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How Drought on Mississippi River Impacts You
2013-01-31 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Woe is the Mississippi. A barge carrying light crude hit a bridge near Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Sunday, causing an oil spill. But if you think that is the worst thing that's happened this winter to the river, you'd be wrong. The middle Mississippi-the 200-mile (322-kilometer) stretch from St. Louis to Cairo, Illinois-is experiencing drought conditions unrivaled in the last 50 years. That's been the case since November. From December to March, this part of the river is always at its lowest...
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Mississippi River barge backup tops 1,000 after oil spill
2013-01-30 20:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 1,000 barges were backed up on the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Wednesday after a weekend barge accident and oil spill forced the closure of the major shipping artery, the U.S. Coast Guard said. An 80,000-gallon tanker barge that struck a railroad bridge on Sunday continued to leak crude oil, but cleanup crews have deployed 2,800 feet of boom to contain the spill and airborne spotters have not detected any oil outside the containment area. Response crews will...
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Rock clearing on drought-hit Mississippi River nears completion
2013-01-29 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin removing riverbed rock obstructions from the Mississippi River near Grand Tower, Illinois, on Tuesday night in the final phase of a project aimed at keeping the drought-hit shipping artery open to barge traffic. The river will be closed to navigation daily from midnight until noon between Grand Tower and Thebes, Illinois, 31 miles downriver, where the Corps has been blasting and removing rock pinnacles since mid-December, the Corps said on Tuesday. ...
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Barge hits bridge, spills oil into Mississippi River
2013-01-28 09:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A barge carrying 80,000 gallons of oil hit a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., on Sunday, spilling light crude into the Mississippi River and closing the waterway for eight miles in each direction, the Coast Guard said. A second barge was damaged. Investigators did not know how much had spilled, but an oily sheen was reported as far as three miles downriver of Vicksburg after the 1:12 a.m. (2:12 a.m. ET) incident, said Lt. Ryan Gomez of the Coast Guard's office in Memphis, Tenn. Authorities...
Cisco Energy announces significant flow rates in Mississippi Lime formation, Oklahoma, US
2013-01-28 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Cisco Energy has said that it has resumed strong flow rates in the four operated wells located in the Mississippi Lime formation of the Grant and Garfield county line in northern Oklahoma, US.
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