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Cleanup under way after 100 gallons of oil spill into Foss Waterway
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
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Updated: August 18th, 2008 10:17 AM About 100 gallons of diesel oil have spilled into Tacoma's Foss Waterway and cleanup efforts have begun, a state official said this morning. "There's a visible sheen on the water," said Curt Hart, a state Department...
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2 miles of Mississippi River closed
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Associated Press The Coast Guard has closed two miles of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after more oil spilled from a disabled barge. Chief Petty Officer Mike O'Berry says investigators don't know how much oil leaked when the barge shifted or...
Tags: mississippi, environment, oil spill, Mississippi River, Coast Guard Petty, mile stretch, oil leak
Coast Guard expects Mississippi to be fully open by Tuesday, nearly a week after oil spill
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility More ships than usual were using the stretch Monday because they had been backed up by the river's closure, said Brett Bourgeois, executive director of the New Orleans Board of Trade. The week before the collision, about 35 to 40 tankers, freighters and...
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Effect of Mississippi Oil Spil in New Orleans
A large fuel spill that has shut down 100 miles of the Mississippi River for four days has had a limited impact on wildlife so far, but officials are worried about fragile wetlands downstream. Almost 800 cleanup workers used containment booms, vacuum...
Tags: oil spill, environment, mississippi, disaster, pollution, wildlife, fuel spill
Words and scenes from the first workout
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
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Tags: mississippi, Star Tribune, oil spill, Mississippi River
Massive oil spill clogs Mississippi River
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Mississippi River reopened to limited traffic on Friday, two days after a barge collided with a tanker spilling hundreds of gallons of fuel oil, the US Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard had closed off a 100-mile stretch (160-kilometer) of the river,...
Tags: mississippi, Mississippi River Reopens, US Coast Guard, oil spill, Port of New Orleans, massive oil, ship traffic, sugar firm, Gulf of Mexico, river reopened
Hoosier barge spill shuts part of Mississippi
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed for days as crews clean a 12-mile oil slick caused Wednesday when a barge owned by an Indiana firm collided with a tanker, officials said. Heavy, almost tar-like fuel oil spilled from the...
Tags: mississippi, Mississippi River, oil spill, US Coast Guard, Coast Guard Scrambling, New Orleans, Gulf of Mexico, fuel oil
Shipping company charged in oil spill
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A Hong Kong-based shipping company has been charged with obstructing justice in last year's ship accident and spill that dumped 53,000 gallons of toxic fuel into San Francisco Bay. A federal grand jury indicted Fleet Management on Tuesday for allegedly...
Tags: ship company, grand jury, San Francisco Bay, Fleet Management Ltd., federal grand, obstructing justice, felony counts, oil spill
Collision closes Mississippi River at New Orleans
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Coast Guard says 19 miles of the Mississippi River at New Orleans are closed after a tugboat pushing a barge and a 600-foot tanker crashed, causing diesel to leak into the water. Coast Guard Petty Officer Jaclyn Young says the barge split in half.
Tags: mississippi, fuel spill, environment, Mississippi River, wildlife, New Orleans, oil prices, oil spill, collision closes, Coast Guard
Towing of sunken ship would not cause oil spill
San Fernando :: Philippines | about 1 year ago
Credibility Towing the sunken MV Princess of the Stars to shore would not cause oil spill because the bunker fuel was contained in the service tank and leakage is not possible, said a Coast Guard official here Tuesday. Lieutenant Commodore Rafael Bellen, officer...
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