Cleanup ongoing for San Francisco Bay oil spill

I went to Crissy Fields today, on Day 6, and it looked like the coordinated relief efforts were paying off (hats off to those who participated) - though I only make it to Crissy + Aquatic Park. Of course I could only see this from a distance as beaches were cardoned off + the light was fading, so the lasting effects may not be so obvious, especially when the oil begins to sink or gets absorbed by the Bay, making aggregate contamination a large concern on the salmon or oyster that we see on our dinner plate, maybe for years to come, but the resident wildlife doesn't even have a choice on the matter...

Actually it is the Guvs fault. Maybe we should be suing him for a veto he did 3 years ago: San Jose Mercury News Governor vetoes bill expanding ship escort law Vessels with dangerous gas, chemicals targeted Friday, September 17, 2004 Paul Rogers Rejecting an attempt to add an extra layer of safety for ships that carry explosives, pesticides, acids, pressurized gas and other hazardous materials, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill Thursday that would have allowed the state to require tugboat escorts for ships carrying dangerous chemicals in California harbors.

Ummm it was an american pilot on the ship when it crashed. It may have been a chinese vessels this was a homegrown disaster. Get over your conspiracy theories. Geez you wonder why the rest of the country turns a blind eye to California when they want help.

Looks like the Chinese are now exporting ecological disasters, along with all their other lousy, hazardous products!

The Port Authorities in Oakland, Long Beach and San Francisco were appointed and may have connections to Asian Gangs, Norman Hsu, weapons smuggling using COSCO ships to street gangs, and the democratic party in California - including Diane Finestein, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Kamela Harris, Fiona Ma and Jerry Brown, who all received campaign funding from Norman Hsu and others. They may have received campaign contributions in exchange for appointments and strategic agreements with shipping companies. A Chinese Port Operator in Port of Oakland Was Linked to Weapons Smuggling on a COSCO Ship, the Empress Phoenix, in 1996. They may try to control investigation of the Cosco Busan accident and oil spill.

A Chinese Port Operator in Port of Oakland Was Linked to Weapons Smuggling on a COSCO Ship in 1996: A ship owned by COSCO, a Chinese government-run company that currently operates two giant terminals at the Port of Long Beach, California was found 10 years ago to have been used to smuggle a huge cache of illegal weapons - with the smugglers saying they planned to import missiles that could "take out a 747." On the night of March 18, 1996, undercover Customs and BATF agents discovered 2000 AK-47's in a container smuggled aboard the Empress Phoenix, a ship owned by the China Ocean Shipping Company [COSCO] docked at the Port of Oakland. The guns were manufactured by another state-run company, Poly Technologies, the international outlet for Chinese weapons sales. The Empress Phoenix's gun cargo was earmarked for sale to deadly LA street gangs. It was the largest seizure of fully operational automatic weapons in the history of U.S. law enforcement.

Why would our coast guard allow this ship into the harbor under such foggy conditions?Why do we have them if they don't keep ships out that could do damage to the bridges?Who ever was on duty at the coast guard & on the ship should loose their jobs.

Thank you, Arnie! Perhaps it's just too much to ask the EPA + Bush to do something about this mess and help PROTECT the environment (the silence is deafening). I hope they can save the Farallon Islands, wildlife from this + that they get some lights, bells for the base of the bridge towers from the punitive damages $$ - scary to think what would happen if the bridge broke.