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Hurricane Katrina – Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills

December 12, 2007/9 Comments/in Oil Spill /by John Amos

Speaking of oil spills, SkyTruth images revealed significant spills covering a large area of the northern Gulf of Mexico in the wake of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. At the time, nobody was talking about what had happened to the 4,000 offshore oil platforms – and 34,000 miles of pipeline on the seafloor – when […]

San Francisco Bay – Cosco Busan Oil Spill

December 12, 2007/in Oil Spill /by John Amos

On November 7 a transoceanic container ship called the Cosco Busan hit one of the supports for the SF – Oakland Bay Bridge, tearing a big gash in the side of the vessel and spilling 58,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil into the Bay. At first the Coast Guard seriously underestimated the size of the […]