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Coast guard begins oil spill cleanup
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PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The Coast Guard used sheets of plastic and skimmers Sunday to contain and clean up a crude oil spill in a southeast Texas port. The spill was contained in a 2-mile area and was not believed to have hurt any local wildlife, the Coast Guard said.
Two vessels collided on Saturday in Port Arthur, Texas, causing as much as 450,000 gallons of oil to spill, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Officials contained the spill, but were still assessing the scope and cause. No injuries were reported from the collision.
The spill happened Saturday when an 800-foot tanker collided with a towing vessel pushing two barges near Port Arthur.
Houston Chronicle, Julio Cortez/ ASSOCIATED PRESS
The tide lifted the two ships and they separated shortly after midnight Sunday without more oil being spilled, Petty Officer Richard Brahm said.
It's still not clear how much oil
is in the water and how much remains in the tanker, Brahm said. A 15-by-8 foot hole in the tanker is near the water line, so plenty of oil could still be in the portion of the vessel under water, he said.
"The unknown of it is mother nature and what she's going to do with spreading the oil around."
The ship's crew members said Saturday they pumped 69,000 barrels from the damaged tank that carried 80,000 barrels, so they have 11,000 barrels — about 450,000 gallons — that they could not account for. Brahm said.
Several local officials said only 1,000 barrels, or about 42,000 gallons, of oil had been spilled into the water.
Even if 450,000 gallons were released, the spill would still be much smaller than the 11 million gallons spilled in Prince William Sound when the Exxon Valdez ran ground in 1989.
J. J. PUNKETT Coast Gaurd captain
Coast Guard Capt. J.J. Plunkett said initial reports indicated none of the oil in the Texas spill had affected area marshes or hurt any local wildlife.
The spill in Port Arthur was contained using boom, which Brahm described as a plastic wall
placed in the water to stop the oil from spreading. He said a cleanup crew was using skimmers Sunday to suck oil and water from the surface and place it in bags.
He said officials believed the oil spill was "pretty much contained" in a 2-mile stretch of the Sabine Neches Waterway, where the spill took place and that runs along the city of Port Arthur, about 90 miles east of Houston.
"That would make the cleanup shorter, not longer," Plunkett said. "The unknown of it is mother
nature and what she's going to do with spreading around the oil."
P l u n kett said the cleanup effort was expected to last at least through Sunday.
No one was injured in Saturday's collision, but the port of Port Arthur was closed and some nearby residents were evacuated for about seven hours. The cause of collision was still under investigation Sunday.
Fewer than 100 people in a 28-block area of downtown were evacuated from the area following the collision because hydrogen sulfide — a hazardous gas with a rotten egg smell — was emanating from the oil, Port Arthur police officer Wendy Billiot said.
But they were allowed to go home by Saturday evening after the gas was no longer being detected.
Brahm said the smell of sulfur contained in the oil remained strong Sunday morning, and people were kept away from the water where the spill occurred, though they were allowed in their homes.
During the collision, the towing vessel also hit another tanker that was tied to a pier. Brahm said that tanker sustained some damage,
The damaged tanker, the Eagle Atome, is owned by AET Tankers, a Malaysian company with offices in Houston. AET said in a statement that it was working with authorities to determine how much crude had spilled.
but had no leaks.
EDUCATION
Facebook group decries budget cuts
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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is facing an eight percent budget cut in addition to earlier cuts in past months, threatening class selection, student services and programs and part-time professors.
Suken Shah, a part-time professor with a master's in business administration, created the Facebook group "SaveUNLV", where members can support the university and protest the budget cuts from the state.
"I want to have a big movement... have people sharing the same voice," Shah said. "[The voice] says 'no more cuts to higher education.'"
Shah said he organized the group because people cannot always go to rallies and sit through the duration of a protest, but with this group they can still show their support for the cause.
"The governor needs to realize you can't sacrifice higher education." he said.
Shah said he was concerned not only because his position is being eliminated, but also because there is less class selection for students.
According to Shah, the local news sparked his interest in starting the group. He heard a news anchor saying higher education officials were "rolling over" and letting cuts happen.
UNLV President Neal Smatresk said that there are two things to focus on in order to prevent further cuts, the first being community interest.
Shah explained that limited class selection can result in extended graduation times.
"If people care about this, I say let their feelings known to lawmakers," Smatresk said.
The second is to make it clear that cuts are not healthy for the university, as people are currently enrolling in record numbers.
Smatresk said the proposed cut would be taken on top of reductions the system has already suffered.
["Higher education] gave more than any other agency," Smatresk said. "Why do we have to suffer again?"
Gerry Bomotti, the senior vice president for Finance and Business at UNLV, gave a bigger picture of the budget cut situation.
"The overall context is that UNIV has had cuts for the past four years," Bomotti said, "And if you just add this latest eight percent estimate to that total, you get a cumulative reduction number of nearly $57 million in base funding - a very significant number."
Bomotti also mentioned the university has struggled to meet the previous cuts, in particular the ones effective this fiscal year.
With the very real possibility of programs and departments being eliminated or reduced, Bomotti said the Joint Evaluation Team has been working on program elimination or reduction options for several months and will be sending a report and recommendation to Smatresk before the end of this month.
—Victoria Gonzolez writes for the The Rebel Yell at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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