SOTT – by Heather Nolan, The Times-Picayune
About 420 gallons of oil spilled into the Mississippi River near Convent after a multi-ship collision around 4 p.m. Monday (April 6), according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Coast Guard officials said the Privocean, a 751-foot bulk carrier, broke free from its mooring, drifted downriver and struck the Texas, a 98-foot towing vessel. The Texas was moored at the time.
The Privocean continued to drift down river and struck the Bravo, an 816-foot tank ship, as it was unloading crude oil. That caused an oil spill, both on deck and in the river, Coast Guard officials said.
About 420 gallons of oil spilled into the river, and about 126 gallons spilled on the Bravo’s deck, the Coast Guard said. The oil spill on deck was contained and is being cleaned, officials said.
The ship is taking on water, but is anchored by two tugboats.
The Privocean is anchored at mile marker 162.
Officials said the Mississippi River is closed from mile marker 163 to mile marker 154. The Coast Guard said it has informed down-river parish officials to protect municipal water supplies.
The cause of the collision is under investigation.
So that makes the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean AND now the Mississippi River contaminated with oil.
Well, it looks like our water supply is basically done for. I think there was even an oil spill in the Great Lakes not too long ago, wasn’t there?
It certainly is reassuring they had a meter on that 420 gallons they spilled into the river!
CALL SENATORS & CONGRESSMAN Texas A&M some years ago developed a powder that is clean and biological safe that eats oil. I saw the stuff and it works it soaks up oil and has no ;eft overs except CO-2 which plants need to breathe.
DO NOT LET TREE LOVERS SCREAM to you about Carbon Emissions CO-2 They have been brain washed to believe that co-2 is bad. It is not at all Plants trees soak it up and release Oxygen for people to breathe. And the plants also grow better.
isn’t it amazing that for hundreds of years no oil was spilled anywhere by our ancestors….
and now, in our modern day, we are so f#@king smart that assholes have spilled thousands and thousands of gallons of oil, repeatedly, pretty much everywhere.
LAND AND SEA has been contaminated….
Look around.
ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET IS IN DANGER.
Plant, animal, human and sea life.
ALL of it is poisoned, and continues to be poisoned.
Makes me wonder if those poisoning the planet are human…
They don’t seem concerned for the safety of themselves or their own
children and grandchildren….. why is that?
How can you “close” the Mississippi River?