Beyond Katrina (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Coast Guard Patrols Scene Of Collision --Thu 24 Jul 2008 01:11:05 PM EDT The Coast Guard cutter Razorbill, homeported in Gulfport, MS, enforces a safety zone in the vicinity of a vessel collision that occured early Wednesday morning just north of the Huey P. Long Bridge near downtown New Orleans which resulted in a fuel oil spill of nearly 420,000 gallons. .The vessel in the foreground...
Dirty South Bureau (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
OK, so, did anyone else notice the noxious gas-station smell last night in the neighborhoods by the river? Here I was at Markey’s, paying $3 for Abita Amber (the rising cost of beer here is a whole other subject) and I go outside, and there’s this Mad Max smell everywhere. Turns out that, as of the Times-Picayune’s reporting this morning , we have a 400,000 gallon fuel oil spill in the...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
SPRINGFIELD, Va.--()--VERSAR, Inc. (Amex:VSR) announced today it was awarded a $1.1 million contract from the Commonwealth of Virginias Virginia State University in connection with the modernization of their Boiler Plant. The project involves the closure of three 20,000 gallon fuel oil underground storage tanks, removal and installation of select boiler plant systems and the demolition...
