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Nigeria demands Shell pay $4bn for 2011 offshore oil spill damage
2014-11-28 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
The Nigerian Parliament is demanding Shell to pay about $4bn for the damage caused by an oil spill at its Bonga offshore field in December 2011.
Chemical Spill Suspected In Hopewell Fish Kill
2014-11-27 19:18:36| Waste Management - Topix.net
State regulators suspect a chemical spill is the cause of a fish kill in a creek in Hopewell. Virginia Department of Environmental Quality spokesman Bill Hayden says about 5,500 pounds of ammonium carbonate spilled at Honeywell International's plant in Hopewell on Monday night.
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Judge sides with Exxon Mobil on gas spill cleanup in Queens
2014-11-21 10:12:26| Chemicals - Topix.net
A judge said there's not enough evidence to show that the gas spill under this building in Long Island City is in danger of exploding. A federal judge is not convinced that the methane gas leaking from waste oil underneath a Queens building is a ticking time bomb ready to explode.
Shell Admits to Misjudging Nigeria Oil Spill
2014-11-14 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: International oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has admitted that the 2008 Oil spills in Bodo, Nigeria were larger than initially anticipated. In the run-up to a high-profile compensation case in England's High Court, the Anglo-Dutch company announced on Thursday that the two spills had been far greater than the previously believed figure of 4,144 barrels. However Shell did not give a revised figure. Leigh Day, the law firm bringing a compensation bid for 15,000 members of Nigeria's Bodo community,...
U.S. judge rejects BP bid to oust Gulf spill claims chief
2014-11-10 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: BP Plc has failed to persuade a federal judge to oust the administrator overseeing payouts to businesses and individuals claiming damages arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans on Monday rejected several arguments by the London-based oil company to remove the claims administrator, Patrick Juneau. BP claimed that Juneau had a conflict of interest because he previously advised Louisiana over claims, made misleading statements about that...
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