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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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Oil spill at Port of Brisbane impacts water birds
2013-07-29 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
An oil spill incident at the Port of Brisbane on Sunday night has leaked five to ten tonnes of oil, which has impacted water birds, such as pelicans and cormorants.
Halliburton admits destroying Gulf oil spill evidence
2013-07-26 04:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the US department of justice said on Thursday. The government said Halliburton's guilty plea was the third by a company over the spill and would require the world's second-largest oilfield services company to pay a maximum US$200,000 statutory fine. Halliburton also agreed to three years' probation and to continue co-operating with the criminal probe into the 20 April 2010 explosion of...
Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf oil spill evidence
2013-07-26 00:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. The government said the guilty plea is the third by a company over the spill, and requires the world's second-largest oilfield services company to pay a maximum $200,000 statutory fine. Halliburton also made a separate, voluntary $55 million payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Justice Department said. Halliburton...
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InsideClimate News, Arkansas Times Reach Funding Goal to Conduct Oil Spill Investigation
2013-07-22 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: InsideClimate News and the Arkansas Times reached the fundraising target for their innovative reporting collaboration after a three-week campaign. Two reporters will soon be on the ground to investigate the causes and consequences of the Exxon pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark. that occurred last Mar. 29. The online fundraising effort that raised $26,790 was run on ioby.org, a non-profit crowdfunding platform. About 260 people contributed to the campaign with an average donation of approximately...
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