http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/19/fact-check-mary-landrieus-montara-oil-spill-figure/ When old landmarks crumble, established roads no longer lead the way. New paths open to those with an irregular eye. Our news is unfit for print. Sat, 26 May 2012 21:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/19/fact-check-mary-landrieus-montara-oil-spill-figure/comment-page-1/#comment-577338 John Amos Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:01:40 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=15688#comment-577338 Thanks for pointing this out. What's most interesting to me is that anyone would consider an 800,000 gallon oil spill to be inconsequential. The US Coast Guard categorizes any spill larger than 100,000 gallons as a "major" spill (www.uscg.mil/hq/nsfweb/docs/FOSCGuidev07.pdf). And the disastrous Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 involved an estimated 200,000 gallons of oil (http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jeff/sb_69oilspill/69oilspill_articles2.html). Thanks for pointing this out. What’s most interesting to me is that anyone would consider an 800,000 gallon oil spill to be inconsequential. The US Coast Guard categorizes any spill larger than 100,000 gallons as a “major” spill (www.uscg.mil/hq/nsfweb/docs/FOSCGuidev07.pdf). And the disastrous Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 involved an estimated 200,000 gallons of oil (http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jeff/sb_69oilspill/69oilspill_articles2.html).

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