Thread: Kimberly Oil slick

Originally Posted by LR09WA

Hi Every one can you please show your support for this cause

Actually, no.

I drive vehicles that use oil and fuel derived from oil.
So I need people to produce oil. No oil and most of us would be stuffed.
I accept that there will at times be oil spills - fact of life.
While I don't like it, what would you have me do without oil?

Let's face it, there are lots of things in this world that we may disagree with but can we live without it?
A pet hate of mine is using child labour (and the appalling working conditions) in some countries, but do I still buy stuff made in China? Yes.

The Montara blowout may be a bad oil spill in terms of quantity of oil lost, but in because of the distance offshore and the type of oil, it is one of the most innocuous in Australia's history as far as damage to wildlife is concerned. Certainly far less than the recent oil spill on the Queensland coast resulting from the loss of containers from a ship (think about the volume of sea traffic travelling through the Great Barrier Reef). This panic about Montara is simply a beat-up.

No activity is risk-free, and blowouts in offshore (or onshore) oil drilling happen, but are very rare, and this is by no means the worst offshore Australia - probably the worst was in Gippsland nearly forty years ago, but none have been significant environmental problems compared to oil spills resulting from even minor shipping incidents such as illegal washing of ballast tanks.

John

oil floats on water so how is it effecting the marine life in the water

That one doesn't take much thought...
For starters, marine mammals and reptiles need to come to the surface to breathe, in the process ingesting the poisonous oil.

Then there are the seabirds which dive for food...