Does Oil Spill Damage Last Forever?
How Much Do Companies Pay For Oil Spills?: http://dne.ws/1GERsFp Oil spills seem to becoming more and more common. How long does it take to recover? Is it possible to ever fully recover? ...
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Have you ever tried to remove a liquid from another liquid? Not so easy. There's a reason they say oil and water don't mix, but neither does oil and pretty much anything else. Oil is a mainstay for modern post-industrial revolution society. We run our engines, and heat and power our homes with it; and even with all the precautions and cost involved, sometimes we accidentally spill it everywhere. Most recently in Refugio State Beach on the central coast of California on May 19th, but also in Yellowstone National Park, in Montana, in the Black Sea, Israel, Louisiana, Indiana, Curaçao and North Dakota THRICE; and that's just in the last year and a half! Cleaning up the spill is HEAVILY studied, but what about later? What happens 5, 10, 50 years after...
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Have you ever tried to remove a liquid from another liquid? Not so easy. There's a reason they say oil and water don't mix, but neither does oil and pretty much anything else. Oil is a mainstay for modern post-industrial revolution society. We run our engines, and heat and power our homes with it; and even with all the precautions and cost involved, sometimes we accidentally spill it everywhere. Most recently in Refugio State Beach on the central coast of California on May 19th, but also in Yellowstone National Park, in Montana, in the Black Sea, Israel, Louisiana, Indiana, Curaçao and North Dakota THRICE; and that's just in the last year and a half! Cleaning up the spill is HEAVILY studied, but what about later? What happens 5, 10, 50 years after...
