Hazard to navigation?
Danish ‘Safety Ship’ OMS Pollux, leaking oil after colliding with Morecambe Bay wind turbine
A SHIP is leaking diesel after crashing into a wind turbine off the coast of Morecambe Bay.
Liverpool Coastguard has been in attendance since just after 9am this morning co-ordinating the recovery of the stricken vessel which collided with part of a turbine at Walney Wind Farm.
OMS Pollux has since been leaking marine gas oil, or diesel.
The Danish-registered vessel, with a crew of around 18 on board, remains afloat and there are no reported injuries.
The coastguard revealed that since hitting the turbine pile it has managed to move under its own power to a location north of the port of Liverpool, taking it away from ‘environmentally sensitive areas’.
h/t to WUWT reader “saveenergy”
So the “Bird Choppers” are now “Boat Choppers”, interesting. They want to put hundreds Bird/Boat Choppers off the NJ coast in the next few years. http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/interior-department-achieves-another-milestone-for-offshore-commercial-wind-energy-development-in-new-jersey.cfm Entire East coast http://www.boem.gov/
Will not be a good situation with all the boat traffic and Fog.
I do hope the wind turbine wasn’t damaged…much.
See? All ships should be banned!
But then how do they get the windmills in the middle of the sea?
It isn’t irony (sorry to be pedantic). Irony is when the opposite occurs of something intended. ‘Situational irony’ is much misunderstood, and (sorry to say this) but Americans not only over-use the word, but get it wrong EVERY time (drives us Brits mad). The brilliant comedy TV series, Frasier, often got it so wrong that it became embarrassing. Always remember; It’s not ironic if you get run over by an ambulance, but it IS ironic if you get run over by an ambulance coming to your assistance.
ROFLMAO!!!!
now thats bloody funny!
and was the skipper blind?
or blind drunk?
or are the turbines camo coloured sos not to upset something some ecoloon thought might be scared?
theyre not exactly small objects are they?
how? how?
my sides hurt laughing so much
It’s a start but to get to a really productive position, we will need to introduce a method involving Semtex.
We can then restore our once wonderful Irish Sea vista from the North Wales coast!
It was only a matter of time…!
Now, lets have a fully laden supertanker going at full speed with the watch officer having a kip…
Sounds like ‘Sod’s Law’ to me, if it’s there somethings going to hit it sooner or later!
Reblogged this on gottadobetterthanthis and commented:
Wind blows. Windmills suck.
ozspeaksup says:
August 15, 2014 at 4:32 am
theyre not exactly small objects are they?
Neither are they exactly silent, I may add!
I shall pop over and have a look at this. I live very near Walney.
Ghost of Big Jim is incorrect by his own definition of irony.
The wind farms were intended to “save the planet” from anthropogenic environmental damage (whatever that means)
A ship crashes into one and as a result, is leaking oil into Morecambe Bay.
It is in fact, the equivalent of being run over by an ambulance coming to your assistance.
Anthony’s use of the word “irony” is correct in this instance, despite being American.
**Pedant mode off**
🙂
The Ghost Of Big Jim Cooley says: blahblah
It is irony because the thing they thought would save the environment has caused damage to the environment. So there.
Slightly tangential but this article might be helpful to some who are fighting planning permissions for onshore wind or solar farms in the UK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/fracking/11034270/Wind-farm-needs-700-times-more-land-than-fracking-site.html
Had to happen and hit by a ”safety ship”. How safe is that? One way to get back some of the subsidy paid over paid to the Danish Power Co. that, I presume, installed these inefficient monstrosities.
Yes, semtex sounds a good idea to give that extra nudge. (tissue a’tissue they all fall over)
Subsidy repaid through a massive fine. (please add to above)
Irony is such an ironic thing….
It’s really hard to make a comment on a news article so completely lacking in obvious and necessary detail, something reporters were at one time expected to learn before they ever got a byline.
(1) was the vessel attending to the turbine in some way or just navigating through the area?
(2) did the vessel impact the turbine pylon, or was it hit by one of the turbine blades?
(3) were there any injuries to the crew? [none stated, but it should have been]
(4) was there any damage to the turbine? [none stated].
It sounds like the hull impacted the pylon; a vessel with a crew of 18 probably isn’t high enough above the waterline to intersect the blade sweep.
The major concern of the article seems to be the fuel spill, and that the leaking vessel is now safely away from “environmentally sensitive” areas. If the turbine location is “environmentally sensitive” one must wonder at the impact of putting the thing there in the first place.
I make nothing more of this than I do of the environmentalists that decry every train derailment and every pipeline leak as a major reason to stop looking for oil or gas.
The additional irony is that it was a Danish vessel – Denmark having a huge offshore wind turbine ‘fleet’ – so you would’ve thought the skipper knew how to avoid the things…
At the first attempt to call for assistance the coastguard officer assumed it was a hoax when he asked for identity and the Danish captain said ” O Pollux”
Nothing about this on the BBC website that I can find.
Strange because yesterday the North West local news spent a lot of time with anti-fracking demonstrators and objectors, so oil threats to the environment might be thought to be significant news. Apparently some oil threats are excusable.
There was a plan to extend the area of wind farms off- shore from Lancashire and Cumbria to create an area the size of the Isle of Man. It was objected to by ferry companies operating between Eire , Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and North Wales as a hazard to shipping.
I think that the plans may have been put on hold for the moment , perhaps this incident could make the Govt reconsider.
There are other plans to completely surround England with wind farms . The only good thing about that is , unlike poor Ukraine, we will never be invaded by Putin , his ships would never make it through the wind turbines.
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Every time weather gets too hot or too cold for those quixotic beasts to turn, its ironic that costly, wasteful, quick-start natural gas turbines take up the slack.
“Americans not only over-use the word, but get it wrong EVERY time (drives us Brits mad).”
Hey, at least we’re consistent. 🙂 Your point is well taken. The other word that I find ‘us’ Americans overusing, and using wrong EVERY time (almost) is ‘semantics’.