Global
Warming prevents fuel delivery…
Photo
credit: AP | The Coast Guard Cutter Healy escorts the Russian-flagged tanker
Renda 250 miles south of Nome Friday Jan. 6, 2012. The vessels are transiting
through ice up to five-feet thick in this area. The 370-foot tanker Renda will
have to go through more than 300 miles of sea ice to get to Nome, a city of
about 3,500 people on the western Alaska
coastline that did not get its last pre-winter fuel delivery because of a
massive storm. If the delivery of diesel fuel and unleaded gasoline is not
made, the city likely will run short of fuel supplies before another barge
delivery can be made in spring. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard - Petty officer 1st
Class Sara Francis)
I have written about the government's Climate Change/Global Warming disinformation program for a very long time. There is more ice in the Arctic than there has been in years. If you were to read my book, COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES you would realize we are still in an ICE AGE. Earth didn't have ice caps until about three-million years ago. The reason why we are not sitting under a mile of ice right now is because somebody tilted Earth 23.5 degrees 12,500 years ago. They did it to thaw the ice caps back so they could mine gold. There is only one object up there in the sky large enough to tilt Earth 23.5 degrees. Impact computer data confirm this. Zecharia Sitchen translation of ancient Sumerian Scrolls confirm this. Immanuel Velikovsky's book IN THE BEGINNING confirms this.
Russian Tanker
Completes Repairs, Resumes Nome Fuel Delivery
January 05, 2012|By Rhonda McBride
and Chris Klint | Channel 2 News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —
A Russian tanker is once again headed for the iced-in port of Nome after taking on all available unleaded gasoline at Dutch
Harbor as cargo, then returning there for minor engine repairs.
Vitus Marine LLC, the company that
contracted the Renda on behalf of Bonanza Fuel, says the ship was repaired at
anchor Wednesday evening, just outside of Dutch Harbor at Broad Bay.
"It was better to have it
anchor and have an assist tug along," said Mark Smith, Vitus Marine’s CEO.
According to supply and logistics
manager Michail Shestakov, the ship was having problems with an engine exhaust
valve that required shutting down the engines. It was determined that it was
safer to return to Dutch Harbor to replace the part.
Smith said the part was replaced
ahead of schedule, and the Renda departed Dutch Harbor before midnight.
Shestakov told Channel 2 that the
Coast Guard icebreaker Healy is traveling about four nautical miles ahead of
the Renda, which is forging ahead into strong northerly winds.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Coast Guard
icebreaker is cutting a path through icy seas for a Russian tanker carrying
much-needed fuel for the iced-in Alaska city of Nome.
The 370-foot ship, hauling more
than 1.3 million gallons of fuel, is scheduled to arrive later Monday or
Tuesday. It was less than 190 miles away on Saturday.
Video and still photo images
released by the Coast Guard show the two vessels moving steadily through ice
jammed seas.
"They're navigating through ice
right now, taking a direct route for now," said Jason Evans, the CEO of
Sitnasuak Native Corp, one of the companies undertaking the delivery.
"They considered going through patches where there might be thinner ice,
but determined that that would have taken them on a longer route."
The city of about 3,500 people on
the western Alaska coastline normally gets fuel by barge. But it didn't get its
last pre-winter fuel delivery because of a massive storm and it could run out
of crucial supplies before spring.
The Russian tanker came upon ice
about a foot thick very early Friday near Nunivak Island, a large island in the
eastern Bering Sea, the Coast Guard said.
The tanker is being shepherded by
the Healy, the Coast Guard's only functioning icebreaker — a ship of special
design with a reinforced hull made to move through ice.
"It's going basically as
planned," Evans said.
If the mission is successful, it
will be the first time petroleum products have been delivered by sea to a
Western Alaska community in winter.
Sitnasuak officials have said they
settled on the Russian tanker delivery plan after determining it would be much
less expensive and more practical than flying fuel into Nome. The vessel, which
is certified to travel through ice 4 feet thick for long distances, normally
delivers fuel to communities in the Russian Far East.
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