Justice Department and Coast Guard to Team Up to get Maritime Oil Dischargers
Many ships have special pipes to discharge waste oil, sludge and sewage water directly into they ocean while at sea. This is a practice that the United States Coast Guard and the US Justice Department want stopped immediately.
There have been numerous occasions of huge abuses in this arena and many Cruise Lines, Cargo Lines and Ship Management Companies have been fined big bucks for these acts, but the problems are pretty wide spread and most of these polluters go undetected and occur when no one is watching out at sea.
The Coast Guard and US Justice Department are not going after accidents, only deliberate acts of waste dumping. The US Justice Department is using a set of Environmental Crime Sections in the Federal Code to go after criminals who falsify documents and sneakily dump.
It use to be old practice to dump waste oil at sea and many ships do have special pipes, which allow them to by-pass oil water separators on board. How much oil is being dumped each year?
Well experts agree that the amount of deliberate dumping far exceeds the amount of accidental spills in our oceans each year. Perhaps satellites can more easily catch the dumpers in the future, something must be done say authorities, because this practice is unacceptable. Consider this in 2006.
“Lance Winslow” - Online WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/ Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance in the Online Think Tank and solve the problems of the World; WorldThinkTank.net www.WorldThinkTank.net/