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Feeling Duped, Ventura Blasts Company Restarting Pipeline After Oil Spill
2016-07-07 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Los Angeles Times: In a scathing letter, the city of Ventura has asked the company responsible for a nearly 30,000-gallon oil spill last month to shut down the pipeline involved in the leak and explain how it was reopened on Thursday with scant notice. The city also surprised Crimson Pipeline LLC on Friday with a legislative subpoena, which demands the company turn over by mid-July a raft of documents about the pipeline`s maintenance, inspections and memos from the June 23 spill. The impetus for the city`s more...
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Birds Eye View of Catastrophic Toxic Mine-Waste Spill in Brazil
2016-07-02 06:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Nov. 5, 2015, a mine-waste dam collapsed at an enormous iron mine in southeastern Brazil. The wave of toxic waste was at least twice the volume of the Johnstown Flood and wiped out buildings and bridges more than 40 miles downstream. Using post-spill satellite imagery and Google Earth, we have produced a bird`s-eye view of the devastation wrought by the deluge of arsenic-laced sludge. During the spill, we reported extensively on the immediate aftermath visible on satellite imagery, the remaining...
BP Oil Spill Cost Fishing Industry At Least $94.7 Million in 2010
2016-06-28 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Picayune: The BP oil disaster cost the Gulf of Mexico's commercial fishing industry $94.7 million to $1.6 billion and anywhere from 740 to 9,315 jobs in the first eight months, according to a new study by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The $355,888 study measured the effect of the Macondo well blowout from May through December 2010, the same period of time that is being used to calculate claims being paid to fishers under a 2012 court-approved settlement agreement between private parties and BP....
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Health officials in Peru: oil spill cleanup workers face poisoning and burns
2016-06-27 09:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Local residents and workers contracted to clean up a recent crude oil spill in Perus northeastern Loreto region lacked appropriate safety equipment, according to a preliminary report by the Dátem del Maraón Health Network, which is part of the Loreto Regional Health Office (DIRESA). Health risks could include poisoning and burns from direct exposure to the oil. According to the report, which was obtained by Mongabay, the oil spill reported on June 24 was caused by a crack at kilometer 213.4...
Ventura oil spill misses the ocean, but damage on land is unclear
2016-06-26 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Before the sun rose Thursday, Kirk Atwater`s wakeup call was a noxious breeze that filled his bedroom with fumes. He stepped out of his ranch that overlooks an arroyo in the Ventura hills and saw a creek of thick, black goo traveling through the canyon that was dry just the day before. A pipeline valve had somehow opened and sent thousands of gallons of crude oil down into an arroyo that flows through the city of Ventura and reaches the ocean near the Ventura Pier. Atwater, 56, called 911...
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