Major Oil Spill In Mississippi River Below New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 2) - State officials said Friday they have spotted a huge oil spill near two storage tanks at the town of Venice, on the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans. A flyover by the Department of Environmental Quality revealed what was described as a "major" oil spill.

"Two tanks with the capacity of holding two million barrels appear to be leaking," the statement said. DEQ officials didn't yet know how much oil had spilled into the Mississippi River and were doing further flyovers to determine the extent of the spill, spokesman Darin Mann said.

No further details were given.

Comments

[!]

Is there anything they can do to plug up the leaks ?? That is terrible on top of all the other nightmares.

[angelaberdine]

Sounds like a lotta sabotage been going on down in the quarter.

[blue]

London bridge I am afraid is falling down. But I must stay around and help look after my country.

[blue]

This really is so very terrible, but they seem to have some terrorist hemmed in down there. They can't get out either. Had a lot of things not happend as it did, we, here in the States may have been in for some really bad things. Everything, as bad as it is, happens for the good of them that serve the Lord.

[blue]

Angel, have you repented yet?

[blue]

Angel, you and Sleepy in Houston may be lacking in understanding.

[blue]

I will go on my own for awhile. I must sleep. You will get bored, however. lol blue

[angelaberdine]

Angel, have you repented yet?

Posted by: blue | Sep 3, 2005 12:19:05 AM

Angel, you and Sleepy in Houston may be lacking in understanding.

Posted by: blue | Sep 3, 2005 12:20:54 AM

I will go on my own for awhile. I must sleep. You will get bored, however. lol blue

Posted by: blue | Sep 3, 2005 12:22:56 AM

I have been working with the relief effort all week. What have you done? I do not lack understanding. My husband has gone to help the sick and needy. What did you do while he was dodging bullets and risking his life?

[clintcarter]

Angel do not fret.
Blue is not of this world; didn't you notice?
He/she exists on a higher plane.

[usmcmom]

All I ask in the clean up effort, is that they DO NOT start pumping that sludge out of the streets of NOs before it is run through a filtration system of sorts. At this point, it is ludicrous to worry about the time factor in pumping water out of NO, the damage to infrastructure and buildings is done. I just hope the media stops making it a race of how fast can NOs be cleaned up... let's do this right and not destroy the fishing industry along the Mississippi and Gulf coast to appease some talking-head's fictional time-table.