Mild oil spill on Lake Huron: On Thursday, a tug boat and a dredge barge sank into Lake Huron. While trying to salvage the remains of the boats, authorities suspect that a pocket of oil escaped. The tug boat was recovered, but the barge is still in the lake. There’s now an uncontained oil sheen on the lake about 500 yards from the site. Due to understandable concerns, the St. Clair County Health Department closed four of the beaches near the site. source
Coast guard investigating alleged oil spill: Stress the “alleged,” as a Coast Guard spokesman has said it’s “too early” to make a definitive judgment. That said, a fisherman reported what he thought to be an oil spill “several miles long” off the Louisiana coast near Venice, and the Coast Guard has deployed to ascertain whether the offending substance is indeed oil, and if so where it may have come from. For obvious reasons, oil turning up off the Louisiana coast reminds us of bad, bad things. We hope like crazy this turns out okay. source
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