Comments on: Major oil spill in Australia finally brought to an end http://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2009/11/04/major-oil-spill-in-australia-finally-brought-to-an-end/ Environmental reporter Christopher Dunagan discusses the challenges of protecting Puget Sound and all things water-related. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:06:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Fred Felleman http://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2009/11/04/major-oil-spill-in-australia-finally-brought-to-an-end/comment-page-1/#comment-16571 Fred Felleman Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:02:57 +0000 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/?p=3867#comment-16571 Finally they get their act together! So much for the mantra often repeated about modern environmentally sensitive development practices.... Another example why we fought so hard in the 1980's to ban oil rigs off our coast. It will be interesting to see how thorough a job is done of evaluating the effectiveness and impacts of the heavy dispersant use. Closer to home the recent oil spill in San Francisco Bay during a common bunkering operation spread farther than need be due to the fact that CA does not require pre-booming of transfer operations as Ecology now requires after legislation introduced subsequent to the Point Well's spill. Jay Inslee has attachment a provision to the Coast Guard reauthorization HR 3619 that would address such issues but it is not included the Senate version. Unfortunately the public is only made aware of such overdue issues when there's oil in the water leading regulators to act. Finally they get their act together! So much for the mantra often repeated about modern environmentally sensitive development practices…. Another example why we fought so hard in the 1980’s to ban oil rigs off our coast. It will be interesting to see how thorough a job is done of evaluating the effectiveness and impacts of the heavy dispersant use.

Closer to home the recent oil spill in San Francisco Bay during a common bunkering operation spread farther than need be due to the fact that CA does not require pre-booming of transfer operations as Ecology now requires after legislation introduced subsequent to the Point Well’s spill.

Jay Inslee has attachment a provision to the Coast Guard reauthorization HR 3619 that would address such issues but it is not included the Senate version.

Unfortunately the public is only made aware of such overdue issues when there’s oil in the water leading regulators to act.

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