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Oil, Chemical Spills from Hurricane Harvey Adding Up

Booms and Curtains, Media, News
Marine Link article image September 18, 2017

This article from Marine Link highlights some of the issues caused by Hurricane Harvey.

The following is an excerpt from the article….

More than 22,000 barrels of oil, refined fuels and chemicals spilled at sites across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, along with millions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of tons of other toxic substances, a Reuters review of company reports to the U.S. Coast Guard shows.

The spills, clustered around the heart of the U.S. oil industry, together rank among the worst environmental mishaps in the country in years, but fall far short of the roughly 190,000 barrels spilled in Louisiana in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina – the last major storm to take dead aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Harvey slammed ashore in Texas on Aug. 26, unleashing record flooding around Houston that destroyed countless homes, displaced around a million people and killed scores. Read the whole article on Marine Link’s website.

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