Hi Todd >Not a complete list to be sure.
Indeed not, thanks for filling it out. There've been a few news stories recently about ships sunk during WWII still causing pollution, more still to come, and about oil spills from 30 years back still causing pollution problems. Also, I recall something about empty oil tankers returning to the Gulf for more causing problems round the Cape by flushing out their tanks (or something?) out at sea beyond the territorial limit. Used to be millions and millions of jackass pengions there, for instance, now there aren't any. In 1978 I was living on an offshore island (Lamma) in Hong Kong, in a village called Sok Kwu Wan at the end of a long, narrow bay, famed for its seafood restaurants - the bay was filled with fish farms, the tidal patterns etc being perfect for it. The island's on the other side of the main shipping channel out of Hong Kong, one of the main shipping ports in the world. There are scores of bouys and navigation beacons in that channel, it must be one of the best-marked bits of ocean there is. One morning (I worked all night at a newspaper) I caught a sampan home across the channel to find a large container ship perched nose-first on a rock at the entrance to the bay. It was called the Adrian Maersk. There was a beacon right there - like a car colliding with a traffic-light. The ship released a whole lot of fuel oil - well, it seemed like a whole lot, but it was nothing compared to a major spill. Killed all the fish though - the fish farmers were doing handstands: Compensation! A double nightmare ensued: first, all the dead fish had to be collected and weighed so it could be paid for; second, the oil had to be cleaned up. Large piles of seriously rotting fish and fuel oil make for a less-than-pleasant background aroma. Foreground aroma, actually. I took a series of photographs of the Chinese workers cleaning up the oil, bare-legged, up to their thighs in the stuff. Very strong, instant and lasting impression it gave: NOT a part of nature at all, the whole thing was pervaded by a deep and most obvious sense of wrongness. Wrong wrong wrong. Utterly wrong too was the idea that money was somehow the correct medium for papering over the mess. Kirk's quite right about this: >Notice many of these are navigational errors. The radar on the Valdez was >broken for at least 6 months prior to its contact with the coast. The ship >owners don't care. Repairs dip into profits. Ships are unsafe. > >Kirk But if we all want our nice wasteful hopelessly unsustainable wanton Western lifestyles intact, we should just be grateful they get us the stuff at all, eh? Never mind how. Omelettes and eggs. Keith >There is the tonnage lost between the first on the list below >(1967) and World War II. > >And then there's the tonnage lost during World War II. > >And then there's the tonnage lost between World Wars I & II. > >And then there's the tonnage lost during World War I. > >And then there's the tonnange dispersed from all non-commercial >or military shipping since the advent of petroleum marine fuels. > >And then there's the tonnage lost from pipeline fractures. > >And then there's the tonnage lost from off-shore oil rig mishaps >and disasters. > >And then there's the tonnage lost from aircraft fuel jettisoning. > >And then there's the tonnage lost from port and shoreline fuel >bunkers. > >And then a person could start thinking about all the tonnage lost >inland. > >Or not and pretend that it's all part of the natural course of >events and continue along the same course. After all, wasn't it >Emerson (among others) who argued that if man is a part of >nature, so too are all his travesties? > >Makes it all okay I guess. > >Todd Swearingen > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> >Cc: <biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 3:26 AM >Subject: [biofuels-biz] CHRONOLOGY - Spanish oil spill latest of >many > > > > >http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/18637/story.ht >m > > > > CHRONOLOGY - Spanish oil spill latest of many > > > > UK: November 18, 2002 > > > > LONDON - A stricken oil tanker has spilled some 3,000 tonnes of >fuel > > oil into the sea off the northwest coast of Spain, a government > > official said last week. > > > > The Bahamas-flagged "Prestige", carrying 77,000 tonnes of oil, >seemed > > to have a crack in one of its oil tanks, a spokesman at the >Emergency > > Coordination Centre in La Coruna said. > > > > Following is a chronology of some previous major oil spills: > > > > 18 March, 1967 - UNITED KINGDOM - The Torrey Canyon ran aground >off > > Cornwall spilling 80,000 tonnes (919,000 barrels) of crude. > > > > 20 March, 1970 - SWEDEN - At least 438,000 barrels of oil >spilled in > > a collision involving the Othello in Tralhavet Bay. > > > > 19 December, 1972 - OMAN - After a collision with Brazilian >tanker > > Horta Barbosa the South Korean tanker Sea Star spilled about >840,000 > > barrels of crude into the Gulf of Oman. > > > > 15 December, 1976 - USA - The Argo Merchant ran aground off >Nantucket > > spilling 183,000 barrels of oil and causing a slick 160 km (100 > > miles) long and 97 km wide. > > > > 25 February, 1977 - The Liberian-registered Hawaiian Patriot >caught > > fire in the Northern Pacific spilling 723,000 barrels. > > > > 16 March, 1978 - FRANCE - About 1.6 million barrels of crude >spilled > > after the Amoco Cadiz ran aground near Portsall in France's >worst > > ever tanker accident. The resulting slick eventually covered >125 > > miles of Breton coast. > > > > 19 Jully, 1979 - TRINIDAD & TOBAGO - About 2.2 million barrels >of > > crude spilled after a collision off Tobago between the Atlantic > > Empress and the Aegean Captain. > > > > 6 August, 1983 - SOUTH AFRICA - Fire broke out on the Spanish >tanker > > Castillo de Bellver and 1.8 million barrels of light crude >burnt off > > the coast at Cape Town. > > > > 24 March, 1989 - USA - The Exxon Valdez hit rocks in Prince >William > > Sound spilling some 240,000 barrels of crude oil onto Alaskan >shores. > > > > 19 December, 1989 - MOROCCO - After explosions and a fire >Iranian > > tanker Kharg-5 was abandoned spilling 70,000 tonnes of crude >oil, > > endangering the coast and oyster beds at Oualidia. > > > > 7 February, 1990 - USA - The tanker, American Trader, leaked >300,000 > > gallons of crude from a gash in the hull causing an oil slick >22 km > > long polluting Bosa Chica, one of southern California's biggest > > nature preserves. > > > > 28 May, 1991 - ANGOLA/LIBERIA - A Liberian-registered >supertanker, > > ABT Summer, leaked oil after an explosion off Angola causing an >oil > > slick 17 nautical miles by three. > > > > 19 September, 1992 - INDONESIA - Liberian-registered tanker >Nagasaki > > Spirit collided with container Ocean Blessing in the Malacca >Straits > > spilling some 12,000 tonnes of crude. > > > > 3 December, 1992 - SPAIN - Greek tanker Aegean Sea ran aground >and > > broke in two near La Coruna spilling most of its 80,000 tonne >cargo > > of oil. > > > > 5 January, 1993 - UNITED KINGDOM - The tanker Braer hit rocks >near > > the coast of the Shetland Islands shedding its cargo of 85,000 >tonnes > > of crude in the worst oil wreck in British waters for 26 years. > > > > 6 March, 1994 - THAILAND - About 105,670 gallons of diesel fuel > > spilled into the sea four miles off the eastern Sriracha coast >after > > oil tanker Visahakit 5 and a cargo ship collided. > > > > 31 March, 1994 - UAE - 15,900 tonnes of crude oil leaked into >the > > Arabian Sea after the Panamanian-flagged Seki collided with the >UAE > > tanker Baynunah 10 miles off the UAE port of Fujairah. > > > > 2 October, 1994 - PORTUGAL - Panamanian tanker, Cercal, spilled >about > > 2,000 tonnes of crude into the sea after striking a rock near >Leixoes > > harbour, in Oporto. > > > > 15 February, 1996 - UK - Liberian-registered Sea Empress hit >rocks > > near Milford Haven, Wales, spilling 40,000 tonnes of oil. > > > > 2 January, 1997 - JAPAN - Russian tanker, the Nakhodka, >containing > > some 19,000 tonnes of oil was torn in two in the Sea of Japan >causing > > one of the worst oil spills in Japan's history. > > > > 13 December, 1999 - FRANCE - The stern of the Maltese tanker >Erika > > sank off the northwest of France after splitting in two. It was > > carrying 25,000 tonnes of viscous fuel oil. > > > > 23 June, 2000 - SOUTH AFRICA - Some 1,400 tonnes of heavy fuel >oil > > leaked from the bulk carrier Treasure off Cape Town prompting >massive > > rescue of Jackass penguins on Dassen and Robben Islands. > > > > 16 January, 2001 - ECUADOR - Ecuadorean-registered ship >Jessica, > > spilled 175,000 gallons of diesel and bunker oil into the sea >off the > > Galapagos Islands in what was seen as one of Galapagos' worst > > environmental disasters. > > > > November 13, 2002 - SPAIN - The Bahamas-flagged tanker >"Prestige", > > carrying 77,000 tonnes of fuel oil, spilled some 3,000 tonnes >into > > the sea off the northwest coast of Spain. > > > > REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! 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