Weird, the BBC page also says this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t?post=asset%3A171ffe1d-ae8c-4925-a4e0-1c6fa659b42e#post
Weird, the BBC page also says this:
Alastair Grant, emeritus professor of ecology at the University of East Anglia, warns the environmental impacts could be severe: “Jet fuel is approximately 50 times more toxic to aquatic life than diesel oil, which in turn is more toxic than crude oil."
well, FWIW, a cursory examination of kerosene (jet A) and crude oil Safety Data Sheets have kerosene being acutely toxic to aquatic life (including the GHS pictogram) while crude oil does not have...
well, FWIW, a cursory examination of kerosene (jet A) and crude oil Safety Data Sheets have kerosene being acutely toxic to aquatic life (including the GHS pictogram) while crude oil does not have that specific hazard listed. [shrug emoji]
At this point it sounds like none of the sodium cyanide is known to have leaked? It’s just a jet fuel leak so far.
Maybe, but jet fuel's more toxic to sea life than diesel or crude oil, so it's still not good...
The BBC’s disembodied voice was saying the opposite.
Weird, the BBC page also says this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t?post=asset%3A171ffe1d-ae8c-4925-a4e0-1c6fa659b42e#post
I guess that guy is full of shit then. He was saying how it's refined and thus less toxic.
well, FWIW, a cursory examination of kerosene (jet A) and crude oil Safety Data Sheets have kerosene being acutely toxic to aquatic life (including the GHS pictogram) while crude oil does not have that specific hazard listed. [shrug emoji]
Ain't that an allegory and a half.
The Portuguese ship was called the "Solong"... you can't make this stuff up.
And "Immaculate" is the name of the Stena owned tanker, which is not so immaculate anymore.