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Ecosystem Recovery from Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Will Take Decades

2013-09-25 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: It will likely take decades before the deep-sea ecosystem around the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site recovers from the impacts of the environmental disaster, according to new research published in the journal PLOS One. When the well head blew out on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010, nearly 5 million barrels (210 million gallons) of oil spewed from the ocean floor, encroaching upon the soft-sediment ecosystem in place at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill and plume covered...

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BP seeks to have Gulf Coast oil spill settlement payments suspended

2013-09-23 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: BP on Monday renewed its request for a federal judge to temporarily suspend settlement payments to Gulf Coast residents and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing a scathing report on alleged misconduct within the court-supervised program. In a court filing, BP attorneys said the report, issued earlier this month by the former FBI director Louis Freeh, shows the settlement program is plagued by problems that need to be fixed. US district judge Carl Barbier has already...

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Oil and fracking chemicals spill into Colorados floodwaters

2013-09-16 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Heavy rains returned to Colorado on Sunday and hampered rescue efforts after last week`s flash floods. The confirmed death toll has risen to seven, and hundreds are still unaccounted for. An estimated 1,500 homes are destroyed. Some 1,000 people in Larimer County, north of Boulder, were awaiting airlifts that never came on Sunday - they were called off because of the foul weather. The floods have also triggered other problems that have gotten a lot less media attention: Fracking infrastructure...

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Niger delta oil spill victims reject 'derisory' Shell compensation offer

2013-09-13 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Niger delta communities devastated by giant oil spills from rusting Shell pipelines have unanimously rejected a compensation offer from the company, calling it an insult, and cruel and derisory. A court in London is now likely to decide how much the Anglo-Dutch firm should pay 11,000 fishermen and others from the Bodo community who lost their livelihoods when the 50-year-old Shell-operated trans-Niger pipeline burst twice within a few months in 2008. Sources close to the negotiations in Port...

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