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Arkansas Times Launch Campaign to Crowdfund Oil Spill Reporting Project

2013-06-25 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: InsideClimate News this week launched a campaign to raise funds for an innovative national-local reporting collaboration with the Arkansas Times that will investigate the causes and consequences of the Exxon pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark. on Mar. 29. The campaign is being run on ioby.org, an innovative, non-profit crowdfunding platform. "We are appealing to our readers to help crowdfund this effort and show that modest donations can have a cumulative impact to improve the public interest,"...

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Shell to resume Nigera delta oil spill compensation talks

2013-06-19 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Oil company Shell will resume talks next week in London with lawyers representing 15,000 of the poorest people in the world who are claiming millions of pounds' compensation for oil spills on the Niger delta. But Martyn Day, of Leigh Day law firm which is acting for the communities, said the case could still go to a full high court trial in London in 2014. The Shell petroleum development company of Nigeria (SPDC) has admitted liability for two spills from a pipeline in the Niger delta in 2008, but...

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Catastrophic Oil Spill Threat to Canadian River Basin

2013-06-17 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: The Mackenzie River Basin, a vast globally important area in Canada, is at great risk from climate change and a catastrophic oil spill from the tailing ponds of tar sands mining, according to a panel of nine Canadian, American and British scientists. The warning came just days after the Canadian Oil Producers Association says it expects oil production from tar sands in the region to double by 2030. The Mackenzie River Basin showing how it drains north to the Arctic Ocean. A report produced after...

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ExxonMobil Slow In Responding to Mayflower Oil Spill, Congressman Says

2013-06-16 11:26:17| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

As thousands of barrels of oil leaked into a Mayflower neighborhood on March 29th, was ExxonMobil too slow to respond? That is the question raised by new documents released by a Congressman Ed Markey who as a ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee is investigating the spill.

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