Oil Spill Skimmers

U.S. doesn't have spill response vessels with skimmers because environment regulations don't allow it

Dutch offered skimmers on day 3 to the Obama Administration ... and they were refused

Spill response vessels with skimmers -with the Dutch method seawater is sucked up with the oil by the skimmer. The oil is stored in the tanker and the superfluous water is pumped overboard. But the water does contain some oil residue, and that is too much according to US environmental regulations.

Chairman of the Dutch Spill Response Group for combating oil spills says US regulations are contradictory.
The US approach is nonsense, because otherwise you would have to store the surplus seawater in the tanks as well. “We say no, you have to get as much oil as possible into the storage tanks and as little water as possible. So we pump the water, which contains drops of oil, back overboard.” Pumping water back into the sea with oil residue is not allowed. But you are allowed to combat the spill with chemicals so that the oil dissolves in the seawater. In both cases, the dissolved oil is naturally broken down quite quickly.

It is possible the Americans will opt for the Dutch method as the damage the oil spill could cause to the mud flats and salt marshes along the coast is much worse, warns Wetland expert Hans Revier.

“You have to make sure you clear up the oil at sea. As soon as the oil reaches the mud flats and salt marshes, it is too late. The only thing you can do then is dig it up. But then the solution is worse than the problem.”

Few disasters caused by oil platforms
The leak in the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico could cause the worst ever oil pollution in the history of the United States. Until now oil platforms have seldom caused major environmental disasters. The biggest environmental disaster caused by an oil platform before now was in March 2001 when the P-36 belonging to Brazil's oil company Petrobras leaked. The oil slick measured 400 square kilometres.

By comparison: the Deepwater Horizon spill already covers an area of almost 10,000 square kilometres.

Worst oil disaster until now in US the US tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989, which ran aground in William Sound off Alaska.
In 1978 360 kilometres of the coast of Brittany was polluted with oil from the Liberian tanker Amoco Cadiz, which broke in two.
In 1999 Erika, a tanker registered in Malta, ran into rocks off Brittany and polluted 200 kilometres of the French coastline.
In 1992 the Spanish Galician coast was polluted after the Greek tanker Aegean Sea broke in two and exploded.
Piper Alpha The worst ever oil platform disaster was the explosion on the North sea platform Piper Alpha in July 1988, almost 200 kilometres north of Aberdeen in Scotland. 167 people were killed and the damage amounted to almost a billion euros. 62 workers survived, many of them by diving into the sea.
In the 1980s in particular, many oil platforms capsized across the world as the result of hurricanes, with hundreds of people losing their lives.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-oil-spill-response-team-standby-us-oil-disaster

Federal law has hampered assistance with the Oil Spill. The Jones Act is a maritime law that requires all goods be carried in U.S. waters by U.S.-flagged ships. It prevented Dutch ships with spill-fighting equipment from entering U.S. coastal areas. It was offered almost immediately after the spill was reported. Obama said the buck stops with him. If that were true, he could declare this a case of national security and bypass the Jones Act. Or, did his ego just get in the way and he wanted to huff and puff and tell the US citizens he would have kicked BP's ass in typical @#ss&h3ole bluster Lack of Leadership News http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/7043272.html

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U.S. doesn't have spill response vessels with skimmers because environment regulations don't allow it