joshedwards.com » Panama http://joshedwards.com Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:15:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 A Little Bit of Dubai in Portland http://joshedwards.com/2010/10/17/a-little-bit-of-dubai-in-portland/ http://joshedwards.com/2010/10/17/a-little-bit-of-dubai-in-portland/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:46:13 +0000 Josh http://joshedwards.com/?p=1354 On the drive to South Portland this morning to get bagels (I love you 158 Pickett Street Cafe), I saw a surprising oil tanker in port – the Dubai Star!

You might recall that Portland is the largest oil port on the East Coast (thank you Portland–Montreal Pipe Line).

When I got home I did a little research on the tanker, I guess it’s bad PR when the first article one finds is “Oil spills into S.F. Bay south of Bay Bridge.”

Then I found this photo:

Boats gather oil spilled by the Dubai Star oil tanker, background, off the coast of San Francisco on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The Panamanian-flagged ship began leaking bunker fuel during a fuel transfer Friday morning. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Gah!

So yeah, that’s what’s in Casco Bay right now.

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