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Aquatic First Responders Form Mosquito Fleet Halt Climate Change & Shell Oil
2016-05-31 08:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MintPress News: After years of marches and land-based blockades, environmental activists are now taking to the seas to stop the growth of the fossil fuel industry and protest the environmental threats facing them. Inspired by actions last year against Shell Oil Co.s plans to drill in the Arctic Circle, which included a kayak-based blockade, activists in the Pacific Northwest are forming a new Mosquito Fleet - a swarm of tiny boats that they hope will have a big impact by acting together. Lois Canright,...
'Dirty Blizzard' sent 2010 Gulf oil spill pollution to seafloor
2016-05-31 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Scientists working in the Gulf of Mexico have found that contaminants from the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill lingered in the subsurface water for months after oil on the surface had been swept up or dispersed. In a new study, they also detailed how remnants of the oil, black carbon from burning oil slicks and contaminants from drilling mud combined with microscopic algae and other marine debris to descend in a "dirty blizzard" to the seafloor. The work, published May 30 in the Proceedings...
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Kuwait to invest nearly $114bn in new oil projects
2016-05-31 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
National oil company Kuwait Petroleum has reportedly revealed plans to invest K.D34.5bn ($113.7bn) in new oil projects over the next five years.
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US oil prices rise as summer driving season starts
2016-05-31 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
US oil prices have increased due to the country's summer driving season beginning, signalling high demand.
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Hidden, Abandoned, Dangerous: Old Gas And Oil Wells In Neighborhoods
2016-05-30 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In 2007, Rick Kinder was working for a contractor, building a house in southern Colorado. The workers had just finished putting in all the doors, windows and sealing the house. Kinder and a colleague were working in the crawlspace, hanging insulation. "And we just heard this big roar and then a big boom, and it threw us against the walls, and it just blew the whole top of the roof off," Kinder says. Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission He and his colleagues didn't know it, but they...
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