No doubt enviromentalists will be outraged

On Monday, 233,000 gallons of molasses were spilled into Honolulu harbor. This might sound like the beginning of a zany cartoon, but it’s not. Molasses is really bad for wildlife, and the local officials are dealing with an environmental disaster.

Hawaii News Now says that thousands of fish are popping up dead after the spill:

Reef biologist Dave Gulko from the Department of Land and Natural Resources explained what’s happening. “We’re seeing thousands of them. A lot of fish that are in that very stressed situation in very shallow water. We’re seeing reef fish you’d never see. Butterfly fish, eels, etc… all right up next to the shoreline.”

Molasses spills don’t work like oil spills. Where oil stays at the top of the water, molasses sinks and sucks up all the oxygen in the water that fish need to breathe. According to the Hawaii Department of Health there’s basically nothing they can do to clean it up from the depth...

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/sma...d-in-hawaii-killing-everything/#ixzz2f0gkdod4

 

Molasses was leaked from a pipeline near the pier? They have a syrup pipeline? WTF is that about?

 

Hawaiian vacation. 100's of environmentalist/molasses protesters will have to spew tons of co2, jetting to Hawaii.