15,000 Gallon Oil Spill Threatens River and Drinking Water in Native Alaskan Village
Olivia Rosane – Death by a thousand cuts.
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Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills up to 50,000 Gallons of Oil on Indigenous Land in BC
Olivia Rosane – The spill occurred early Saturday morning at the pipeline’s Sumas Pump Station, Trans Mountain told CBC News.
20,000 Ton Oil Spill in Russian Arctic Has ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ for Wildlife
Olivia Rosane – Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an emergency after 20,000 tons of diesel fuel spilled into a river in the Arctic Circle.
The Lawyer Who Fought Chevron for ‘Chernobyl of the Amazon’ is Now a ‘Corporate Political Prisoner’
Dylan Charles – “I’m like a corporate political prisoner… They are trying to totally destroy me.”
Mysterious Ongoing Oil Spill is Already Brazil’s Worst on Record
Alex Pietrowski – No one knows where it is coming from or how to stop it.
Keystone Pipeline Shut Down After Leaking Oil in North Dakota and Nobody’s Talking About It
Emma Fiala – An unknown amount of crude oil has been leaked across the state of North Dakota.
Chevron Has Spilled 800,000 Gallons of Crude Oil and Water Into a California Canyon Since May
Olivia Rosane – California officials ordered Chevron Friday “to take all measures” to stop a release that has spilled around 800,000 gallons of water and crude.
Trump Weakens Rules Meant to Prevent Next Deepwater Horizon Spill
Olivia Rosane – Officials announced changes to the Well Control Rule on the Louisiana coast.
The 14-Year-Long Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico No One is Talking About
Amanda Froelich – It now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history.
The Largest U.S. Oil Spill You’ve Probably Never Heard of is Still Leaking After 14 Years
Lorraine Chow – It will soon surpass the Deepwater Horizon.
US Court says Ecuadorians Won’t Collect Here From Big Oil in ‘Biggest Environmental Case in the World’
Christina Sarich – A US courts just let Chevron/Texaco off the hook for $9 billion.
Pipeline Spill Dumps 105,000 Gallons of Oil on California’s Coastline
Steve Horn – A state of emergency has been declared after a pipeline spill pollutes this scenic coastline.
Chevron Whistleblower Videos Allegedly Show Contamination Coverup
Mike Gaworecki – “These videos prove Chevron knew full well their ‘remediated’ sites were still contaminated before the trial in Ecuador had even finished…”
Children ‘Clean’ Oil Spill With Kitchen Utensils in Bangladesh
Jeremy Hance – Bangladesh struggles to deal with devastating oil spill in world’s largest mangrove forest, home to dolphins and tigers…
Oil on the Tracks: More Oil Spills from Railcars in 2013 than in Previous Four Decades
Ben Jervey, DeSmogBlog Waking Times As a direct result of the Bakken shale oil boom, more crude oil was spilled from rail cars last year than in the previous four decades combined. That’s according to a McClatchy analysis of federal data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which governs rail transport of liquid …
What a Year: 45 Fossil Fuel Disasters the Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Emily Atkin, Nation of Change Waking Times While coal, oil, and gas are an integral part of everyday life around the world, 2013 brought a stark reminder of the inherent risk that comes with a fossil-fuel dependent world, with numerous pipeline spills, explosions, derailments, landslides, and the death of 20 coal miners in the U.S. alone. Despite …
Gulf of Mexico Deep Sea May Need Decades to Recover From Oil Spill
Nicholas St. Fleur, Mongabay Waking Times The catastrophic explosion that spewed some five million barrels of oil deep into the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 will take a heavy toll in the ocean’s lowest layers for years to come. That’s the stark conclusion of seafloor research conducted six months after the Deepwater Horizon oil …
Over 865,200 Gallons of Fracked Oil Spill in ND, Public In Dark For Days Due to Government Shutdown
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog Waking Times Over 20,600 barrels of oil fracked from the Bakken Shale has spilled from aTesoro Logistics pipeline in Tioga, North Dakota in one of the biggest onshore oil spills in recent U.S. history. Though the spill occurred on September 29, the U.S. National Response Center– tasked with responding to chemical and oil spills – did not make …
Whether By Train Or By Pipeline, Oil and Gas Transport Is Unsafe
Don Lieber, DeSmogBlog Waking Times The deadly oil train disaster in Lac Megantic, Quebec on July 5, which (as of this writing) has left 33 people dead, with 17 still missing, and contaminated over 60 miles of local drinking water sources, has initiated a curious response across the media spectrum. Some observers cite this accident as reason …
Opposition Escalates Over Faulty Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline
Stefanie Spear, Guest Waking Times “Enough is enough,” said Michael Bishop during our phone conversation Saturday morning after he found out TransCanada and its vendor, Michels, are planning to dig up buried pipe, part of the 485-mile southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline, on his property in the east Texas rural community of Douglass. The representative …