The professor's little buddy Wrote:
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> Coal Slaw Wrote:
>
> > OK, tell me how this article would have been
> > written if there was no biased agenda. And if
> you
> > believe the amount of ecological damage and
> human
> > health impacts were overstated, point me to a
> > source supported by aquatic biologists and
> public
> > health professionals to back up your claim.
>
> I'm going off of 20 year old memories here, but I
> seem to recall that back when this happened, all
> of the SF Bay Area news stations and newspapers
> were talking about the ecological damage that had
> been done for several lifetimes. They talked about
> the river never being inhabitable by living things
> for thousands and thousands more years, and that
> we will never see fish return in our lifetime. But
> if we look at any major disaster these days, man
> made or natural, there is always the usual chorus
> of how things are ruined forever, and that always
> turns out to be false. Nature is very powerful and
> has amazing healing effects.

Incorrect. The oil spilled into Prince William Sound from the Exxon Valdez accident continues to kill birds and marine life 20 years later.

During an Amtrak trip across Pennsyvlania last week, we crossed a stream colored orange from acid mine drainage from an abandoned or active coal mine.

While I agree that nature is resilient, different incidents have different impacts. The best way to support your claim is to provide a citation from a wildlife biologist or wildlife ecologist regarding the long-term impacts of the Cantara Loop spill.