Latest Update from a New Orleans outlet.
Hopefully I’m being wooshed, but in case it is an honest question, the answer is Yes. Examples include:
Dec. 7, 2004 - tanker breaks in half and spills 337,000 gallons of oil in Alaska.
Aug - Sept 2005 - Hurricane Katrine spills estimated 7 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.
June 19, 2006 - 71,000 barrells released from a Citgo refinery in Louisianna.
July 25, 2008 - 419,000 gallons released near New Orleans.
You’re being whooshed. Post 19 should make things a bit clearer.
Methinks you have been whooshed!
ETA: Didn’t see that he already said that.
The Houston Chronicle has pretty good coverage of petrochemical news. Here’s the section devoted to the Deepwater Horizon disaster–with bulletins on the latest, very different explosion. (It’s a production platform in relatively shallow water.) Comments to older stories shown on the page always included a few warnings that Hussein Obama was behind the disaster. Because he wants to destroy the economy, you know! And wants to force those oil companies to follow regulations!
Here’s information on various mishaps that have occurred offshore. Mostly not in our waters.
320 feet is shallow water. Things sure have changed .
While I’m sure that back in your day 320 feet was considered really deep water (and dinosaurs roamed the earth), now it’s less than an order of magnitude below where they drill these days (Deep Horizons was, IIRC, below 5000 feet).
-XT