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Documents reveal Army Corps earlier concerns about coal trains & wetlands
2013-09-20 14:36:52| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUOW: Proposals to make the Northwest a major coal exporting region have made for a familiar debate over the potential impacts on people and the environment. Will it help the economy? What will coal dust do to the air we breathe? Will our rivers and marine waters be threatened? Heres another question: Will coal trains harm the wetlands of the Pacific Northwest? So far, wetlands have not been a central part of the public debate over coal exports. But concern over these ecologically sensitive areas are...
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Panel says Louisiana gas, oil industries neglected wetlands, files lawsuit
2013-09-01 05:12:35| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
John Barry is vice president of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, which received backlash from politicians after filing a suit against oil and gas companies.
La. Flood Board Sues Oil Industry For Destroying Wetlands
2013-07-25 15:46:11| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The government board charged with protecting New Orleans from flooding sued the oil and gas industry on Wednesday.
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Louisiana agency sues big oil firms for hurting wetlands
2013-07-24 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Louisiana agency sued 97 oil companies - including BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc - in state court on Wednesday for allegedly damaging hundreds of miles of sensitive wetlands by cutting through them with pipelines and transportation canals. The suit demands the oil industry pay for or remediate environmental damages stemming from decades of work that allegedly caused erosion and hurt coastal wetlands - which experts say serve as critical buffers during floods...
New Pipeline Threatens Wetlands in Gulf Coast Communities
2013-07-22 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In a region still scarred by the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Plains Southcap, LLC, is building a pipeline meant to carry conventional crude oil from Alabama to Mississippi, threatening waterways in both states. Set to finish construction this year, Southcaps underground pipeline would carry crude from the Ten Mile Terminal in Mobile, AL, to the Chevron refinery in Pascagoula, MS, tearing a path through Hamilton Creek, which feeds into Big Creek Lake, as well as Bangs Lake, only two...
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