Let's think about that a minute.
Does anyone think it is easy to rip open a hull on such an ocean going monstrosity?
Well, it all depends.
It depends on whether or not you're an iceberg or not.
Oh, absolutely there are icebergs all the time in the Arctic Ocean. That never stops. It isn't the Gulf of Mexico. If you want to know how clueless these petroleum companies are, read their Environmental Impact Statements (EIS).
They don't write a unique EIS for every time they apply for an application for offshore drilling, they photocopy the one before.
Honest. Why else drug the folks at the old Minerals and Mines Management agency?
Oh that reminds me. I have a theory about my exposure to the FBI a few months ago when a page of naked ladies showed up when I as looking for rock classifications. Ready? What goes together to actually sucker a geologist into servitude to the petroleum industry? Blackmail. Why not build a website where geologists go for information and have a pop up of naked ladies that automatically takes one to an FBI sting page?
You know what I am trying to figure out, who set up the page the petroleum industry or the FBI? I think it wasn't disarmed and it was doing what it was suppose to do to compromise federal employees into servitude. What are the chances of a professional geologist having a career with an FBI record of any kind? What are the outcomes to being listed as a potential or actual sex offender? A federal employee would be ruined if that sort of event manifested in their personnel file.
Environmental activists in kayaks protest the Fennica, a vessel that
Royal Dutch Shell PLC plans to use in its Arctic offshore drilling
project, as it underwent repairs on Swan Island, Saturday, July 25,
2015, in Portland, Ore. (Sam Caravana/The Oregonian via AP)
July 26, 2015
By AP
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Environmental activists in Portland are protesting the arrival of the Fennica, a vessel that Royal Dutch Shell PLC plans to use in its Arctic offshore drilling project after it's repaired.
The damaged ship, a 380-foot icebreaker, arrived at a Swan Island dry dock about 3 a.m. Saturday. The icebreaker is a key part of Shell's exploration and spill-response plan off Alaska's northwest coast. It protects Shell's fleet from ice and carries equipment that can stop gushing oil.
The Fennica was damaged earlier this month in the Aleutian Islands when it struck an underwater obstruction, tearing a gash in its hull.
About 75 "kayaktivists" and other protesters in boats were on the water Saturday afternoon, near where the Fennica is docked, holding a peaceful on-the-water rally against arctic offshore drilling, activist Mia Reback said. No arrests have been made.
July 27, 2015
By Alaska Dispatch News
Does anyone think it is easy to rip open a hull on such an ocean going monstrosity?
Well, it all depends.
It depends on whether or not you're an iceberg or not.
Oh, absolutely there are icebergs all the time in the Arctic Ocean. That never stops. It isn't the Gulf of Mexico. If you want to know how clueless these petroleum companies are, read their Environmental Impact Statements (EIS).
They don't write a unique EIS for every time they apply for an application for offshore drilling, they photocopy the one before.
Honest. Why else drug the folks at the old Minerals and Mines Management agency?
Oh that reminds me. I have a theory about my exposure to the FBI a few months ago when a page of naked ladies showed up when I as looking for rock classifications. Ready? What goes together to actually sucker a geologist into servitude to the petroleum industry? Blackmail. Why not build a website where geologists go for information and have a pop up of naked ladies that automatically takes one to an FBI sting page?
You know what I am trying to figure out, who set up the page the petroleum industry or the FBI? I think it wasn't disarmed and it was doing what it was suppose to do to compromise federal employees into servitude. What are the chances of a professional geologist having a career with an FBI record of any kind? What are the outcomes to being listed as a potential or actual sex offender? A federal employee would be ruined if that sort of event manifested in their personnel file.
Environmental activists in kayaks protest the Fennica, a vessel that
Royal Dutch Shell PLC plans to use in its Arctic offshore drilling
project, as it underwent repairs on Swan Island, Saturday, July 25,
2015, in Portland, Ore. (Sam Caravana/The Oregonian via AP) July 26, 2015
By AP
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Environmental activists in Portland are protesting the arrival of the Fennica, a vessel that Royal Dutch Shell PLC plans to use in its Arctic offshore drilling project after it's repaired.
The damaged ship, a 380-foot icebreaker, arrived at a Swan Island dry dock about 3 a.m. Saturday. The icebreaker is a key part of Shell's exploration and spill-response plan off Alaska's northwest coast. It protects Shell's fleet from ice and carries equipment that can stop gushing oil.
The Fennica was damaged earlier this month in the Aleutian Islands when it struck an underwater obstruction, tearing a gash in its hull.
About 75 "kayaktivists" and other protesters in boats were on the water Saturday afternoon, near where the Fennica is docked, holding a peaceful on-the-water rally against arctic offshore drilling, activist Mia Reback said. No arrests have been made.
By Alaska Dispatch News
A strong earthquake (click here) struck near the Aleutian Islands on Sunday night, but
there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami was generated.
The quake, centered 71 miles southwest of the village of Nikolski and 167 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor, had a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, according to the Alaska Earthquake Information Center. It hit at 8:49 p.m. and was followed by a numerous aftershocks, according the U.S. Geological Survey.
By 6 a.m. Monday, the area had seen five aftershocks with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater, and more than a dozen smaller shocks ranging in magnitude from 3.1 to 4.9.
No tsunami was generated, according to the National Tsunami Warning Center.
The area, near the Fox Islands, is just under 1,000 miles west of Anchorage. Nikolski, with a population of fewer than 20 in the 2010 census, is the only community in the vicinity.
The earthquake was centered 53 miles south of Mount Cleveland, a restless volcano that has been rumbling recently. An explosion was reported on July 21.
The Fennica is an icebreaker (click here).
According to Shell it is vital to protect it's drilling operations. Shell should not be operating their drilling platforms without all the ships needed to prevent disasters.
Below is where the volcanic eruption took place. There are volcanoes within these islands. I know that because I know people that work on bird surveys in that area of the world. I find it really odd an icebreaker was hung up on an underwater structure. It doesn't quite make sense to me. Icebreakers have a really specific hull and they don't have deep water displacement. Icebreakers are flat bottomed boats. A three foot section was ripped open. That is an entire section of shell plating.
The boat was forced up on an iceberg. That is the only thing that makes sense to me. It met it's match.
OR.
It met a storm that drove it up on a reef or shoreline.
The Aleutians are practically open water. There is plenty of ocean motion. I am not surprised it got in trouble. What were they doing there? Going around the islands?
While I ponder that, the oil rigs should not be operating without the proper accompaniment of other ships that run interference with icebergs. It is a human safety issue as well as an environmental issue.
This is the Cleveland Volcano (looking at it upside down from the satellite) before it exploded.
I stand corrected, this was the first traces of the eruption. There is a discoloration of one section of the peak where ash was carried.
Here is a composite (click here) Landsat 8 image of Cleveland from the afternoon of 14 June 2015. The shortwave-IR data in color shows elevated temperatures in the summit and is overlain on the grayscale visible wavelength base. Note the light dusting of ash on the north flank as observed by C. Read on his commercial flight back to Anchorage. Snow-free ground near the summit is also evident, but not necessarily unusual.
There were tsunamis but that doesn't mean it was a calm ocean.
The narrative is for the image below.
Wait a minute, this isn't a USA vessel. This is Dutch Shell. That is what it is doing in the open ocean. Oh, these guys are nuts. They aren't going to have much fun. They ought to take all their expensive toys back to the North Atlantic where they know the territory. This is a huge mistake.
Landsat-8 satellite image of Cleveland Volcano, (click here) draped over topography, collected on the night of July 23, 2015 at 08:53 UTC (12:53 am AKDT). The grayscale base image is from thermal infrared (TIR) data, and shows temperatures from cool in white to warm in black. The color overlay is short-wave infrared data, and shows high temperature features that aren't seen in TIR data. A hot summit vent is observed (as a red dot), surrounded by slightly cooler (but still hot) deposits likely from the explosion on 21 July. Note that steaming or clouds obscured a portion of the hot deposits on the south side, observed as an indent in the (likely) circular deposit.
There are some real reasons to get the State Department involved. The Aleutian chain has some of the most pristine Arctic environment the USA has. One oil spill and the Alaskan islands are history.
Below are the major ocean currents of the area. There are fisheries in these waters, including USA, but also Japan and Russia. This is going to be a mess. The State Department (click here for begin to contact) needs to talk to the people at Dutch Shell because they are using USA waters to move their oil rigs in and out and there was no EIS filed. I don't remember one. This is not funny.
Who has resources? Greenpeace, but, NRDC (click here) has to be contacted and made aware of this.
Below are US interests in the region. Kodiak Island is at peril if Dutch Shell blows a well.
Send a note to the White House, too. (click here)
Dutch Royal Shell has no idea what they are doing in the North Pacific. They aren't going to succeed and the entire area is in danger of oil contaminator including fisheries. They are using US waters in their operations and dragging all sorts of ballast and garbage in and out of our waters with their movement.
The company never went through the process as far as I recall of determining the environmental impact of their operations.
The Pacific Ocean is very, very different than the Atlantic. I know the North Atlantic is treacherous on a good day, but, the Pacific has far greater surface area and the open ocean is merciless. They don't know what they got themselves into in this venture. They need to stop.
The quake, centered 71 miles southwest of the village of Nikolski and 167 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor, had a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, according to the Alaska Earthquake Information Center. It hit at 8:49 p.m. and was followed by a numerous aftershocks, according the U.S. Geological Survey.
By 6 a.m. Monday, the area had seen five aftershocks with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater, and more than a dozen smaller shocks ranging in magnitude from 3.1 to 4.9.
No tsunami was generated, according to the National Tsunami Warning Center.The area, near the Fox Islands, is just under 1,000 miles west of Anchorage. Nikolski, with a population of fewer than 20 in the 2010 census, is the only community in the vicinity.
The earthquake was centered 53 miles south of Mount Cleveland, a restless volcano that has been rumbling recently. An explosion was reported on July 21.
According to Shell it is vital to protect it's drilling operations. Shell should not be operating their drilling platforms without all the ships needed to prevent disasters.
Below is where the volcanic eruption took place. There are volcanoes within these islands. I know that because I know people that work on bird surveys in that area of the world. I find it really odd an icebreaker was hung up on an underwater structure. It doesn't quite make sense to me. Icebreakers have a really specific hull and they don't have deep water displacement. Icebreakers are flat bottomed boats. A three foot section was ripped open. That is an entire section of shell plating.
The boat was forced up on an iceberg. That is the only thing that makes sense to me. It met it's match.OR.
It met a storm that drove it up on a reef or shoreline.
The Aleutians are practically open water. There is plenty of ocean motion. I am not surprised it got in trouble. What were they doing there? Going around the islands?
While I ponder that, the oil rigs should not be operating without the proper accompaniment of other ships that run interference with icebergs. It is a human safety issue as well as an environmental issue.
This is the Cleveland Volcano (looking at it upside down from the satellite) before it exploded.
I stand corrected, this was the first traces of the eruption. There is a discoloration of one section of the peak where ash was carried.
Here is a composite (click here) Landsat 8 image of Cleveland from the afternoon of 14 June 2015. The shortwave-IR data in color shows elevated temperatures in the summit and is overlain on the grayscale visible wavelength base. Note the light dusting of ash on the north flank as observed by C. Read on his commercial flight back to Anchorage. Snow-free ground near the summit is also evident, but not necessarily unusual.
The narrative is for the image below.
Wait a minute, this isn't a USA vessel. This is Dutch Shell. That is what it is doing in the open ocean. Oh, these guys are nuts. They aren't going to have much fun. They ought to take all their expensive toys back to the North Atlantic where they know the territory. This is a huge mistake.
Landsat-8 satellite image of Cleveland Volcano, (click here) draped over topography, collected on the night of July 23, 2015 at 08:53 UTC (12:53 am AKDT). The grayscale base image is from thermal infrared (TIR) data, and shows temperatures from cool in white to warm in black. The color overlay is short-wave infrared data, and shows high temperature features that aren't seen in TIR data. A hot summit vent is observed (as a red dot), surrounded by slightly cooler (but still hot) deposits likely from the explosion on 21 July. Note that steaming or clouds obscured a portion of the hot deposits on the south side, observed as an indent in the (likely) circular deposit.
There are some real reasons to get the State Department involved. The Aleutian chain has some of the most pristine Arctic environment the USA has. One oil spill and the Alaskan islands are history.Below are the major ocean currents of the area. There are fisheries in these waters, including USA, but also Japan and Russia. This is going to be a mess. The State Department (click here for begin to contact) needs to talk to the people at Dutch Shell because they are using USA waters to move their oil rigs in and out and there was no EIS filed. I don't remember one. This is not funny.
Who has resources? Greenpeace, but, NRDC (click here) has to be contacted and made aware of this.Below are US interests in the region. Kodiak Island is at peril if Dutch Shell blows a well.
Send a note to the White House, too. (click here)
Dutch Royal Shell has no idea what they are doing in the North Pacific. They aren't going to succeed and the entire area is in danger of oil contaminator including fisheries. They are using US waters in their operations and dragging all sorts of ballast and garbage in and out of our waters with their movement.The company never went through the process as far as I recall of determining the environmental impact of their operations.
The Pacific Ocean is very, very different than the Atlantic. I know the North Atlantic is treacherous on a good day, but, the Pacific has far greater surface area and the open ocean is merciless. They don't know what they got themselves into in this venture. They need to stop.
