Yeah, I heard something on NPR about a huge oil spill near Kuwait that happened during the second Gulf War. The good news is that the marine life (or at least the commercially important stuff) bounced back after a few years. Not sure I'd want to eat any of it, though.<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:21 AM, adee . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adee21@gmail.com">adee21@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<b style="color:rgb(51, 204, 0)">this email from a friend & in response to an email from another friend about an article in yesterday's SFGate. </b><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cindy</b><br>Date: Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:51 AM<br>Subject: Re: [All] Behold the Magnificent Horror<br>To: <br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I can't help but point out that as much oil as is being spilled in the Gulf is spilled *every year* in Nigeria with no real efforts at cleanup or control. Obviously Soupsters know that this is an issue close to my heart. <div>
<br></div><div>This oil spill is the worst in US history, but it's not even close to the worst in the world. And we need to be careful that in our understandable upset about this at home we don't increase the risk to people around the world -- that this doesn't result in increased and dangerous drilling overseas so that Americans just don't see the devastation so close up.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Two good articles:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">"<span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">One report, compiled by WWF UK, the World Conservation Union and representatives from the Nigerian federal government and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, calculated in 2006 that up to 1.5m tons of oil – 50 times the pollution unleashed in the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Alaska – has been spilled in the delta over the past half century. Last year Amnesty calculated that the equivalent of at least 9m barrels of oil was spilled and accused the oil companies of a human rights outrage."</span></blockquote>
</div><div><br></div><div>And a quote from my friend Nnimmo Bassey:</div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">"We see frantic efforts being made to stop the spill in the US," said Nnimo Bassey, Nigerian head of Friends of the Earth International. "But in Nigeria, oil companies largely ignore their spills, cover them up and destroy people's livelihood and environments."</span></div>
<div> <br></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/nigerian-oil-spills-make-exxon-valdez-look-like-drop-in-the-bucket/19483921" target="_blank">http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/nigerian-oil-spills-make-exxon-valdez-look-like-drop-in-the-bucket/19483921</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">" The Associated Press reported that Shell alone spilled nearly 4.5 million gallons of oil into the Niger Delta last year."</span></div>
<div><font face="Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px">And </span></font></div><div><font face="Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px"><span style="font-size:14px">Writing in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/opinion/02margonelli.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0, 65, 115)" target="_blank">New York Times op-ed</a>, New America Foundation scholar Lisa Margonelli noted: "All oil comes from someone's backyard, and when we don't reduce the amount of oil we consume, and refuse to drill at home, we end up getting people to drill for us in Kazakhstan, Angola and Nigeria -- places without America's strong environmental safeguards or the resources to enforce them."</span></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px">Ahoy,</span></font></div><div><font face="Georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px"><br>
</span></font></div><div>Cindy</div><div><br><div><div><div></div><div><div>On Jun 5, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Maura F wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px"><div>
<div></div><div><br>A perspective I admire...<div><br><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fg%2Fa%2F2010%2F06%2F04%2Fnotes060410.DTL" target="_blank">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fg%2Fa%2F2010%2F06%2F04%2Fnotes060410.DTL</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>~Maura</div><br></div></div></div><br><br><br></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
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