'There's a gulf oil spill happening every day' new book declares

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While oil companies continue to protest oil spills are rare, and people like Pickens use the word "never," a new book declares
oil spills as common as a cold.

 

Realizing that oil increases toxicity in the ocean, and that scientists have

underlined that; perhaps it is important to know how frequent these oil
spills occur.

Fouad Khan was an environmental consultant for big oil. In his novel Katrina Nights (now available on Amazon),
Fouad succinctly summarizes the one profound learning from his earlier
career. "It's inevitable," he says, "an unavoidable consequence of oil
industry operations ... where there's oil, it will leak."

These are some of the specifics Fouad covers in his book.  He writes of pristine aquifers that
are being silently contaminated, entire communities drinking water
polluted with carcinogens, underground water storage tanks blowing up
from seeped hydrocarbon fumes from the surrounding contaminated soils:
"This stuff happens." He says, "It is the unacknowledged nuclear waste
of the fossil fuel industry and most people have no clue about it."

Fouad is a young man with a solid education related to the environment.  He came to US from Pakistan
on a Fulbright scholarship to study ways to use microorganisms in the
cleanup of leaked oil. So did the protagonist of his novel. Unlike the
author though, our hero fell under the distracting influence of an
adventurous nymphomaniac, got involuntarily involved in a terrorist
plot, chased Hurricane Katrina and ended up discovering a theory that predicts a nigh end for human civilization.

This theory is one of reasons the book's now getting noticed. Dr. Timothy WilkenSynearth.net
writes, "If Fouad is correct, and I believe that he is, then he has

discovered the scientific basis for our present human crisis."for our present human crisis."