Oil, oil everywhere, let's all spill some oil

Freighter spilled 75 tonnes of oil into St. Lawrence

14/07/2010 7:40:57 AM

CTV.ca News Staff
A St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation executive says a damaged freighter dumped about 75 tonnes of oil into the waterway near Montreal, though he expects that it will be cleaned up by tomorrow morning.

"There's about 30 people on the water, as we speak, starting to skim and vacuum that oil up," Corfe said during an interview from Montreal on Wednesday morning.

"It's a long process. It'll take probably all day, we'll do an update later on in the afternoon to see where we are, but we expect to be able to restart navigation tomorrow morning sometime."

The Canada Steamship Lines freighter ran aground when it experienced engine failure on Monday morning.

Corfe said the spill was contained quickly as the management corporation, the Coast Guard and the freighter company followed an emergency plan that was already in place to deal with spills.

"Now it's a matter of cleaning up. That's going to go on for probably all day today and maybe into tomorrow morning," said Corfe.

He said it is a rare occurrence for such a large spill to occur.

http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/c...ws/20100714/montreal-ship-spill-follow-100714

 

Grrrrrr!!!

 

As long as I can drive to KFC..

 

It's catching on... Soon they'll start discusing oil spills on ET

 

After that they'll start spilling oil in the Indian ocean because they won't want to feel left out.

 

Thanks for keeping me informed lunar. I learn the news from HF now-a-days

 

No problem. London England or London Ontario?

 

Good god! This is insane.

There is no reason we should not be using alternative fuels.

There are plenty of renewable non food plants that we could be using.

After the energy crisis of the 1970's our government should have devoted considerable time and money to develop them.

We would not be in this mess if they did.

 

energy crisis is a joke.. Its done this ways to force a mofo to buy wind, solar, on their own.. but not everyone can afford it, so we are held hostages by it...

 

England.