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State claims a wild card in BP civil deal on Macondo oil spill
2013-02-04 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It is a question that has lawyers and many others on the U.S. Gulf coast buzzing: Will BP strike a massive deal to settle the remaining claims over the Gulf of Mexico well blowout? BP could be nearing a settlement of federal claims with the U.S. Department of Justice, but people tracking the case closely say the company and coastal states, especially Louisiana, might still be far apart. So unless the talks with the states quicken or the judge delays the process in the hope a far-reaching deal...
Arctic oil spill plan 'useless'
2013-02-04 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Environmental campaigners say that a draft plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic ocean is inadequate and vague. The proposal has been in preparation for two years as oil companies look to increase exploration in the region. Greenpeace says it fails to get to grip with the risks of an accident in an extremely sensitive location. Ministers from the eight nation Arctic Council are due to discuss the plan at a meeting in Sweden tomorrow. As summer ice in the Arctic has declined in...
Arctic nations' oil spill plans too vague: Environmentalists
2013-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Plans by Arctic nations to start cooperating over oil spills are vague and fail to define corporate liability for any accidents in an icy region opening up to oil and gas exploration due to global warming, environmentalists said on Monday. A 21-page document by the eight-nation Arctic Council, seen by Reuters and due to be approved in May, says countries in the region "shall maintain a national system for responding promptly and effectively to oil pollution incidents." It does not say what...
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United Kingdom: Seabird death toll rises in mystery oil spill
2013-02-03 02:38:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Investigators were today still trying to identify the source of a pollution spill that may yet kill thousands of seabirds along a stretch of the South Coast from West Sussex to Cornwall. Hundreds of birds were washed ashore over the weekend covered with a sticky, oily substance. Experts say a change in the wind direction yesterday blew many birds out to sea and it is feared they will die of cold and exhaustion. The affected birds, mostly guillemots, are now being treated at RSPCA centres. An illegal...
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Kalamazoo Spill Was 'Most Disgusting Thing,' Says Michigan Resident
2013-02-01 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: No one in the small community of Battle Creek, Michigan knew that pipelines ran so close to their homes. That changed whenan Enbridge pipeline burst, spilling more than 3,000 cubic metres of Canadian oil sands bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in 2010. In interviews with CBC Radio One's On the Coast and All Points West, former Battle Creek resident, Michelle Barlond-Smith, says she was tipped off by the foul smell of the spill. "You could smell something," she said, " combine gasoline, tar, fingernail...
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