Comments on: Oil Spill Into Escambia River Near Century; Cleanup Underway

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:37:56 +0000

@Hypocrite
Sure if you are going to spend 100k to clean it up when you do! Ohh, you were talking about just pouring it in and leaving it because your a HYPOCRITE right!

@Randy
If you read the story, I said that boating on the river annually puts out more spills than this (not one boat, but the combination throughout the year).

To get it straight, I am not supporting the spill and I am not against the environment. Thing is, that is the industry we all depend on and these minor things happen. Things like this happen to you as well, ever been the person at fault in a fender bender, etc? I am saying that they jumped on the cleanup without being forced to do so and are attempting to make their mechanical malfunction right!

By: me again

me again — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 01:54:47 +0000

that is a good point #JUSTME….330am is too early to rise

By: RB

RB — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:31:27 +0000

126 gallons escaped from the facility into the river and everyone wants to hang the company. Have you considered the amount of gas oil mix that’s placed into that same river by boaters. How about all the run off from the cars you drive around with oil and transmission leaks. The spills you commit at the gas station where you over fill the cars gas tank. You ever wonder where that goes when it rains. It all ends up in the ditches that leads to the creeks and rivers. If you calculate all that contamination generated by that, it would be thousands of times the amount that has entered from the Quantum plant. So just think about your contribution to pollution in the rivers next time you blast a oil company.

Don’t forget about trash, that’s pollution too. Seems the river is full of personal trash, nobody ever raises hell about that. Do they ?

By: Just me!

Just me! — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:52:11 +0000

@sue-“If you were to spill a gallon of milk on your kitchen floor at 330am do you start cleaning it up right then or wait an hour an half for someone else to clean up your mess???”
I’d leave it, and get back in the bed, my wife would clean it up when she gets up…
That’s just me!!

By: HYPOCRITE

HYPOCRITE — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 03:24:35 +0000

@ common sense

Makes sense to me. So we should all dump our oil in the river.

It doesn’t hurt anything being in there. RIGHT?????

By: River rat

River rat — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 03:09:16 +0000

We should be ashamed of ourselves, with the millions of gallons of Alabama paper-mill effluent, the City of Century’s sewage outfall, and now preventable discharges of oil from the Jay refinery.
This is our river, a great god given natural resource. We are lucky to have such a place to fish and enjoy. We need to stop fussing and just do what is right.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:03:35 +0000

You guys might want to trade those boats in if your losing that much oil out of them?

By: Harvey

Harvey — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:11:43 +0000

Excuse my dang iPhone auto spelling ;;;Park your cars and walk. If you don’t like the oil fields then walk, call Obama and get on your free stuff because there is 10s of thousands that depend on the job,, everything from surveyors to, yea even a cell phone making. These people responded and cleaned up. No harm left to cry over,, you pullute the waters a lot more than this did ,,Yea I work offshore I see the rules and regulations they have to go by , but sometimes a accident does happen.

By: just an opinion

just an opinion — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:04:46 +0000

Well said #commonsense…..I couldn’t agree more ;o)

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:34:19 +0000

You guys are on here acting like this was a BP like spill. This has caused a slight sheen in which no one would have even noticed if the company hadnt done the right thing and began cleanup efforts. Boats going up and down the river cause more polution annually than this spill. Runoff from YOUR OWN vehicles cause more polution. Get a clue you hypocritical morons. Most oil companies are more environmentally friendly than any of you posting on here. Have you every over filled your gas tank and had some run out on the ground, yes, and you drove off didnt you. Oil companies will spend a thousand dollars to clean something like that up to keep you hypocrits happy!