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Oil spill exaggerated – Russian Navy
Dublin :: Ireland | 9 months ago
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But according to a Russian Navy spokesman, the media are exaggerating the scope of the spill. The Navy says the ships were taking part in a refuelling exercise. The slick is in international waters about 80 kilometres off the Irish coast. Irish officials...
Tags: Ireland, oil spill, Irish Coast Guard, Irish Republic
Oil spill near Des Plaines River
Joliet :: IL :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility The EPA will continue to monitor whether the spill harms wildlife, said Mitchell, who added that people would not be affected. Caterpillar has hired a contractor to clean up oil sludge that spilled on the ground, using excavation equipment, he said. In...
Tags: oil sludge, Des Plaines River, Chicago, Joliet Township Caterpillar, holding tanks, spill near, oil spill, Jim Mitchell, William Mitchell, near chicago
Scores killed in Kenya oil blaze
Molo :: Kenya | 10 months ago
Credibility Reports say the fire broke out after hundreds of people gathered to collect the spilt fuel in the town of Molo...One eyewitness told the Nation newspaper that it had been lit by people whom the police had prevented from getting the petrol. The newspaper...
Tags: Kenyan Red Cross, Molo, Nairobi, oil spill, free fuel, oil blaze, Rift Valley, kenya oil, petrol tanker, kenya red
Oil spills at North Slope's Milne Point
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility So far, there's no evidence that any oil from the 24,400-gallon spill at BP's Milne Point oil field on Monday morning contaminated the tundra, though it's possible that some saline water may have escaped on the snow, state regulators said. The spill is...
Tags: North Slope, oil spill, BP Milne Point
Two Indian sailors convicted in S Korea
Seoul :: South Korea | 12 months ago
Credibility Two Indian sailors have been convicted for the leakage of 10,800 tonnes of oil after a ship collided with theirs off the coast of South Korea...The captain of Hebei Spirit, Jasprit Chawla, was sentenced to one-and-a-half years in jail and chief officer...
Tags: South Korean, oil spill, Hebei Spirit, chiefs officer
First Exxon Valdez payments made
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 12 months ago
Credibility The first round of punitive damage payments from the ExxonMobil oil spill in Alaska have been paid, officials said. Following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound -- the nation's worst oil spill -- more than 32,000 plaintiffs claimed...
Tags: oil spill, Exxon Valdez
First round of Exxon payments ordered
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A federal judge in Anchorage on Monday ordered the release of $151 million to thousands of Alaska fisherman and other claimants. Plaintiffs attorney Andrew Ott says he's hopeful people should receive that money some time next week. Lawyers in the Exxon...
Tags: Exxon Valdez, oil spill
One year later, oil spill impacts of Cosco Busan unknown
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The initial Bay Area-wide damage assessment is being done by the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Team, an arm of the state's Office of Spill Prevention and Response. Regulators will eventually seek damages from the Cosco Busan's owner, Regal Stone...
Tags: Cosco Busan, oil spill
No threat seen from Stowe oil spill
Stowe :: VT :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Vt.— Officials in Stowe say there was no threat to the environment or public health when 4,000 gallons of fuel oil leaked from a boiler during the weekend. Officials say the oil from the malfunctioning boiler went into a floor drain and then into holding...
Tags: oil spill
Apprentice at helm in crash that closed Miss. River says he ran towboats without supervision
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility An improperly licensed and overworked towboat pilot said Tuesday that radar and steering lever problems led him to veer his tug into the path of a tanker along the Mississippi River, leading to a crash and oil spill that shut the major waterway for days.
Tags: oil spill
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