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The devastating oil spill in the San Francisco Bay this past week, makes you realize how fragile our environment is. Human error to blame.

Some 58,000 gallons of oil spilled out of that tanker that hit the base of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. But so far in almost a week, only 20,000 have been recovered, it is a tedious and laborious task performed by some 900 people including some 400 volunteers, and 60 boats.A task that will never be totally completed . Some has sunk to the bottom of the Bay and dissipated into the ocean, will not be recovered and will continue to harm the wildlife and the environment long after everyone is gone from the crime scene.
And it is a crime scene, if you have ever been to San Francisco and peered out from the Golden Gate Bridge to look at the Bay, you would think you died and gone to heaven. To look at the recent pictures of the Bay now with all that oil drifting about, you know a crime has been committed; a crime to the environment. The spill is reported now to have spread from inside the Bay around the city of Berkeley to outside the Bay and up the Pacific Shore to Point Reyes, and out to the Farallon Islands.

Countless Beaches have been closed and the repercussions to the wild life is immeasurable. So far 900 oil covered birds have been recovered, 400 of them dead. Not to mention the sea life that has been affected and will continue to be affected as more oil sinks to the bottom. This is bad news for the fish and the fishermen, the crabbers in the area have asked Governor Schwarzenegger to extend the Crabbing season, which was supposed to start on Nov 15. The oil spill would affect their equipment and their catch and would not be safe to eat. It will take years for the Bay to get back to normal.

As if the San Francisco Bay spill was not enough on Sunday, a Russian Tanker got torn apart by a heavy storm, killing three sailors and spilling 1.3 million gallons of oil into the Black Sea. Thousands of oil covered birds have been found and the loss of sea life is impossible to count.

With all the technology and know how that we have, it makes you wonder why more is not done to prevent these ecological disasters. Human error again.

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November 13th, 2007 at 12:45 pm by bibi in Environment, Green News, Public Awareness

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