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Sunken Great Lakes oil pipeline raises spill fears
2014-03-03 17:07:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A freshwater channel that separates Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas is a premier Midwestern tourist attraction and a photographer's delight, offering spectacular vistas of two Great Lakes, several islands and one of the world's longest suspension bridges.
Oil From the Exxon Valdez Spill Lingers on Alaska Beaches
2014-03-02 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The Exxon Valdez oil spill is not just an awful memory. Oil from one of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history still clings to boulder-strewn beaches in the Gulf of Alaska-and could stick around for decades. Researchers presented evidence of a lingering, foamy, mousse-like emulsion this week at the Ocean Sciences meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Chemical analyses find that this 25-year-old oil is from the Exxon Valdez spill, when the tanker ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince...
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Keystone pipeline foes create 'human oil spill' at rally; hundreds arrested
2014-03-02 16:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Hundreds of students and youth organizers were arrested outside the White House Sunday as they protested against the Keystone XL pipeline under review by the Obama administration. Some demonstrators zip-tied their hands to the White House fence, and others acted out a "human oil spill," lying on black tarps in front of the White House. Nearly a thousand students began their march at Georgetown University and proceeded to the outside of Secretary of State John Kerry's Washington home, where...
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Duke Raked Over the Coals for 35 Million Gallon Ash Spill
2014-02-27 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: An estimated 35 million gallons of arsenic-contaminated water and ash has spilled into the Dan River since February 2, when a stormwater pipe broke beneath an unlined coal ash storage pond at Duke Energy`s retired power plant in Eden, near the North Carolina-Virginia border. Wake Forest University researchers, using a 3D model created with aerial images taken by a camera on their unmanned aircraft, estimate that up to 20 million gallons of ash and water spilled out of the pond on February 2, with...
Subpoenas Issued in North Carolina Coal Ash Spill
2014-02-26 20:34:22| ENR.com: Headline News
Duke Energy has permanently plugged pipes that caused spill.
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