They are trucking the oil leak waste inland to landfills

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/96533424.html

Ascension landfill gets oil leak waste‎

Thursday Edition
June 17, 2010

By DAVID J. MITCHELL

Advocate River parishes bureau

The BFI-Colonial Landfill near Sorrento is one of three landfills in Louisiana receiving cleanup waste from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak and has taken in the most waste so far, state environmental and company officials said Wednesday.

The deep-water rig drilling a BP well exploded off the coast of Louisiana on April 20, later sank and has spewed oil across the Gulf of Mexico despite efforts to plug or divert the flow, creating the largest oil disaster in U.S. history.

The 287-acre Colonial landfill, which is off La. 70 near the Panama Canal bridge, has been permitted, designed and built as an industrial and municipal solid waste landfill and has received similar types of non-hazardous oilfield wastes in the past, those officials said.

“This is definitely within our normal scope of business, and we’re both permitted and equipped to manage these materials,” said Susan David, spokeswoman for the Phoenix-based Republic Services Inc., parent of BFI.

Among the items being receiving are used absorbent and containment booms, protective suits and gloves and contaminated soil, which usually consists of oil and sand scooped from fouled shorelines, environmental officials said

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Further contamination

Fuck You, BP.

And who the hell is allowing them access to the landfills to do this???? :mad:

[sandnsea]

2. "we’re both permitted and equipped to manage these materials"

The 287-acre Colonial landfill, which is off La. 70 near the Panama Canal bridge, has been permitted, designed and built as an industrial and municipal solid waste landfill and has received similar types of non-hazardous oilfield wastes in the past, those officials said.

“This is definitely within our normal scope of business, and we’re both permitted and equipped to manage these materials,” said Susan David, spokeswoman for the Phoenix-based Republic Services Inc., parent of BFI.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Would the dispersant also be on these things?

[sandnsea]

8. If you don't like the solution, change it

The place to change it appears to be with the EPA or some other agency that has authorized and built these disposal areas.

Another rant about the awful BP doesn't do a fucking thing.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. What rant? I just asked a question and you yelled at me. :^(

[sandnsea]

12. I'm not yelling at you

I just get so tired of these posts with these flippant comments that are either factually wrong or attack the wrong entity, and it just goes on and on and never ends.

This is actually a serious issue. I wondered what they did with the boom filling a few weeks ago. But to say damn BP or damn Coast Guard or damn Obama... it misses the target and does no good. Certainly damn Obama needs to know this is not going to be an acceptable solution in this case, at least I don't see how it can be, but my god let's organize sensibly for a change and really get to the core of the problem.

Wouldn't it be remarkable if Rachel identified the exact agency that approves these facilities, has a name and a Congressman lined up, and gets a new solution in, oh, say 24 hours. Now that's some change I can believe in.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. I agree that it's a serious issue, which is why I wanted to know if these surface use and shore

items would have been exposed to the dispersant used in the deeper waters. I know they certainly didn't start out in the same locations, but would the ocean current have stirred things up enough that there would be some dispersant on them, and therefore need any sort of extra care in their disposal?

Maybe that's another questions Rachel can address? :)

[sandnsea]

15. The dispersants are EPA approved

They're usually used on top of the water, in areas without a lot of oil or when the weather makes the booms ineffective. Since dispersants are approved, I would think the approved disposal sites would accept that material too.

I just don't think we're prepared for disposal of the size we're faced with right now.

I'm sure Rachel will get to it, and/or Anderson Cooper, but I hope they don't do it in that yell at somebody way that takes way too long to get a result.

[maxsolomon]

3. where's it supposed to go?

inject it back into the underground oil resevoirs? we'll be mining landfills for oil in our near future anyway.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Yes we will. In my area we can only recycle #2 plastics. Guess where all the rest of them go?

[NNN0LHI]

6. Someone suggested they incinerate it a couple of days ago

I was a little skeptical of that when I read it.

Don

[lostnfound]

16. There are some 'waste to energy' plants including Florida

but it's a little scary even to think about it being crude oil let alone dispersant?

[Catherina]

17. Let BP haul it back to their corporate hqs.

Of course we know that will never happen

[damntexdem]

7. Well why should only those on the coast suffer?

Let's spread the disaster as far inland as we possibly can.

No need to drill in Alaskan waters -- just truck and barge the waste up to Wassila.

[limit18]

10. Ship it to Wahington and mix it with bullshit up there?

[Catherina]

18. If it were my choice, it would end up in front of the Senate n/t

[madmax]

11. Share the wealth

ship it to England.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. They should dump it on the pig farm in Texas.