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Help Us Fight Big Oil On Bush's Big Day... Delaware Oil Polluters Must Pay

Hello everyone

This is Elizabeth, writing for Citizens Take Charge! & Gasoline Boycott Day - January 20, 2005.

This story (below) is MASSIVE news and there is not enough coverage of it...
We are in BIG trouble and we want our supporters to know that were here to help you get vocal about this atrocity on Jan.20, 2005. Join us. We need you, the world needs us... We can stand together and fight for alternative energy on Jan. 20.

Guys, let me ask you something... What are you prepared to do?
If you look at this picture, what do you see? Are you angry like us?



We feel that we are LONG overdue for a movement, wouldn't you agree?

We've GOT to educate and inform each other... We are all brothers and sisters... It's OUR country, it's OUR world, not the rich & powerful's. We've got to take it back before it gets out of hand. Do you and I connect on this level? Is your passion my passion? EVERY ONE of us should be asking, "What's going on?" This is why I founded my organization... To connect people who care, like you and me, with a common cause - protect and make better, the air, water and land we so desperately need. All we have to do is TRY. If we don't, we'll never know what kind of change is possible...



Let's get vocal about this guys... Our dependence on foreign oil must stop and we must force our government to pursue alternative energy...

We will be targeting Big Oil producers, President Bush and his friends, the Bin Ladens, on Jan. 20 to make it known THEY WILL be held ACCOUNTABLE for their messes that are killing us and our planet. Mother Jones will be discussing the failure of the Bush administration to keep their promises to pursue alternative enrgy

Elizabeth
co-founder, Citizens Take Charge!
& Gasoline Boycott Day (Jan. 20)
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THE REPORT FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES! PLEASE READ! IT'S URGENT!

473,500 GALLONS STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR IN OIL SPILL, COAST GUARD SAYS

By ANTHONY DePALMA

Published: December 1, 2004

Coast Guard officials investigating an oil spill last week in the Delaware River said yesterday that more oil than previously reported has leaked from a damaged tanker, although they still do not know how much entered the river.

Chief Petty Officer Steve J. Carleton said that roughly 473,500 gallons of crude oil was still missing and unaccounted for - far more than the 30,000 gallons that officials had previously estimated to have escaped from the single-hull tanker Athos I as it tried to dock at a Citgo terminal in Paulsboro, N.J., Friday night.



But Officer Carleton said that while the spill was larger than estimated, it was unlikely that all 473,500 gallons had spilled into the river. Rather, he said most of it had probably been pumped from the damaged tank to one or more of the six remaining cargo tanks as the crew tried to keep the vessel balanced after the incident.

Investigators are still trying to figure out what ripped open the bottom of the tanker. Soundings of the river did not find any obstructions that could have caused the accident.

The heavy oil has coated wildlife in the area and created an expanding slick that now covers 45 miles from the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge to the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

Environmentalists said that even a comparatively small spill would have a huge impact on the river, which provides drinking water to millions of people. "It's devastating, whatever final figure they come up with," said Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper.



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[Gloria]

1. These are the first pictures I've seen....they are AWFUL!

I often walked across the bridge between Hopewell Twp over to PA to where Washington launched his crossing across the Delaware that Christmas.

I don't think they will be doing the reenactment this year, do you?? I hope there is a huge demonstration....this spill is right in the middle of one of our most famous and lovely historic areas....What a miserable shame this is!!

[noclonyofthechimp]

3. agree

[noclonyofthechimp]

2. You saw about 2 minutes of coverage on this over the MSM that

has failed us unbelievably! Kick this!!!!!!!!!!:kick:

[ExclamationPoint]

4. NOMINATE FOR HOMEPAGE

Everyone must see this. It is thoroughly depressing and very highly important.

[gasolineboycottday]

20. Thank you for your reply, concern and recommendation

Thank you for your reply, concern and recommendation. This story and our effort begs for America's attention immediately. We can weep about this news for only so long, but then we must then empower ourselves to make change. We must fuse our anger, frustration, and overall emotion into positive energy in order to make a profound impact and statement come Jan. 20, 2005...

Bethann
co-founder, Citizens Take Charge!
& Gasoline Boycott Day
http://www.gasolineboycottday.org

[Ekirh]

5. ...................

Those are just some awful pictures.... First I've seen of this :( :( :(

[gasolineboycottday]

6. Hi guys, when I was on with Malloy, he wasn't even aware!

Hi guys, when I was on with Mike Malloy the other day, he wasn't even aware! He was shocked and he felt terrible... So don't feel bad if Bush TV deprived you of the story and the pictures... Bush TV doesn't want you to know the messy details...

[infusionman]

7. It won't work

Gasoline boycott day? There are too many people dependant on gas to boycott it. I am one of them. I drive about 60 miles a day in my work.(Home Health Nurse) You could never get enough support to make a difference.

[gasolineboycottday]

14. Embrace these inspirational words...

Inspirational words...

Poster ‘smartcookieyorkvillenyc’ had an appropriate quote in her signature tag on one of my posts from the other day:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

Excellent! :)

[gasolineboycottday]

15. Embrace these inspirational words...

Inspirational words...

Poster ‘smartcookieyorkvillenyc’ had an appropriate quote in her signature tag on one of my posts from the other day:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

Excellent! :)

[infusionman]

8. It won't work

Gasoline boycott day? There are too many people dependant on gas to boycott it. I am one of them. I drive about 60 miles a day in my work.(Home Health Nurse) You could never get enough support to make a difference.

[infusionman]

9. It won't work

Gasoline boycott day? There are too many people dependant on
gas to boycott it. I am one of them. I drive about 60 miles a
day in my work.(Home Health Nurse) You could never get enough
support to make a difference.

[infusionman]

11. Oooops!

[zeemike]

12. Oops

Looks like you didn't see the edit button.

But welcome to DU

[billie_]

13. I heard you on Mike Malloy and meant to go to the site...

this is horrible and seeing the pix really makes the reality hit home :(

i am in ...yes, we need to do something...TY

billie

[zeemike]

10. I did not look long

I hate seeing this suffering caused buy noting but greed for profit.

But we do not need to look for answers to how to change, there are many different solutions to energy problems and most of them are good and workable.
What we lack is the willingness to implement them, because the big oil companies have a money making machine that they want to keep running at all cost.
Without bold leadership that has some media access we are just blowing in the wind. and without some kind of resources to implement change we are doomed to pollute ourselves to death.

sorry to sound so hopeless but that just is the way it is.

[gasolineboycottday]

16. Embrace these inspirational words...

Inspirational words...

Poster ‘smartcookieyorkvillenyc’ had an appropriate quote in her signature tag on one of my posts from the other day:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

Excellent! :)

[InvisibleBallots]

17. this is nothing but Eco-Terrorism against us and our country

Ecological terrorism using chemical weapons.

Please everyone remember that the people who did this are the same people that own and advertize on the Corporate Media, so don't expect them to cover it or do anything but try to minimize it, that's their job.

[gasolineboycottday]

18. Latest news on the oil spill - Delaware river oil oozes, mess gets murkier

Delaware River Oil Oozes, Mess Gets Murkier

Sat Dec 4, 7:55 AM ET

Top Stories - Los Angeles Times

By David Zucchino Times Staff Writer

NEWARK, Del. — Like a mutant blob in a bad horror movie, an oil slick first thought to be relatively small has grown bigger and more menacing over the past week, oozing its way down both banks of the Delaware River.

When the Greek tanker Athos I began leaking heavy Venezuelan crude into the river the night of Nov. 26, it appeared to be a manageable spill confined to a riverside terminal — just 30,000 gallons, according to estimates.

But authorities now warn that it could be as much as 473,500 gallons, a gooey mess that has spread to 70 miles of shoreline across three states.

Investigators are trying to determine whether a gash and a puncture in the ship's hull were caused by an 11-ton, 13-foot-wide propeller that fell off a dredge owned by the Army Corps of Engineers in April and was left on the river bottom.

The muck has killed birds, fish and turtles. It has shut down a nuclear plant and threatened a dozen freshwater streams and tributaries. It has slid past a pristine nature reserve and spread to within three miles of drinking water intakes for Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.

And it was still oozing Friday, leaving a 4-foot-high black smear along the stone seawall that keeps the Delaware from flooding Ft. Mifflin, a historic Revolutionary War battlement. Stiff sea winds spread a sharp chemical odor across the freshwater tidal marshes that straddle Interstate 95.

The spill is not exactly the Exxon Valdez, which dumped nearly 11 million gallons in Alaska in 1989, but it could be the worst on the Delaware, surpassing the 300,000 gallons spilled by a tanker in 1989.

And it has surprised and shaken a region where most people are only vaguely aware of the massive refineries that dot the uninhabited, low marshlands just south of Philadelphia.

Tankers deliver a million barrels of crude each day to the refineries that produce 70% of the gasoline sold in the Northeast, according to the local maritime exchange.

More than a thousand workers were along the river Friday, putting down 94,000 feet of boom, absorbent floating barriers used to contain the slick. Despite all efforts, the environmental and economic damages probably will be in the millions, authorities said. The Delaware Bay is home to thousands of migratory shorebirds and the world's largest population of horseshoe crabs.

"No matter how good the cleanup is, the damage is irreparable. This is a real catastrophe," said Maya van Rossum, a lawyer and environmentalist who calls herself the "Delaware Riverkeeper." For the last week, Van Rossum has stomped along creek beds and marshlands, taking photographs and documenting the effects of the spill.

The oil has spread from Pennsylvania and New Jersey past here in Newark, where on Friday staffers and volunteers at Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research Inc. were using diluted dishwashing liquid to dissolve oil from the feathers of ducks, Canada geese and seagulls — and from the shell of a single painted turtle. A pair of rare bald eagles smeared with oil had been spotted but not recovered by rescuers, van Rossum said.

"The oil burns their skin and eyes and destroys their feather structure — it's nasty stuff," Chris Motoyoshi, the rescue center's executive director, said as workers struggled to get a feeding solution down the throat of an uncooperative gull.

Shipping restrictions have been imposed on the Philadelphia port, the East Coast's leading destination for cocoa beans from Ivory Coast and for South American fruit — particularly grapes from Chile and bananas from Costa Rica. Ships were waiting Friday to be washed clean of oil before heading out to sea, with the delays costing tens of thousands of dollars a day.

Pleasure boats, some of them coated with oil, have been banned from the river. Hunting and fishing have been restricted along the Delaware's shoreline. Along the riverbank Friday, workers stacked plastic bags filled with oil-smeared junk and debris skimmed from the river.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has placed oil snares on the river, said Friday that the spill ranges from "very light sheening to heavy oiling" along the 70-mile slick.

The 750-foot Athos I was carrying 14 million gallons of oil when it began leaking at an oil company dock. Authorities first said only 30,000 gallons had seeped out, but four days later the U.S. Coast Guard (news - web sites) announced that 473,500 gallons were missing from the tanker. Divers found a 6-foot gash and a 2-foot puncture in the hull.

Officials now are trying to determine how much of the oil was trapped inside the ship's ballast and how much has leaked into the river.

The Athos I is a single-hulled tanker. Federal laws passed after the Exxon Valdez spill required single-hulled ships in the U.S. to be gradually replaced with double-hulled by 2015.

The tanker's operator, Tsakos Shipping and Trading of Athens, has said insurance would cover cleanup costs. Federal law limits owners' liability based on a ship's tonnage. In the case of the Athos I, the liability would be about $45 million.

After touring the riverbank this week, U.S. Sens. Jon Corzine and Frank R. Lautenberg, both New Jersey Democrats, said they would introduce a bill next week to abolish such liability caps for single-hulled ships.

The most obvious damage from the Delaware spill is environmental. At the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge near Philadelphia International Airport, the closing of the mouth of Darby Creek within hours of the spill prevented oil from reaching the low-lying refuge.

Even so, birds that had been soaked with oil in the river were still flying and landing in the refuge Friday. Workers separated birds that could be saved from those that were dying, sending the survivors south to the Tri-State Bird Rescue facility.

There, workers had set up an assembly line of five metal 10-gallon tubs filled with 103-degree water and diluted dish soap. Birds were moved from tub to tub after an initial examination by a veterinarian.

In each tub, workers used sponges, cotton swabs and squirt bottles to wash off the oil. The birds were given fluids to prevent dehydration and, in some cases, Pepto-Bismol to relieve gastro-intestinal distress caused by ingesting or breathing oil.

Oil destroys birds' delicate feather structure and waterproofing, the Tri-State Bird Rescue's Motoyoshi said. Some birds have died of hypothermia, she said, and others have died after sinking and drowning under the weight of the oil.

Since the spill, 86 birds have been brought to the center, including Canada geese, mallards, cormorants, herons, coots and seagulls. Of those, Motoyoshi said, 69 are still alive. The center is continuing to receive about 20 oil-coated birds a day.

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[gasolineboycottday]

22. OK, sorry I didn't know that

OK, sorry I didn't know that...

[gasolineboycottday]

19. About our organization and our effort...

On January 20, 2005 (Inauguration Day), our grassroots, non-profit organization will call into action a national boycott of gasoline in the United States of America. We are urging millions of citizens to participate in our effort to demand and promote alternative energy sources. Citizens of this great country are frustrated, not only by the high cost of gasoline, but also by the failure of our representatives in Congress who speak of pursuing alternative energy sources, but never act on their promises.

For activists who have been following and supporting us: Please note our boycott WILL BE extended. The boycott will begin on Jan. 20 and continue for 2 days. The overwhelming amount of support and response we've garnered since late September has helped us make our boycott more effective and more inclusive of all drivers. Be sure to check for updates at our Web site periodically. Thanks again for your support. Stay active, never give up, never stop fighting for truth, never stop fighting for what you believe in and hold dearly to your heart... And NEVER forget what's been done, for this permanent decimation of our planet CANNOT be undone. Change is in order and WE WILL make it happen. Peace.

Bethann
co-founder, Citizens Take Charge!
& Gasoline Boycott Day
http://www.gasolineboycottday.org

[IllegalCombatant]

23. thanks, i've been following this story

added to my 'blog' GFP

[gasolineboycottday]

24. OIL SPILL ADVISORIES JUST OUT FROM PHILLY! IF YOU ARE AFFECTED, HERE'S #S

GUYS HERE'S THE ADVISORIES AND PHONE HOTLINE NUMBERS FOR HELP IF YOU LIVE IN THE AFFECTED AREAS OF THE OIL SPILL, PLEASE READ:

Spill at a Glance

Miles of shore affected: 81.

Gallons spilled: Unknown, but could be as many as 473,500.

Gallons of oil-water mixture recovered:10,918.

Gallons of oil unloaded from damaged tanker's cargo of 14 million gallons: 2.52 million.

Pounds of cleanup material and oil disposed of: 6,720.

Feet of spill-control boom used: 109,050.

Cause of tears in tanker: Unknown.

Birds rescued:103.

Birds cleaned: 84.

Birds that died after capture or arrived dead: 87.

Cleanup workers: More than 1,400.

To file a spill-related claim,call 866-401-0353.

To report injured wildlife,call 215-365-1558.

To report an oiled area,call 267-765-3446.

From: Elizabeth
http://www.gasolineboycottday.org

[gasolineboycottday]

25. LATEST UPDATE ON OIL SPILL (Tue, Dec. 07, 2004)

Posted on Tue, Dec. 07, 2004

Murky Delaware is no help in investigation of oil spill

Coast Guard divers are trying to find what might have pierced the Athos I. Cleanup of the river and shore continued.

By Wendy Ruderman and Tom Avril

Inquirer Staff Writers

The Coast Guard investigation into the Athos I oil spill is zeroing in on at least two suspicious objects at the bottom of the Delaware River near where the tanker was supposed to dock. Divers went in for closer looks Sunday and yesterday but had yet to identify the objects because of limited visibility in the murky water, said Chief Petty Officer Steve Carleton, a Coast Guard spokesman.

"They sent the divers down to get a visual idea of what they are dealing with," he said yesterday. "I have not heard anything back to definitively tell us what it is."

Federal prosecutors in the meantime are investigating the Nov. 26 spill, one of the worst in the river's history. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Calgagni, who specializes in environmental cases, said he was involved but declined further comment yesterday.

The spill has sullied about 80 miles of shoreline in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, killing untold numbers of waterfowl and triggering a multimillion-dollar cleanup. Yesterday, little oil was visible on the burlap-brown river during a two-hour boat ride arranged by the Coast Guard for reporters, although blackish residue could be seen along the banks for many miles.

Coast Guard investigators believe the steel bottom of the Athos I struck a hidden hazard a few hundred yards off a Citgo Petroleum Corp. dock in West Deptford. As much as 473,500 gallons of oil could have leaked from the ship, but officials say they do not believe the final figure will be that high...

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. Oh, my beautiful planet!

:cry:

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Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
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[Zorra]

27. Those must be pictures from the Bu$h-Cheney National Wildlife Refuge.

I use less than 10 gallons of gas per month on average.

Solar for electricity.

I'll try to do better.

[gasolineboycottday]

28. Spill update: Pipe caused tanker gash? This tanker had a double-hull !!!

Officials say Delaware River spill caused by discarded pipe

Associated Press Wire 37 mins. ago

PHILADELPHIA Investigators say an oil spill in the Delaware River was caused by another type of pollution -- a discarded pipe lying on the river bottom.
Officials say sonar tests pinpointed the 15-foot U-shaped pipe. Later, traces of paint on the pipe were traced to an oil tanker.

The Greek ship dumped nearly a half (m) million gallons of crude oil into the river last month in a spill that stretched across 70 miles.

The tanker had been trying to dock when the pipe tore a six-foot hole in its hull.

Officials think the cleanup will cost millions of dollars.

[gasolineboycottday]

29. Spill update: Pipe caused tanker gash? This tanker had double hull! B.S.!!

Pipe caused tanker gash? This tanker had a double hull! Bulls**t!

This is a cover up for the Army Corps of Engineers! Listen:

"Investigators are trying to determine whether a gash and a puncture in the ship's hull were caused by an 11-ton, 13-foot-wide propeller that fell off a dredge owned by the Army Corps of Engineers in April and was left on the river bottom."

[gasolineboycottday]

30. This is a cover up for the Army Corps of Engineers! Listen...

Pipe caused tanker gash? This tanker had a double hull! Bulls**t!

This is a cover up for the Army Corps of Engineers! Listen:

"Investigators are trying to determine whether a gash and a puncture in the ship's hull were caused by an 11-ton, 13-foot-wide propeller that fell off a dredge owned by the Army Corps of Engineers in April and was left on the river bottom."