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Nuclear plant spills radiation into Lake Michigan
2013-05-08 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Last summer, a leaky tank led to the shutdown of the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan. So plant owner Entergy patched up the leak, fired back up the reactor, and hoped for the best. Unfortunately, the best did not materialize. The tank began leaking again. But no worries, thought the Einsteins at Entergy, it was only leaking a gallon a day. That was OK, they figured, because the NRC had allowed it to leak up to 38 gallons a day. As of Friday, they were still doing that whole "hoping...
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In the Gulf, a long history of oil spills and cover-ups
2013-05-07 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When BP`s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in 2010, it hemorrhaged roughly 210 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. We know now, thanks to recent court hearings and settlements, that all this happened because oil company managers were cutting corners on safety, and the federal governments monitoring system for offshore drilling was broken. We also know that it wasn`t the first time oil companies had spilled in the Gulf. What we dont know - and probably never will - is how much...
Exxon's Pegasus oil pipe spills crude into Missouri yard
2013-05-02 12:07:19| Energy - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil Corp's near 70-year-old Pegasus oil pipeline spilled a small amount of crude on Tuesday into a residential yard in Ripley County, Missouri, a month after the same pipe spewed thousands of barrels of crude in Arkansas.
Exxon says Missouri oil spills from already-ruptured Pegasus line
2013-05-01 20:44:28| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil confirmed on Wednesday that an oil spill occurred Tuesday on its Pegasus crude pipeline in Ripley County, Missouri, the same line that ruptured thousands of barrels of oil into an Arkansas neighborhood at the end of March.
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Exxon says Missouri oil spills from already-ruptured Pegasus line
2013-05-01 20:09:02| Chemicals - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil confirmed on Wednesday that an oil spill occurred Tuesday on its Pegasus crude pipeline in Ripley County, Missouri, the same line that ruptured thousands of barrels of oil into an Arkansas neighborhood at the end of March.
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