A major oil spill off the Scottish coastline. How will we manage?
Just the weather to test the claims of the oil industry that it can cope with a spill.
Here at Shetland’s massive Sullom Voe oil terminal, the winds are vicious, squalls strike without notice and everyone keeps rushing for shelter.
Stretches of bright orange boom have been laid in the bay but not as much as planned because the gusts would blow them away.
Imagine doing this for real in mid winter. Seeing the oil vessels engaged on the exercise takes me back to the Gulf of Mexico last summer, the nightmare spill that is in everyone’s minds today.
That challenged BP. Now in these wild waters, it is Chevron pretending it has lost control of a deep well. They keep stressing that they are not complacent. In these conditions, you cannot be.
A giant Hercules plane has just flown by spraying water to simulate dispersant. Who knows where the wind has blown it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13460855
Oops. I mentioned the S word.
The exercises went off as well as could be expected any day up there given the vagaries of the weather. Let’s face it, the people of these islands are always at their very best when challenged.
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