BP Exxon Mobil & ConocoPhillips:

[Earth_First]

Initial BP reports:

21,000 GALLONS: Prudhoe Bay's sixth-largest cleanup has crews busy.

http://www.adn.com/money/story/7510267p-7421918c.html

Today it is reported:

Cleanup workers who have been at the site have recovered 56,070 gallons of an oil-water mixture, according to a Department of Environmental Conservation report issued Tuesday morning. Officials are expected to calculate the entire spill size by Wednesday, according to the department.

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=uri:2006-03-07T215129Z_01_N07401337_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-ALASKA-PRUDHOE.xml&pageNumber=1&summit=

Yet whistleblowers claim as much as 800,000 gallons are unaccounted for:

However, whistleblowers who have access to meters which monitor flow into and out of the pipeline, say the meters show there are about 800,000 gallons missing, which will make it the second largest spill in alaska.

http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=267

Yet the media is eerily silent about the entire situation...what will tommorrow bring?

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Kick

:kick:

[Lori Price CLG]

2. Kick, and recommending for 'Greatest' page. n/t

[Maestro]

3. Good God! I haven't watched the news and I didn't know.

Disgusting.

[Earth_First]

4. You didn't miss this on the news. It wasn't reported. n/t

[troubleinwinter]

7. "...the second largest spill in Alaska." "It wasn't reported"

"You didn't miss this on the news. It wasn't reported."

I have no FUCKING words... just anger and disgust. The word "news" is obsolete. No such thing. Let's just call it the Daily Vacuum.

[northofdenali]

5. I lived through the Exxon Valdez and worked on cleanup.

This ain't no way, no how, anywhere close. Cleanup is much more stringent, is begun quickly and newer techniques make for a much softer environmental impact.

Not that this excuses BP, at fault because of their refusal to upgrade and maintain their feeder lines. Nor does it lessen the fact that there is a blow to the environment, a hard one. I've travelled ANWR, the Haul Road, Prudhoe and most of the North Slope. Anywhere the oil companies touch, they make ugly.

But at least we now have the techniques to lessen the blow.

[hootinholler]

6. Sorry, I went to the spinwatch link,

I can't connect those dots. Little help please?

-Hoot

[Pachamama]

8. HEY BP! How big is your CARBON FOOTPRINT???????

:eyes:

They ask this question in a commercial running on TV.....acting as if they are good environmental stewards....

:puke:

PS: I by the way only heard about this spill here on DU - nowhere on the news....scary....

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Bush's spies will zoom right in on a thread about the environment

Save a whale go to Gitmo! "Only Terra-ists care about the environment!" You're either with the polluters or against them!