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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: Shetland Oil Spill
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.163355.25171@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Keywords: Supertanker, Oil
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <rodger.1@ray.uct.ac.za>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 16:33:55 GMT
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- In article <rodger.1@ray.uct.ac.za> rodger@ray.uct.ac.za (Duffett, RV, Rodger, Radiobiology (RAY Supervisoor)) writes:
- >It is ironic to see people chaining themselves to embassies in protest over
- >isolated Plutonium shipments while daily hundreds of giant, fragile
- >motorised balloons, filled with millions of litres of oil, sail the oceans
- >of OUR world. The catastrophes like the Valdez and now the Baer are only
- >the tip of the iceberg in a series of daily disasters which escape world
- >headlines.
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- I agree, but it's easier for Greenpeace, et al. to jump on a fragile nuclear
- industry with wild tales of radiation raining from the heavens than to attack
- entire oil-producing/consuming countries.
-
- Tino
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- "Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders..." - J.D.
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