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Company Cleaning Oil spill on the Mississippi also owns the barge spilling the oil!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
More of that renewable resource; Irony.
It turns out American Commercial lines Inc., that’s the company that owns the barge that is hemorrhaging 420,000 gallons of tar-like No. 6 fuel oil into the Mississippi, is in a ‘distinctly unique position’ to deal with just such an event!
In April 2008 American Lines Inc. acquired the final 70% Summit Contracting, LLC. They already owned 30% of Summit since May 2007.
Diving into a huge helping of irony, It turns out Summit’s expertise happens to be in environmental services.
What kind of ‘environmental services’?
Summit offers emergency response and environmental remediation among other services. When accidents such as this one threaten the environment Summit may have been one of the companies called in to contain, and cleanup the mess.
Environmental remediation will certainly be among the services needed to clean up the accident American Commercial Lines was involved with this day. The Founder of Summit Contracting who had an environmental services and civil engineering background was to stay on and lead Summit as a subsidiary of American Commercial Lines.
In a press statement American Commercial Lines Inc. said the Acquisition of Summit “Uniquely Positions ACL to Serve Chemical and Energy Companies.”
Your results may vary.
‘Forward looking statements’ are based on present expectations and beliefs about future events.
American Commercial Lines Inc., reported approximately $1 Billion as of December 31, 2007.
Forward looking statements are inherently susceptible to risks, uncertainty and changes in circumstance.
This gives new meaning to ‘cleaning up after yourself’.
Did Dolly do it?
Weather conditions this morning at 1:30 a.m., reportedly the time of the accident between the Tintomara and the ACL barge, were a lovely and light 3 to 4 mph, gusting now and again to 7 mph. Weather had nothing to do with this accident. Maybe darkness played a part. The Tintomara can travel at a top speed of 14.2 knots fully ladened.
As the Mississippi snakes it’s way to the Gulf of Mexico from this area, it would be hard to belive that the tanker was traveling at its top speed in the dark in this high traffic area. With Class Det Norske Veritas, +1A1 hull the Tintomara was loaded with both biodiesel and styrene.
Photo Thanks:
Peter Langsdale Tintomara Feb. 2008 dry docked Gothenburg.
Weather Graphs, Weatherunderground.
Labels: American Commercial Lines Inc., Environment, Mississippi River, Summit Contracting, oil spill, oil tanker
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Company Cleaning Oil spill on the Mississippi also owns the barge spilling the oil!
