No snanas or smoking by the riverside for any of you this week.
The stink outside is 419,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil in the Mississippi River as a result of a tanker ramming into an American Commercial Lines Inc. oil barge near the Crescent City Connection at 1:30AM today. From the T-P:
… State Department of Environmental Quality officials warned the unrefined, tar-like # 6 fuel oil is so thick that it could sink, complicating the cleanup efforts. Therefore, the fuel oil won’t simply evaporate off the surface, which means workers will try to remove it before it starts to sink.
“This is not our first rodeo; we’ve seen spills before,” said Roland Guidry of the Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office.
CNN reports on the spill:
However, the spill is much smaller than the ones that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when the Coast Guard estimated that more than 7 million gallons of oil were dumped into the Mississippi and nearby waterways.
But, Bobby Jindal claims Katrina caused no oil spills. I’m confused.
