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mqr03 07-22-2010 09:45 AM

China Oil Spill... FML!!
 
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BEIJING – China's largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves.

An official warned the spill posed a "severe threat" to sea life and water quality as China's latest environmental crisis spread off the shores of Dalian, once named China's most livable city.

One cleanup worker has drowned, his body coated in crude.

"I've been to a few bays today and discovered they were almost entirely covered with dark oil," said Zhong Yu with environmental group Greenpeace China, who spent the day on a boat inspecting the spill.

"The oil is half-solid and half liquid and is as sticky as asphalt," she told The Associated Press by telephone.

The oil had spread over 165 square miles (430 square kilometers) of water five days since a pipeline at the busy northeastern port exploded, hurting oil shipments from part of China's strategic oil reserves to the rest of the country. Shipments remained reduced Wednesday.

State media has said no more oil is leaking into the sea, but the total amount of oil spilled is not yet clear.

Greenpeace China released photos Wednesday of inky beaches and of straw mats about 2 square meters (21 square feet) in size scattered on the sea, meant to absorb the oil.

Fishing in the waters around Dalian has been banned through the end of August, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

At least one person died during cleanup efforts. A 25-year-old firefighter, Zhang Liang, drowned Tuesday when a wave threw him from a vessel, Xinhua reported.

Officials, oil company workers and volunteers were turning out by the hundreds to clean blackened beaches.

"We don't have proper oil cleanup materials, so our workers are wearing rubber gloves and using chopsticks," an official with the Jinshitan Golden Beach Administration Committee told the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, in apparent exasperation.

"This kind of inefficiency means the oil will keep coming to shore. ... This stretch of oil is really difficult to clean up in the short term."

But 40 oil-skimming boats and about 800 fishing boats were also deployed to clean up the spill, and Xinhua said more than 15 kilometers (9 miles) of oil barriers had been set up to keep the slick from spreading.

China Central Television earlier reported an estimate of 1,500 tons of oil has spilled. That would amount roughly to 400,000 gallons (1,500,000 liters) — as compared with 94 million to 184 million gallons in the BP oil spill off the U.S. coast.

China's State Oceanic Administration released the latest size of the contaminated area in a statement Tuesday.

The cause of the explosion that started the spill was still not clear. The pipeline is owned by China National Petroleum Corp., Asia's biggest oil and gas producer by volume.

Friday's images of 100-foot-high (30-meter-high) flames at China's second largest port for crude oil imports drew the immediate attention of President Hu Jintao and other top leaders. Now the challenge is cleaning up the greasy plume.

"Our priority is to collect the spilled oil within five days to reduce the possibility of contaminating international waters," Dalian's vice mayor, Dai Yulin, told Xinhua on Tuesday.

But an official with the State Oceanic Administration has warned the spill will be difficult to clean up even in twice that amount of time.

Some locals said the area's economy was already hurting.

"Let's wait and see how well they deal with the oil until Sept. 1, if the oil can't be cleaned up by then, the seafood products will all be ruined," an unnamed fisherman told Dragon TV. "No one will buy them in the market because of the smell of the oil."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_pipeline_explosion


:facepalm:

Leopold Stotch 07-22-2010 10:42 AM

man we as a species are ruining the eco system.

hal0g0dv2 07-22-2010 10:44 AM

wtf again

Mugen EvOlutioN 07-22-2010 10:51 AM

great another oil spill



:die::die:

NeoDestinyZ 07-22-2010 11:28 AM

They better not do it here...

BlacknJean 07-22-2010 12:31 PM

fail china

hotjoint 07-22-2010 12:40 PM

Gas prices are going up to 1.50 tomorrow! just watch

1exotic 07-22-2010 12:50 PM

they are at 119.5 already..

like 133.4 for 94 octane

Hondaracer 07-22-2010 01:06 PM

At least the spills happen in places no one cares about :O
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hotjoint 07-22-2010 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by 1exotic (Post 7038903)
they are at 119.5 already..

like 133.4 for 94 octane

glad my car takes regular. Yeah its 119.5 here in surrey

tonyvu 07-22-2010 02:17 PM

91 octane hurts...

2 n r 07-22-2010 02:21 PM

"We don't have proper oil cleanup materials, so our workers are wearing rubber gloves and using chopsticks,"

lol

orange7 07-22-2010 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 7038920)
At least the spills happen in places no one cares about :O
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but it will still affect us

Phat_R 07-22-2010 03:12 PM

that's horrible -- poor people

spoon.ek9 07-22-2010 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by 2 n r (Post 7039027)
"We don't have proper oil cleanup materials, so our workers are wearing rubber gloves and using chopsticks,"

lol

wtf.......

bengy 07-22-2010 03:42 PM

Why are there people swimming in the oil? Foxconn employees?

Porschedog 07-22-2010 04:21 PM

... chopsticks

Not really racist! 07-22-2010 04:21 PM

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State media has said no more oil is leaking into the sea, but the total amount of oil spilled is not yet clear.
hopefully thats accurate...

Volvoman 07-22-2010 05:44 PM

^^^

Was Carlton part of the oil spill as well?

Mugen EvOlutioN 07-22-2010 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Not really racist! (Post 7039193)
hopefully thats accurate...

thats wat they all say


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