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Thai Oil Spill Having "Extreme" Impact on Tourism
2013-07-31 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An oil spill that has blackened beaches at a Thai holiday island was having an extreme impact on tourism and could spread to the coast of the mainland and affect the fishing industry, officials and an environmental group said on Tuesday. Tourists were pouring off the island of Koh Samet, 230 km (142 miles) southeast of Bangkok, while soldiers and volunteers in white bio-hazard suits struggled to clear black oily sludge off the white sand. "We're working to move visitors to other locations if they...
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Enbridge Nearly Tripling Oil Spill Dredging in Kalamazoo River
2013-07-31 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Enbridge Inc. will nearly triple the amount of contaminated sediment it dredges in Michigans Kalamazoo River to clean up after a July 2010 oil pipeline spill, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday. The 30-inch pipeline from Sarnia, Ontario, to Griffith, Ind., spilled into Talmadge Creek, a Kalamazoo River tributary. The EPA said that Enbridge is implementing a March order to finish additional dredging this year. The work is above the Ceresco Dam upstream of Battle Creek and...
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Enbridge begins fresh clean-up on 2010 Michigan oil spill
2013-07-30 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Enbridge Energy Partners LP has begun a new round of dredging on the Kalamazoo River, Michigan, to clean up oil from a huge pipeline spill in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday. More than 20,000 barrels of heavy Canadian crude oil gushed into the Kalamazoo River system following the rupture of Line 6B in July 2010, the largest onshore oil spill in U.S. history. Enbridge Energy Partners, the U.S. unit of Canada's largest pipeline company Enbridge Inc received an order...
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BP's profits still being buffeted by Gulf of Mexico oil spill
2013-07-30 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Estimating BP's quarterly profits has suddenly become a finger-in-the-air affair. One factor is the tax rate, which exploded to 45% in the latest period, driven by the interplay of various currencies. The Russian angle is also confusing after last year's cash-plus-shares sale of the 50% share in TNK-BP to Rosneft, which left BP with an enlarged stake in the latter. Earnings from the 19.75% stake in the Russian energy titan are harder to read and disappointed this time. Now the truly wild element...
Four-Months After Mayflower Spill, Much Work Remains
2013-07-29 03:06:46| Chemicals - Topix.net
Monday will mark four months since a pipeline rupture in Mayflower dumped an estimated 3,500 barrels of oil.
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