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Flint can’t catch a break. It’s bad enough that the residents are still dealing with the aftermath of the 2014 water crisis. Just two days ago, an oil spill was detected in the Flint River. We ...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Fri Jun 17, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Nexen pipeline leak in Alberta spills 5 million litres . (5M litres is a bit more than 31K barrels, according to this site ).
The only reporting I've found on this is at Canadian sites. It appears ...
by tle
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on Fri Jul 17, 2015 at 09:23 AM PDT
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This is just a brief heads up to let all know that the federal natural resource trustees and First Nations Tribes in Michigan have adopted a supplementary settlement with Enbridge on the 2010 Spill ...
by LakeSuperior
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on Tue Jun 09, 2015 at 12:30 AM PDT
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There was an amazing coincidence today. At the same time that a second coal spill polluted the rivers of West Virginia, an Obama administration official, at a House hearing held on "Clean Coal" ...
by Eternal Hope
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on Tue Feb 11, 2014 at 11:06 AM PST
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On January 9th, Freedom Industries, a company that stores chemicals for the coal industry, spilled 7,500 gallons of Crude Methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM), a little known, little understood ...
by JesseC
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on Tue Jan 21, 2014 at 12:35 PM PST
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A month after over 865,200 gallons of oil spilled from Tesoro Logistics’ 6-inch pipeline near Tioga, North Dakota, the cause of the leak is still largely unknown to anyone but Tesoro. The pipeline ...
by Steve Horn
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on Fri Nov 01, 2013 at 06:53 PM PDT
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The Alexander & Baldwin companies, Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar (HC&S) and former division (recently split off) Matson Shipping are just creating one disaster after another.
Recall that in ...
by Karen from Maui
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on Sun Oct 27, 2013 at 10:40 PM PDT
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...then one day he was shootin' at some food and up from the ground came a-bubblin' crude...
From The Ballad of the Beverly Hillbillies
I haven't seen this diaried yet and it seemed important so ...
by ontheleftcoast
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on Thu Aug 01, 2013 at 03:54 PM PDT
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Haven't seen this posted, yet....
Hercules Jack-Up Rig Catches Fire Following Loss of Well Control
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has confirmed this morning that the ...
by UnaSpenser
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on Wed Jul 24, 2013 at 11:51 AM PDT
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On March 29, ExxonMobil spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil in the small town of Mayflower, Arkansas. Exxon, the most profitable corporation in history, has yet to account for more ...
by JesseC
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on Wed Jun 26, 2013 at 03:51 PM PDT
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PA Supreme Court Justice Sentenced;Journalist Shamelessly Defends Corbett;DEP Allows Fracking Spills These are both videos from my new PA politics Internet newscast, Counterpoint PA.
In the Worst Pennsylvanians of the Week, a PA Supreme Court Justice who was convicted of using state-paid court ...
by ProgressivePatriotPA
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on Wed Jun 05, 2013 at 07:14 PM PDT
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On March 29 ExxonMobil, the most profitable company in the world, spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands crude oil from an underground pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas. The pipeline was ...
by JesseC
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on Tue May 21, 2013 at 11:40 AM PDT
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Originally posted to PolluterWatch
As many people who watch the oil industry know, oil spills are not avoidable, preventable, or unlikely. From extraction to combustion, oil is a destructive and ...
by JesseC
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on Tue Apr 09, 2013 at 01:08 PM PDT
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Greenpeace photo of Exxon's Tar Sands oil spill, before the No-Fly zone was established
Sure seems like it. According to reports from the ground, Exxon ...
by JesseC
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on Thu Apr 04, 2013 at 03:38 PM PDT
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The Fossil Fuel and Natural Gas industries have launched an all out publicity blitz to skew the conversation around the highly controversial practice of Hydraulic Fracturing (Hydrofracking). Their ...
by IronicNews
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on Mon Oct 10, 2011 at 02:17 PM PDT
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Here they go again.�Republicans in Congress are trotting out their cynical "drill baby drill" mantra to�try to hoodwink the American people into believing that�expanding oil ...
by rperks
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on Wed May 04, 2011 at 07:49 AM PDT
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AP:
NEW ORLEANS, La. – A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf ...
by Jed Lewison
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on Thu Sep 02, 2010 at 12:40 PM PDT
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Project Gulf Impact is in between. Floating somewhere in a venn diagram between activism, journalism, documentary filmmaking, ...
by Project Gulf Impact
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on Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 06:10 PM PDT
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Yesterday we spent the day indoors (thankfully) at Louisiana State University interviewing professors from schools across campus. We spoke with experts that represented a range of disciplines, from ...
by Project Gulf Impact
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on Thu Aug 12, 2010 at 06:28 PM PDT
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There was a concerted effort to keep the media out of the area when the spill came about, we were kept from seeing the ROV photos, told they didn't exist and told that there was no live feed.
There ...
by Ellinorianne
106 comments
on Wed Aug 04, 2010 at 01:51 PM PDT
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