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Phase Two Of BP Trial Focuses On Amount Of Spilled Oil
2013-10-08 09:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In a New Orleans court room this week, BP and the federal government are arguing over how much oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico. In 2010, after the Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 workers, oil flowed from the out-of-control well for nearly three months. Just how much oil spilled will be key in determining the amount BP will have to pay in federal fines and penalties. Attorneys for the U.S. government and for BP both told a federal judge in opening statements on Monday that they have...
BP Trial, in 2nd Phase, to Set Amount of Oil Spilled
2013-09-29 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: With billions of dollars in penalties at stake, the civil trial of the British oil company BP begins its second phase on Monday, which will set the amount of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 workers and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches. The government will argue that a total 4.2 million barrels of oil was discharged into the sea over 87 days, the equivalent of nearly one-quarter of all the oil that is consumed in the United...
In Wake Of Colo. Floods, A Scramble To Clean Up Spilled Oil
2013-09-26 10:38:27| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A crude oil storage tank lies on its side in floodwaters along the South Platte River, in Weld County, Colo., on Sept.
In Wake Of Colo. Floods, A Scramble To Clean Up Spilled Oil
2013-09-26 05:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The heavy floodwaters in Colorado this month caused more than 37,000 gallons of oil to spill into or near rivers, and the state's oil and gas industry is rushing to fix equipment damaged during the storm. It comes at a time when there's growing public concern about the environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing in the state. In recent years, hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technologies have enabled more oil and gas production along Colorado's Eastern Plains. The boom has led to thousands...
Exxon Pipeline Rupture: Amount of Oil Spilled Is Still Guesswork
2013-08-21 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Homeowners whose lives are still in limbo after thousands of gallons of oil streamed into their neighborhood from a ruptured pipeline on March 29 [3]might never know precisely how much of the sticky black goo oil actually spilled. The working estimate is that 5,000 barrels210,000 gallonsof Canadian heavy crude oil poured from a 22-foot break in ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline [4] on that Good Friday afternoon. But officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [5] and Exxon say the actual...
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