{"id":35564,"date":"2013-04-07T15:55:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T19:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=35564"},"modified":"2013-04-07T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T19:55:49","slug":"one-oil-spill-is-too-much-one-two-three-oil-spills-this-week-shell-keeps-up-with-exxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/one-oil-spill-is-too-much-one-two-three-oil-spills-this-week-shell-keeps-up-with-exxon\/","title":{"rendered":"One Oil Spill Is Too Much. One, Two, Three Oil Spills This Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One oil spill is too much. Three oil spills happened in the last short week, bringing horror to humans and wildlife alike. Dirty oil,\u00a0at the root of this, has no moral compass. It is a style of bullying at the worst level. If the earth did not have the resources for renewable energy that its does, this would still be wrong.<\/p>\n

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From RT<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cThousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week. Shell Pipeline, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc shut down their West Columbia, Texas, pipeline <\/a>last Friday after electronic calculations conducted by the US National Response Center showed that upwards of 700 barrels had been lost, amounting to almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil.\u201d<\/p>\n

There seems to be a pattern of early oversight, initial denial, and initial misinformation. Then there is a classic back-stepping. Of all the things to find patterns with, this is a terribly sad pattern of dirty oil <\/a>and untold harm to Earth.<\/p>\n

RT reports: \u201cThursday the spill was reported by the US Coast Guard to the Dow Jones, only three days before, a Shell spokesperson said that inspectors found ‘no evidence’ of an oil leak.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c50 barrels of oil spilled from a pipe near Houston, Texas and entered a waterway that connects to the Gulf of Mexico.” The reassurances come, \u201cCoast Guard Petty Officer Steven Lehman said that Shell had dispatched clean-up crews that were working hard to correct any damage to Vince Bayou, a small waterway that runs for less than 20 miles from the Houston area into a shipping channel that opens into the Gulf.\u201d<\/p>\n

“That’s a very early estimate–things can change,” Officer Lehman told Dow Jones.<\/p>\n