceptable tactic to remove oil from the marsh, but you can only do that once," he said. "So you want to have a lot of oil before you do it. The marsh grass will regrow."

British oil giant BP said earlier it was now capturing 5,000 barrels of oil, or 210,000 gallons, per day and acknowledged that an undetermined additional quantity was spewing out of the sunken rig's ruptured well.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100520-burn-mulled-us-wetlands-soiled-oil-spill

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Get your breathing masks if you live in SE FL. Containment booms won't work. Lots of burning ahead.

[aquart]

1. God help them all.

And God get BP, because it's certain we won't bother.

[DeSwiss]

2. Who knew that we'd actually be the ones to.....

...supply the fuel for Armageddon?



K&R

[Kolesar]

3. OMG, more material for the deluded charismatic evangelist preachers...EOM

[DeSwiss]

5. Yeah well.....

...their other End-O-The-World stuff was getting kinda stale.

[saigon68]

4. acknowledged that an undetermined additional quantity was spewing

CRIMINALS

[swilton]

6. So they burn it

It won't resolve the problem or stop the contamination until they STOP the leak! DUH!:wtf:

[Thor_MN]

7. Idiots.... First you rape and pillage, THEN you burn.

Dang Brits never did learn anything from us Vikings.