Re: Overheard on the scanner

On Jul 26, 3:45 pm, "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
cryptoguy <treifam...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Keith F. Lynch" <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
cryptoguy <treifam...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
While it is probably in lumps, its still emitting whatever lighter
components are present.  After a few days of doing this, Bunker C
tends to sink to the bottom.
Isn't that a good thing?  Does it do any harm on the bottom?
Not particularly, and some.  The tarballs get eaten by marine
organisms, and cause all kinds of havoc.  Seabed life can be
affected for years or decades.  Tarballs can be washed up on
shore, contaminating beaches and shore life for a very long time.

Weren't natural oil seeps very common until people started pumping
the most accessible oil?

They existed, but weren't very common. They still do. There
are plenty in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000127082228.htm

However, there's a big difference between modest amounts
seeping over a long period, into a ecology where the appropriate
lifeforms which can handle it have moved in over years and centuries,
and dumping 419,0000 gallons in one place at one moment, into
an ecology which isn't adapted for it.

Peter Trei
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