PlayoffHockey Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Paper Towels : The Industry Standard For State Of The Art Oil Spill Clean Up new photos and video from the Arkansas spill showing a scene so bad it's surreal: Oil is now in nearby Lake Conway's wetlands, either intentionally diverted by Exxon to keep it out of sight and away from the (few members of the) media (who have managed to sneak into the area), or naturally drained there from the company's power washing of streets and sidewalks. There is nothing quite like the sight of their solution: a ragged mess of paper towels, specially designed to soak up oil but not water, laid hopefully on the putrid ground. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_wQpag6og Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aladeen Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:D Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Someone probably told them it was the quicker picker-upper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:D Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Someone call up Chad Sexington and let's get him on top of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayoffHockey Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 Enbridge wont even have paper towels for B.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Seen those before used on other oil spills. They're not paper towels, but they do absorb a lot of oil. Still, there are better, but more expensive products available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTania Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 hopefully new technology can help the clean up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayoffHockey Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 Seen those before used on other oil spills. They're not paper towels, but they do absorb a lot of oil. Still, there are better, but more expensive products available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Exxon is bigger, and supposed to have more resources for these kinds of spills. Imagine how Embridge would deal with a spill? If they did at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaK Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 out of wetlands ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*VaNcOuVeRCaNuCkS* Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Change the title of the thread They are not paper towels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayoffHockey Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 Exxon is bigger, and supposed to have more resources for these kinds of spills. Imagine how Embridge would deal with a spill? If they did at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
key2thecup Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Paper towels >>> COREXIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 The idea is to not have an oil spill in the first place. I guess that's asking too much though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armada Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Everyones trying to save costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
We Broke The Cup Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Ships are equipped with them in order to quickly suck up spills - I've seen them literally thrown on water in order to help remove spilled oil. They really are quite absorbent. That said, this is still totally ineffective once the oil has infiltrated into the soil and the main point still stands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobble Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 You'd think renewable energies would get increasing support after so many events like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Everyones trying to save costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Industrious1 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 I live in Alberta (yuck, I know) for work reasons and have spent some time working in the oilfield and from what I've seen from the level of professionalism and expertise here....we should all pay verrrrry close attention to what these companies are doing because they are full of the young, inept and just plain lazy. I worked on one small spill in eastern alberta that was handled so poorly that it made me wonder just how bad things were in other areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedestroyerofworlds Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 What scares me is if the Enbridge pipeline spills into a river or creek. Booms and skimmers are useless in fast moving water. All the oil companies hope that the oil will quickly deposit on the shores, evaporate, or dissolve into the water. I saw this first hand in the Pine River spill in Northern BC. Pembina had crews working for months "cleaning" oil from the shores of the Pine River. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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