CNN Breaking: Huge, Major Oil Spill on Mississippi River...

[VolcanoJen]

... downstream from New Orleans.

Up to two million barrels are leaking into the river.

OMG.

AP Link:

Big Oil Spill Spotted Near Tanks on Miss.

NEW ORLEANS - A huge oil spill was spotted near two storage tanks on the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans, state officials said Friday.

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The oil was seen in a flyover to the Venice area by the Department of Environmental Quality.

"Two tanks with the capacity of holding 2 million barrels appear to be leaking," the department said in a statement.

No further details were given.

[ender]

1. oh my god, call in the army!

SAVE THE OIL!!!!

[Corgigal]

2. Don't worry Bush is on the way

5 days late but will wave his magic wand.

[Zomby Woof]

3. Fuckin' jebus on a pogo stick

With balloons.

[VolcanoJen]

4. The spill was seen from the air... could cause major environmental....

... damage to the area.

OMG!! This is horrible.

[Halliburton]

5. I'm George W Bush and I approved this oil spill

[LSK]

6. BUSH: "quick, someone get me a straw!"

[qanda]

7. Maybe Bush will get back to work now

Instead of hopping from photo-op to photo-op!

[leftofthedial]

8. that's why the NG is finally moving in

[earth mom]

34. No doubt! eom

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. That's just lovely....

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Save New Orleans, then save this country!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm

[spuddonna]

10. fuck... ok, waiting for the river to catch fire...

Jesus... Have mercy...

[11cents]

11. Deploy the cheney!

It will swoop over the river and suck up the oil into its bottomless gullet.

[1932]

12. It won't take them five days to solve that problem.

[VolcanoJen]

13. This could be even more calamitous than the Hurricane, couldn't it?

Couldn't it render the region uninhabitable? When will the fires start???

O.M.G.

[1932]

16. Think about that question.

[VolcanoJen]

18. You know what I mean.... even the habitable areas.

A bad situation just got "worser."

[Pacifist Patriot]

20. Reword that in the past tense, shall we?

[PretzelWarrior]

14. well now that there's oil in the picture...US govmt will be there

nothing they hate worse than losing oil. and that includes their anxiety over losing protean life in the form of stem cells.

[durablend]

23. Oil spills out, price goes way back up

I don't see a problem

:sarcasm:

[pauldavid]

15. Pictures? Screen shots?

[VolcanoJen]

17. Nothing yet... just reported on CNN.

I'll update if they report back about the spill.

CNN did call it a "major, serious spill."

[Fatima]

19. ,,,now watch this drive.

nt

[coffeenap]

21. Is this a result of getting the oil distribution system back on line

before it was safe to do so? For, lets see, money??????????

[VolcanoJen]

24. Sounds like they were storage tanks.

Hey, didn't Smirky just tell the press corps to prepare for "sacrifices" because of the "oil supply"?

[sexybomber]

28. Wow, what a coincidence

Can't see how those two are connected...

</:sarcasm:>

[The Magistrate]

22. As Usual, Ma'am

Things can always get worse....

[pauldavid]

25. Things can get way f@$K!ng worse

There are too many things to count that can go wrong. Lets hope as few of them as possible do, as the situation has already gotten far worse then it needed to be

[sattahipdeep]

26. Orleans Locks

[never_get_over_it]

27. OK I give up

its the end days - do you know any Christians who are not accounted for maybe they got raptured up and we're still here - more good news

[Just Me]

29. This has got to be the worst disaster suffered by this nation.

Sadly.

[VolcanoJen]

31. Jack Cafferty says it is...

... and he's older than I am.

Definitely the worst disaster in my lifetime.

[understandinglife]

33. 2nd only to December 12, 2000.

Peace.

[AverageJoe]

35. Without that disaster

this one might not have happened.

[Kukesa]

36. How about November 4, 2004? n/t

[VolcanoJen]

30. Texas Oil Spill Teams Head To New Orleans

Next up from The Chimp Emperor: "Nobody could have predicted that oil would be spilled into the Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina."

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/1715791.html

[alphafemale]

32. I feel sick. Literally sick to my stomach. nt

[daleo]

37. Quit rescuing the people, rescue the oil!

That will be the cry heard from the Bush administration.

"If we don't rescue that oil terrorists might get it and use it against us."

[sattahipdeep]

38. They haven't turned off the gas mains? n/t

[VolcanoJen]

39. Update.... SITUATION GRIM, nobody can get there!

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16477262-1702,00.html

TWO oil storage tanks, damaged by Hurricane Katrina, have spilled millions of barrels of oil into a marsh and wildlife refuge south of New Orleans, officials said overnight.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality believes the two tanks, located in an oil storage, each contained two million barrels of oil, said spokesman Rodney Mallett.
The spill occurred near Venice, 120 kilometres South of New Orleans, in a peninsula that includes a wildlife refuge.

"We flew over in a plane and noticed an oil lake near Venice," said Rodney Mallett, a DEQ spokesman. The oil spilled into a marsh between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

The site is not accessible, making it impossible to clean up, Mallett told AFP. There are no people near the spill, but it is "an environmental risk," he said.

"Nobody can get there," he said. "We can't get there by boat, we can't get there driving, so all we can do is fly over and say, 'damn, look, there's an oil lake."'

[dave29]

40. 'damn, look, there's an oil lake.'

jesus

[VolcanoJen]

41. Can you fucking believe this???!!!!??????

Sorry about my French.

[dave29]

42. In Bush's America

it was only a matter of time

[VolcanoJen]

43. Texas oil spill teams were sent out yesterday and will arrive tonight....

... they were dispatched well ahead of the actual oil spill, so when Bush says "nobody knew oil would be spilled into the Missippippi River," we'll all know he's lying.

[dave29]

45. Can we rename it Dick Cheney National Wildlife Refuge??

I think maybe under the oil lake will be his new secret undiscolsed location

[VolcanoJen]

44. I just re-read that. TWO oil storage tanks, EACH containing TWO MILLION..

.. barrels of oil.

[dave29]

46. yup - and they can't get to it.

They can just look at it.

[VolcanoJen]

49. Ooooooh look!!!! OIL!!!!

We're just looking... we're just watching.

Yes... right.

Sure.

[oioioi]

52. Exxon Valdez carried 1.2 Million Barrels.

The 987foot ship, second newest in Exxon Shipping Company's 20-tanker fleet, was loaded with 53,094,5 10 gallons (1,264,155 barrels) of North Slope crude oil bound for Long Beach, California.

http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/facts/details.html

[karlrschneider]

51. So it's downstream from NOLA....a bit less horrible than if upstream.

:eyes:

[VolcanoJen]

53. A bit. Just a bit. On a slow news day, this would be Story #1.

And you know it.

[Tyranny_R_US]

47. OH NO SAVE THE OIL!!!!!

THE PRECIOUS GLORIOUS OIL!

[VolcanoJen]

54. Can't save the oil, but you could save the people and wildlife affected...

... by the spill.

Sadly, rescue workers have their hands full.

This disaster is of epic proportions, and this oil spill just adds to the misery.

[jus_the_facts]

48. The once Big Easy is now The Big Greasy....and death to America.....

"They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," she said. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."

[VolcanoJen]

50. It's an environmental disaster of enormous proportions.

It isn't just about Bush/Cheney/Halliburton and their love for Precious, Precious Oil.

This spill affected a wildlife refuge and will affect our collective pocketbooks soon.