Democracy for Vancouver

Evidently New Orleans isn’t done getting the shit kicked out of it by the U.S. commerce & government/Mother Nature tag team:

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard closed a 12-mile stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a collision early Wednesday a tugboat pushing one barge and a 600-foot tanker.

Nobody was injured, but more than 419,000 gallons of heavy, almost tar-like fuel oil spilled from the barge, said Lt. Cdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau, a Coast Guard spokeswoman.

The double-hulled tanker Tintomara was loaded with about 4.2 million gallons of biodiesel and nearly 1.3 million gallons of styrene, but was not leaking, said Michael Wilson, president of ship management company Laurin Maritime (America) Inc. in Houston.
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The fresh water intake for New Orleans’ west bank is below the spill but the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board has enough water stored to last a day to a day and a half, spokeswoman Marcia St. Martin told WWL-TV. The intake for the east bank is above the site, she said.

Sounds like the good old days.

Oil covers water like paint covers a wall: one gallon will cover about 350 square feet.

419,000 gallons of oil = 146,650,000 million square feet of coverage.

That’s almost 3,400 acres - all covered in heavy, tar like, caustic sludge, coming to rest on beaches and bridges and levees, to be worn and ingested by birds and fish and gators and eagles and even humans.

But sure, Sen. McCain - let’s drill for more oil in and near our sources of food and agriculture and clean drinking water! What could possibly go wrong?

FUCK. FUCK. FUCK.