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Indonesia Oil Spill Kills Five People

Effie P — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:09:37 +0000

A leak from an underwater pipeline of state-owned oil firm Pertamina, first reported on March 31st in Borneo, led the Indonesian government to declare a state of emergency for days. The spill spread out from Balikpapan bay covering an area of 130 square kilometres, while the attempts to contain the spill by burning it off […]

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1 Million – Barrel Oil Spill in China Coast Now As Large As Paris

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:37:17 +0000

The Iranian oil tanker, Sanchi, which carried 136,000 tons or one million barrels of highly flammable oil mix, sank last January 6 after colliding with another ship. Aside from the fatal explosion causing its 32 crew members dead or missing, the oil spill has now spread and tripled its area, resulting in environmental and health […]

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TransCanada Oil Spill Raises US Oil Prices, Stirs Its Opponents

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:07:05 +0000

Canadian oil prices plummeted while U.S. crude prices rose last Friday, a day after the 5,000-barrel oil spill on the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota. Levelling with US’ largest pipeline leak of this year, the TransCanada oil spill has also further encouraged environmentalist group and critics to oppose the company’s proposed opening another pipeline, the […]

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Cleaning Oil Spills with Abundant Earth Magnet

Guest Contributor — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:57:09 +0000

For decades, oil spills have devastated our marine ecosystem. On the record, there have been about 13 large-scale oil spills all over the globe, for the past 37 years. Deep Water Horizon and the Exxon Valdez oil spills are the recent big ones and they both summed up about 221 million gallons of oil released […]

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Oil Spill Costs BP $18.7bn

Annika Tostengard — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 05:03:52 +0000

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened in 2010, but BP has only now reached a settlement with the Department of Justice. The agreement states that BP owes $5.5bn to the United States as outlined in the Clean Water Act, and that this money will be paid out over fifteen years. BP must pay $7.1bn […]

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Oil Spill Prevention – Feds “Propose” Stronger Offshore Drilling Regulations

Benji Jerew — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:47:06 +0000

Five years after the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, related to an explosion and series of unfortunate events on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, the US Department of Interior (DOI) has proposed stronger regulations regarding offshore drilling safety and oil spill prevention measures. I’ll admit that, five years ago today, April […]

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Oil Spill West Virginia – Tanker Derails and Explodes (and Just Keeps Burning)

Benji Jerew — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:06:13 +0000

Yesterday, February 16, 2015, a CSX oil tanker train derailed outside of the small towns of Mount Carbon and Boomer, West Virginia, some 33 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. As oil extraction booms in the United States, so does the need for transportation. Unfortunately, the booming oil transportation industry has resulted in even more […]

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Oil Spill – Pipeline Break Spills into Yellowstone River

Benji Jerew — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:50:38 +0000

Saturday morning, an oil pipeline burst outside of Glendive, Montana, resulting in an oil spill, some 300 to 1,200 barrels of oil, some of which made it into the Yellowstone River. Unfortunately, oil. Regarding this particular oil spill, Bridger Pipeline Company is still investigating the cause of the pipeline break. It was estimated that the […]

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Perversion of Justice – Chevron vs Ecuador

Benji Jerew — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:21:46 +0000

After decades of contamination, caused by Texaco (later bought by Chevron) extracting petroleum from beneath Ecuador’s rain forests, a judge in Ecuador rules against Chevron to the tune of $18 billion. On behalf of some 30,000 residents, whose lands are now, twenty years later, contaminated, a juryless court ruled against Chevron, who bought Texaco after […]

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Oil Spills by Rail Spiked Last Year, Gross Understatement

Benji Jerew — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:35:28 +0000

Perhaps the last time anyone heard of an oil spill, it was related to the DeepWater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, estimated to have spilled some 157 million gallons of crude petroleum into the ocean. Offshore oil platforms seem to grab big media attention, but as hard as they are to clean […]

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Marine Life Suffers After DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill

Benji Jerew — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:32:22 +0000

Think “oil spill,” and the first images that may come to mind are a rainbow oil-sheen, tar balls on the beach, and oil-soaked birds. These were just some of the things that we saw after the DeepWater Horizon oil spill, in 2010, but the effects are ongoing. The DeepWater Horizon hasn’t been in the news, […]

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What is Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking), Anyways? [Video]

Benji Jerew — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:05:14 +0000

As petroleum reserves extracted by typical methods begin to run dry, many opportunistic petroleum companies have turned to hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas located in more difficult locations. Natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has become more common in the last decade or so, and a buzzword in political, economic, and environmental conversations, alike. […]

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Truth About BP’s Oil Spill in The Gulf of Mexico Uncovered

Mila Luleva — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:22:39 +0000

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is known as the largest unintentional environmental disaster in history, with around 210 million gallons of Louisiana sweet crude spilled in the Gulf. It took nearly 3 months to clean, with thousands of workers being involved. Although the media followed closely each step of […]

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Deepwater Horizon – BP’s Cure Worse Than the Spill

Benji Jerew — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:50:51 +0000

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, resulting from an explosion on board the drilling platform April 20, 2010, released nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil [about 157 million gallons] into the Gulf of Mexico before it was capped three months later. In order to prevent clumping, at least theoretically, dispersant Corexit 9500 was spread over […]

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Bristol Researchers Discovering Magnetic Soap – The Ultimate Solution For Oil Spills

Mike Sandru — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:59:57 +0000

Doesn’t your heart ache at the sight of oil-covered sea creatures on TV when there’s an oil spill? It does, doesn’t it, but accidents do happen. So from now on, thanks to the University of Bristol, we have a cleansing solution with no side effects: a soap! Obtained by mixing iron with inert surfactant materials […]

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Oil Recycled From BP Spill Used to Make Chevy Volt Plastic Parts

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:53:39 +0000

The BP spill has definitely caused a lot of environmental damage and people spent a lot of money and energy to clean it. To make themselves a greener image the General Motors company has, for marketing purposes, announced that they will use recycled BP spilled oil to make the plastics in the iconic Chevy Volt... which is a half-blood electric.

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Chinese Oil Company Cleaned Up 1,500 Metric Tons of Spilled Crude

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:42:18 +0000

Maybe this is not the typical alternative energy article we've gotten you used to, but it may look like BP could use some Chinese people in their fishing boats to clean up the spill.

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New Discovery: Generating Electricity With Ground Bacteria Shewanella

Cristi — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:42:43 +0000

Bio-chemist David Richardson of the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom said that Shewanella is the ideal candidate for environmental-cleanup tasks as it lives in the underground: "Understanding their biochemistry could help to develop strategies to stimulate their activities [at the cleanup sites]."

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