Frankly, I think this bill is a good thing. People really overreact to oil spills that are of this size and aren't of great danger to the environment.Recently we had a thousand small oil spills over the course of a day, isn't that great?
Without reporting, there's no records. I imagine that every oil transport method has risks, but if a particular oil transport method or company is repeatedly causing small spills, wouldn't you want to track it and WARN, FINE, or BAN the offender? What do you think bio? I'm curious.People really overreact to oil spills that are of this size and aren't of great danger to the environment.
The effect is cumulative. Anyway, I imagine you've had direct experience of small oil spills.
I imagine there should be some system that looks at total net oil leaks over the year or in each quarter so that people can see the stats rather than being able to hype up every little event, and such would allow people to see if an oil company is having a large number, an increasing/decreasing number of leaks, and so on. The only issue is if it is publicly reported, while the government or government offices would enforce normal regulations and standards consistently. My issue is that people are using lack of understanding of the scope of oil spills and the damage they are doing to overblow even tiny minor spills that are almost surely going to happen so long as we continue to use fossil fuels, no matter the transport method.