Followup: Kill It With Fire

Environment Canada
In 1993, Canadian and American government scientists conducted a test burn of an
oil slick off the coast of Newfoundland.

In my last post, I rhetorically asked the question, "'cause a sooty fire drifting toward shore has got to be better than oil drifting toward shore... right?" I can see all sorts of potential nastiness arising from this decision, but apparently the answer is "Yes, it is actually a better option than trying to simply contain and clean up the spill."

Like I said, lots of interesting news today. Not necessarily happy news, but interesting news.