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Council Roc Doc
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The Gulf of Mexico
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4/30/2010 10:15:52 AM
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Archie, this from Geo-Marine, an international peer-reviewed journal published in Germany, from a 2002 accepted paper:
Abstract Recent global estimates of crude-oil seepage rates suggest that about 47% of crude oil currently entering the marine environment is from natural seeps, whereas 53% results from leaks and spills during the extraction, transportation, refining, storage, and utilization of petroleum. The amount of natural crude-oil seepage is currently estimated to be 600,000 metric tons per year, with a range of uncertainty of 200,000 to 2,000,000 metric tons per year. Thus, natural oil seeps may be the single most important source of oil that enters the ocean, exceeding each of the various sources of crude oil that enters the ocean through its exploitation by humankind.
Now I'm not saying I don't have extreme sympathy for all those whom this spill will affect, (most for the families of those that perished) but I believe this planet, as suggested by this scientific article, has the innate means to cleanse itself. Maybe not as quickly as some would want, but how can the left gripe about harvesting oil from the seabed in amounts that are less than naturally occurring leaks?
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