6-million-gallon oil spill in NJ sends odor to Del., Md.

[LynneSin]

6-million-gallon oil spill in NJ sends odor to Del., Md.

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20120224/NEWS/120224015/6-million-gallon-oil-spill-NJ-sends-odor-Del-Md-?odyssey=mod|breaking|text|Home

Officials at a New Jersey refinery are busy cleaning up a 6-million-gallon oil spill that is producing odors as far away as Delaware and Maryland, officials say.

The oil spilled from a 12-million-gallon tank at the PBF Energy-owned Paulsboro Refining Co. at Greenwich, N.J., across the Delaware River from Philadelphia Airport.

A company spokesman says the tank sprung a leak around 1:30 p.m. Thursday but it all was contained in a dike on site and did not make it into the Delaware River.

Plant workers are in the process of transferring the spilled oil into another tank on site, a process that will take several days. The workers have been spraying a foam on the oil to try and minimize the odor, the company spokesman said.

Kevin Wilson, a spokesman with the Delaware Emergency Management Agency, said people have complained about the order as far as Cecil and Hartford counties, Md

Ugh it smells horrible here over in Wilmington. I've been nauseous all morning smelling the fumes

[Angry Dragon]

1. The fumes are not good for anyone

[nanabugg]

17. Well is this Pres. Obama's faujlt or Christie's fault?nt

[Angry Dragon]

19. Christie .......... it is his state

[stockholmer]

2. such is the price of living in a petro-dollar wet-nursed empire w/ banksters in utter control

[saras]

3. Ooops. I "accidentally" spilled six million gallons. Sorry.

"the tank sprung a leak"

Yeah, and the cookie jar just jumped onto the floor and broke itself when I wasn't even in the kitchen.

Fer chrissakes. You either let the tank rot, drove a car into it, or blew something up due to lack of maintenance. Petroleum tanks do not simply "spring leaks", any more than automotive gas tanks or drinking glasses.

There's a really old saying that suggests you start to grow up when you quit saying "it broke" and start saying "I broke it."

[LynneSin]

4. We figured it was that or it was Chilli night at the Christie house

[kentauros]

16. OR, it was a bad weld that failed.

Things do "just break" sometimes. The tank could have been stressed from things like over filling or improper venting. The steel could have failed in a spot that wasn't welded but was improperly manufactured (i.e., too thin.)

I don't know if you've ever lived near or worked in a petro-chemical facility, but things do sometimes just fail. Usually, it's due to human error in usage (as in not operating the machinery properly) or in badly manufactured parts and equipment.

[liberal N proud]

5. Is that different from the normal odor eminating from NJ

[LiberalEsto]

9. If you won't go to the NJ Turnpike,

We will bring the NJ Turnpike to you!

[Hutzpa]

6. This is crazy

with the price of oil rising these guys decided to spill six million barrels of oil, how can the
price of oil decrease when you have negligence such as this.

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. Hopefully this incident hits home with some "drill baby drill types"

and a few or more turn on the oil polluters.

Clean Energy Now!

[Justice wanted]

8. There goes east coast fishing now we need something to happen in the pacific and we won't

beable to have seafood.

[cyberpj]

13. Fukushima. Here are a couple of articles to consider:

Fukushima Ocean Radiation Was 50 Million Times Above Normal, But No Threat: Scientists
12/12/2011 @ 1:06AM |7,045 views
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Buesseler and two Japanese colleagues have just published a paper, Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants on Marine Radioactivity, in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

“The release of radioactivity from Fukushima–both as atmospheric fallout and direct discharges to the ocean–represents the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history,” according to a National Science Foundation synopsis of the study.

“Concentrations of cesium-137, a radioactive isotope with a 30-year half-life, at the plants’ discharge points to the ocean peaked at more than 50 million times normal/previous levels. Concentrations 18 miles offshore were higher than those measured in the ocean after the Chernobyl accident 25 years ago.

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“We don’t know how this might affect benthic [bottom dwelling and subsurface] marine life, and with a half-life of 30 years, any cesium-137 accumulating in sediments or groundwater could be a concern for decades to come,” Buesseler said.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2011/12/12/fukushima-ocean-radiation-was-50-million-times-above-normal-but-no-threat-scientists/

Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected to soon wash up on Hawaii beaches, western US coastline
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores much sooner than their original two-years-from-now estimate.

Russian researcher Nikolai Maximenko and his team recently identified household appliances, furniture, plastic material, and even boats floating in Pacific waters during a recent trek home from Honolulu to Russia aboard the STS Pallada. Their discovery represents the first documented case of Fukushima rubble being identified in waters, and heading towards US land.

"We have a rough estimate of five to 20 million tons of debris coming from Japan," said University of Hawaii (UH) computer programming researcher Jan Hafner to KITV 4 News in Honolulu. "[The Russian team] saw some pieces of furniture, some appliances, anything that can float, and they picked up a fishing boat. That's actually our first confirmed report of tsunami debris."

The Fukushima earthquake and tsunami sent a lot more than just small objects out to sea, though. Early reports showed entire buildings, including homes and warehouses, being sent into ocean waters. And while much of this larger debris ended up sinking, masses of it are still floating en route to shorelines in Hawaii and other places.

http://www.naturalnews.com/033984_Fukushima_debris.html

[Auntie Bush]

10. I wonder how this effects wildlife with very sensitive noses?

Probably like us smelling a skunk. Poor animals!

[Earth_First]

11. What's the concern, it says that nothing was spilled into the Delaware...

[truthisfreedom]

12. Good lesson for the East coast, really. Terrible that it happened, but it will remind a lot of us

that oil really is not our friend when it comes to fuel.

[cyberpj]

14. Thats on top of the (at least) two toxic pollution burn-offs at Delaware City site owned by same co:

PBF Energy - since the beginning of this month.

[obamanut2012]

15. Lots of crabbing and oyster harvesting there

No more.

[Fearless]

18. Clearly... drill baby drill!!11!!!1

[HopeHoops]

20. Lynne - you get your water from the Delaware river - how much worse could it smell?