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Canada: Environmental NGOs Launch B.C. Oil-Spill Study
2013-10-25 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: In coming weeks, more than a thousand small, yellow cards will traverse the waters around Vancouver and the Gulf and San Juan islands, washing up along the shores of the Salish Sea. Those who stop to pick them up will see a simple message: "This could be oil." The cards are part of an oil-spill study launched Thursday by members of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Georgia Strait Alliance. By dropping hundreds of the small pieces of bright yellow marine plywood from boats into...
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BP in court over oil-spill payments
2013-07-08 17:10:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Oil giant BP is back in court in the US to try to limit compensation payouts from a fund set up to help those affected by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Gripes, praise at oil-spill meeting
2013-05-10 12:39:00| Chemicals - Topix.net
After a meeting Thursday, between Exxon Mobil officials and residents of the Mayflower subdivision that was most affected by a March 29 oil spill, some residents said their neighbors' demands were getting out of hand and others said it is Exxon Mobil that isn't being fair.
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No oil-spill returnees, but dead animals up
2013-04-30 12:51:22| Chemicals - Topix.net
One month after an Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured, spilling more than 200,000 gallons of oil into a Mayflower subdivision and a cove of Lake Conway, the numbers of wildlife displaced, injured or killed have significantly risen as the cleanup has increasingly focused on the backwater.
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