![]() But then again, Santa Barbara already had a huge spill in the past and already changed regulations to try to stop it happening again – yet it still happened again. Laws were changed, more regulations were put in, and hopefully it doesn’t happen again. In 2015, there was an oil spill in Santa Barbara, California: 142,000 gallons of crude oil spilled onto Refugio State Beach, closing down the beach for months and affecting beaches all across Southern California (if you’d like to know whether your personal choices matter, this is about as much oil as one four-car family will use in their cars over the course of their lifetimes, give or take). But these stories generally come and go from the headlines – happening often enough that it’s not a huge news story, even if the environmental effects devastate human and animal populations for years after the spill. We hear about these often, because they can create a long-term environmental disaster for communities where they do happen. One of the first legislations that the EPA put-forth was the Clean Water Act (1972), which mandated that all rivers throughout the United States be hygienic enough to safely allow mass amounts of swimmers and fish within the water by 1983.Īnd then there are spills. This act helped establish the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which would be given the duties to manage environmental risks and regulate various sanitary-specific policies. The legislature passed the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA) which was signed into law on January 1, 1970. ![]() Inspired by the 1969 river fire, Congress was determined to resolve the issue of land pollution, not just in Cleveland, but throughout the United States. The famous Cuyahoga River in Rockefeller’s Standard Oil hometown Cleveland has caught fire thirteen times since 1868. In fact, we’ve been igniting waterways with fossil fuels almost since the beginning of fossil fuels. Explosions, leaks, and gas releases and more all happen often enough. There are about 100 offshore oil rig fires every year in the US, according to government statistics. Of course, there are also those accidents you don’t hear about. So, perhaps we should focus instead on the Mexico fire, but multiple spectacular oil & gas-related events within a few days does raise some eyebrows. The Caspian Sea is full of oil platforms. The Caspian Sea explosion so far seems to have had a natural cause, but we think there is still a salient point to be made due to its proximity to oil drilling activity. Azerbaijani mud volcanos tend to be quite active, exploding somewhat regularly. As opposed to traditional volcanos, they do not erupt with magma/lava, but rather methane and other gases. Since the Caspian Sea explosion, SOCAR, the Azerbaijani state oil company, has said that no oil platforms were damaged and blamed the blast on a “mud volcano.” Mud volcanos are a common geological feature in Azerbaijani oil fields. Large explosion and fire seen in the Caspian sea just off the coast of Alat, Azerbaijan in the area of the Umid gas field #Azerbaijan /G8lmUIdaXK- CNW July 4, 2021 The most widely shared video was filmed from a nearby oil platform: ![]() Mexico, under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (also known as “AMLO”), is currently expanding fossil fuel production and limiting clean energy.īut that was just the start, as we had another instance of a quite spectacular fire in the Caspian Sea on Sunday, off the shore of Azerbaijan near the Umid gas field. Carbon that should have stayed in the ground where it has been for millions of years, and now is in the air heating our atmosphere and choking our lungs. Mexico’s oil safety head Angel Carrizales stated that the fire “did not generate any spill.” Whether or not it is the case that there will be no oil slick on the ocean’s surface in the area of the leak, all that burning gas at the very least released carbon and pollution into the atmosphere. It burned for several hours and was eventually stopped through the use of nitrogen. This particular fire has been blamed on a gas leak from a pipeline owned by Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company. Or maybe it’s just the good ol’ evil oil industry doing what they always seem to do: ruin everything they get their greedy destructive hands near. Maybe the meteor that killed the dinosaurs opened a portal to hell from whence the demons have finally started to execute their invasion of the material realm. In a body of water as large as the ocean, one doesn’t normally expect a fire to break out. Needless to say, this doesn’t seem like the sort of thing that ought to happen. Una válvula de una línea submarina habría reventado y provocado el incendioĮsta fuera de control hace 8 horas /KceOTDU1kX- Manuel Lopez San Martin July 2, 2021 □ Incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de MéxicoĪ 400 metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integral de Producción Ku Maloob Zaap)
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