[Newsbot]

Title: China's spreading oil spill a 'severe threat'
Category: Environmental
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2010-07-22 19:28:56

[Strutz]

This is terrible.

$1:

"We don't have proper oil cleanup materials, so our workers are wearing rubber gloves and using chopsticks," an official with the Jinshitan Golden Beach Administration Committee told the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, in apparent exasperation

You have got to be kidding me

[wildrosegirl]

$1:

"The oil spill will pose a severe threat to marine animals, and water quality, and the sea birds,"

Add that to their air quality issues and China won't have to worry about population control for much longer.

I can't believe operations like this (and BP's disaster) were ever approved with NO emergency plans in place. Who the hell was in charge?

We're going to be feeling the effects of this for decades. People just don't seem to learn.

[Dragom]

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

I can't believe operations like this (and BP's disaster) were ever approved with NO emergency plans in place. Who the hell was in charge?

Someone who wanted to make 10 billion dollars, supported by people who wanted to see Gas go down 10 cents a liter. So um... Everyone?

[Khar]

To put it into a more easy number to understand, it's one one hundred and thirty ninth the size of Lake Huron, about a thirteenth the size of PEI's landmass, one seventeenth of the GTA area, or a little bigger than the size of the city of London, Ontario's metro area.

That's what it is at the moment, anyways. From this article and others I've read, it looks like this is expanding in area fairly quickly still. At least for the time being it is fairly tiny compared to the BP occurence.