[Leica] IMG: Miss River Oil Spill in New Orleans

[chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)]

Funny I thought the post was for a beauty pageant, Miss River Oil 
Spill...Hmmm


At 10:47 AM 7/31/2008, you wrote:
>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
> >
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Chris Saganich, M.S.
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