Dozens of alligators scrubbed, 3 euthanized after massive diesel spill that killed thousands of anim

[marmar]

Wildlife rehabilitators are decontaminating dozens of alligators, brushing their pointy teeth and scrubbing their scaly hides in the weeks after a pipeline rupture dumped 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a New Orleans area wetland. Three alligators that were caught in deep diesel had to be euthanized, officials said.

Diesel poured into the area outside New Orleans suburb Chalmette on December 27 after a severely corroded pipeline broke, according to federal records.

Seventy-eight alligators have since been rescued, and 33 of them had been cleaned and released by Friday into a national wildlife refuge located in New Orleans and about 10 miles from the spill site in St. Bernard Parish, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said.

Cleaning a six-foot-long alligator on Thursday required eight people: four holders, two scrubbers, one person with a hose for hot-water rinses and one to change the wash water, said Laura Carver, who became the department's oil spill coordinator in February 2010, less than three months before a massive BP oil spill off Louisiana in the Gulf. ..........(more)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/diesel-spill-alligators-scrubbed-euthanized-louisiana/

[Pachamama]

1. Cleaning Alligators sounds like the most dangerous job ever

Right after sharks…

[MagickMuffin]

2. Collins Pipeline KNEW about this and did NOTHING about it until it was too late

to do anything at all. I hope they are sued into bankruptcy but I doubt any real damage to the company will go unpunished.

[Hotler]

3. When this shit happens, the Ceo's should be arrested, all their accounts, asse frozen until the mess

is cleaned up. 3000,000 fucking gallons.

[Bayard]

4. Criminal

Companies will keep skating on fed rules until they are shut down. BP? Richer than ever. Being fined a few million dollars is pocket change for them.

"At the time of the spill the company was awaiting permits for the work and planned to start it later this month, the records show." But they kept right on pumping in the mean time.