“Not One Drop Of Oil Spilled”? Not Quite

Source: CBS News

It has been a common talking point among advocates of increasing offshore oil drilling that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused no environmental damage when they decimated the oil infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005.

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Ever since President Bush and Sen. John McCain announced last month that they would support expanding drilling beyond currently-allowed offshore leases (and Mr. Bush even signed an executive order allowing it), officials and pundits have continually put forth a dramatic talking point in the media about the safety of offshore drilling, even in the midst of a natural disaster.

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Gee, if so many people believe it, it must be true - except it isn’t.

In May 2006, the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) issued a report stating that as a result of both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the number of pipelines damaged was 457, and the number of offshore platforms destroyed was 113, with a total of 146 oil spills recorded.

A study of environmental impacts written for MMS by Det Norske Veritas and Company and published March 22, 2007 told an even more detailed story.

As a result of both storms, a total volume of 17,652 barrels (or roughly three-quarters of a million gallons) of total petroleum products, of which 13,137 barrels were crude oil and condensate, was spilled from platforms, rigs and pipelines. 4,514 barrels were refined products from platforms and rigs.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/19/opinion/main4275167.shtml

McSame's: about par for this 'puke's course. :D

You would think with all the present capability to dig out prior articles, videos and pictures these Republican nitwits would check for truth before broadcasting.:banghead:

The damage they did to America in abandoning citizens in NO should never be forgotten!

will kick again tomorrow for day crew.

"Frankly, those regions of the south are such shi*tholes, who really cares if oil spills upon their shores."


So, it's not true that oil was spilled, but even if it is true, who cares?


Unbelievable.

Petroleum belongs in the ground, buried way underneath us and sealed up forever. All of the biological diversity on earth depends on the natural segregation of hydrocarbons from the biosphere. Drilling and mining are ruining the balance that nature has provided free and clear. I would be happy to see a petroleum free world. I would gladly ride a horse to work or walk, or bike, or ride a carbon free electric auto. If I rode a horse I would whip it mercilessly and scream at it to mush as loud as I could. (just kidding, lol). Thanks to Dick Cheney maybe people will start considering alternative energy sources.

receives very little press.

So I wonder how far CBS will stay on the ride?

Katrina was the focal event for the present oil price rise, as well? It was if the decision was made at the highest levels of government to use this event to screw as many people as possible.

After three solid weeks of Republican lying about this, CBS comes flying out of the gate like the old grey mare, plodding along to put the facts out before the American people on a Saturday in the middle of July. Well, you can understand it, of course. I mean, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were such obscure, long-ago events (were the internets even invented then?), that it's practically unpossible for anyone to remember them.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9172765/

Hurricane Katrina damaged or displaced an estimated 58 Gulf of Mexico oil platforms and drilling rigs, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

Among those, 30 rigs and platforms have been reported lost. No company breakdown was available, said Tim Sampson, an API spokesman.

One of the more significant reported losses of platforms or rigs came from Houston-based Apache Corp. On Thursday, Apache said it lost eight platforms that produce 7,158 barrels of oil and 12.1 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

That's about 10 percent of the lost oil production and 2 percent of the shut in gas reported earlier this week, said company spokesman Bill Mintz.

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Oh loo. Even CBS said so:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/29/ap/business/mainD8C9ON5O0.shtml

(AP) Hurricane Katrina disrupted Gulf Coast petroleum output and rattled energy markets on Monday, sending oil and natural gas prices soaring and setting the stage for a spike in the retail cost of gasoline.

By the end of the day, more than 700 offshore platforms and rigs had been evacuated, two rigs had drifted away and authorities in Alabama were forced to close a bridge over the Mobile River after it was struck by a runaway platform. Oil futures briefly climbed above $70 a barrel for the first time.

The powerful hurricane roiled the industry at a time when producers worldwide were already struggling to keep up with strong demand, and it threatened to constrain the supply of home heating fuels this winter. The rise in energy prices has already slowed the U.S. economy's growth rate, though domestic fuel consumption is still rising.

The Bush administration said it would consider lending oil from the nation's emergency stockpile to refiners that request it _ Citgo Petroleum Corp. asked for 250,000-500,000 barrels to ensure its Lake Charles, La., refinery does not run out _ and the president of OPEC said he will propose a production increase of 500,000 barrels a day at the cartel's meeting next month. Analysts nervously awaited details on the extent of the damage to the region's platforms, pipelines, refineries and electric grid.

The only thing is that you (the media) have been allowing Republicans to pass this falsehood off as the truth for quite some time. It's a sign of just how rotten our press has become in this country. The Republicans knew this was a lie and yet they had confidence in passing it off as the truth because they also knew our feckless media wouldn't call them on it.

Oh, and why was this moved from LBN?

Jay

Roy Blunt just repeated a variation of this tripe on "Late Edition" and Wolfe Blitzer just went on to the next question as if nothing happened. Disgusting!

Jay

From the Government's own whitehouse.gov site:


http://www.whitehouse.gov/reports/katrina-lessons-learned/chapter1.html

Seems these "not a drop spilled" guys IGNORED their own government's report!

the same thing- Katrina caused NO oil spills. Amazing. Just say it, and it becomes true.

Opinions are one thing, but to blatantly lie is inexcusable.

And it was only 3 friggin' years ago! If they can't remember that far back then the moran element has hit an entirely new level of absurdity.

accept it as fact.