Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It does seems to be more on TV now. They tried raising the broken barge and it ended up spilling more oil. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: <grduprey@mchsi.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Miss River Oil Spill in New Orleans > Chris, > > It seems to get plenty of attention here in Texas, and I see it mentioned > on ABC quite often. > > Gene > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Chris Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> >> >> Does not seem like it's getting allot of national attention, but on >> Wednesday >> morning an oil tanker hit a tugboat pushing a barge full of industrial >> oil down >> the Miss River just west of the Miss River Bridge in New Orleans. 9,000 >> barrels >> went into the river, 400,000 gallons of industrial oil(like diesel) >> spilled into >> the river. This is one of the worst spills on the Miss River. >> >> Saturday night at a wedding I was able to be high enough to still view >> the oil >> slick on the river. At that time only 10% of the oil had be contained. >> The >> sunken barge is located where the bright lights underneath the bridge are >> in >> these images. There are some reflections in the images due to shooting >> through a >> very dark tinted window, but the spill is very noticeable still. >> >> http://www.zoeicaimages.com/OilSpill2008 >> >> D3, 2500iso >> >> While the Coast Guard is once again doing a bang up job, it seems others >> are >> only concerned about the loss of revenue with having to shut down the >> river for >> a few days. Very little is being discussed on the news about >> environmental >> impacts as the spill moves into the wetlands along Louisiana's coast. It >> seems >> very surprising to me whenever oil drilling is discussed nationally that >> a spill >> always seems to follow. >> >> Chris >> NOLA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information