[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly

Now China, not to be outdone by the US, has their own oil spill. Is this all just coincidence? Perhaps the ChiComs and BP bought stock in seafood? What Sayeth the Mob?

Large China oil spill threatens sea life, water - Yahoo! News

Get out the tinfoil hat TTE 'cause Shell Oil must be in on the conspiracy too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/wo...17nigeria.html

"It was only a few weeks ago [the Article is from June 16th], they say, that a burst pipe belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the mangroves was finally shut after flowing for two months: now nothing living moves in a black-and-brown world once teeming with shrimp and crab.

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As many as 546 million gallons of oil spilled into the Niger Delta over the last five decades, or nearly 11 million gallons a year, a team of experts for the Nigerian government and international and local environmental groups concluded in a 2006 report. By comparison, the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 dumped an estimated 10.8 million gallons of oil into the waters off Alaska.

So the people here cast a jaundiced, if sympathetic, eye at the spill in the gulf. “We’re sorry for them, but it’s what’s been happening to us for 50 years,” said Emman Mbong, an official in Eket."