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Oil spills from tankers have fallen to less than one-thirtieth of the levels seen in the 1970s
(ourworldindata.org)
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If you include drilling platforms, Deepwater Horizon would have made the 2010 graph equal the 1979 one.
It should include pipelines too.
Using this thread to point out how much methane the natural gas industry and infrastructure leaks into the atmosphere with 25x the greenhouse effect of CO2.
I don't disagree
Better tankers, better safety standards for ships in general, continuous revision and improvements of the SOLAS convention
But has anyone thought of the poor shareholders?
It should be zero. It should have always been zero.