ApocaDocs: Barge spills oil near Texas wildlife sanctuary

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Posted Mon Mar 24 2014: from Los Angeles Times:


	Barge spills oil near Texas wildlife sanctuary http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1395672180 Oil spilled from a barge in Galveston Bay, blocking the busy Houston ship channel and threatening birds at a nearby wildlife sanctuary, officials and environmentalists said Sunday. U.S. Coast Guard officials said as much as 168,000 gallons may have spilled. The spill was reported Saturday by the captain of a 585-foot Liberian-flagged ship, Summer Wind, which collided with the barge, Coast Guard officials said. The cause was under investigation. Michael Lambert, spokesman for the Galveston County Office of Emergency Management, called it a "significant spill," but not based on the amount of oil. "The real issue is that it's in the ship channel, near environmentally sensitive areas. So there's an economic impact and an environmental impact," he said.

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'Doc Michael says:

Kind of muddies the whole idea of a sanctuary.