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Precious Kingdoms (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rio de Janeiro - Some 2,000 penguins have been found dead since Sunday in the southern Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, victims of an oil spill from an unidentified ship, Brazilian media reported Thursday citing the authorities. Hundreds of other animals survived the catastrophe and were being taken care of by experts in Santa Catarina state capital Florianopolis, after...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Three small oil spills in the Bay of Fundy have halted the offloading of crude from an offshore buoy at the Canaport facility in Saint John harbour.
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State of the Division (Free subscription) | yesterday
CSPAN showed an earlier segment of Washington Journal with newly named Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. I watched to learn more about her and was quite surprised to hear her quote the size of the oil spill. Governor Palin (at the 4:00 minute mark): A drunken captain that ran the ExxonValdez ship into Bligh Reef and spilled 11,000 gallons of fuel Wrong!...
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Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 29 (DPA) Some 2,000 penguins have been found dead since Sunday in the southern Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, victims of an oil spill from an unidentified ship, Brazilian media have reported citing the authorities.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Rio de Janeiro - Some 2,000 penguins have been found dead since Sunday in the southern Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, victims of an oil spill from an unidentified ship, Brazilian media reported Thursday citing the authoriti...
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SFist (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The California State Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday "that lowers the allowable response time to an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay from from six hours to two hours." Penned by sanity-estranged Sen. Carole Migden, she says that the bill is "necessary to combat the bay's natural tidal action" that spreads oil spills right-quick. And it will, hopefully, prevent tragic events like...
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Olives101.com (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Workers with the state Department of the Environment and the city Fire Department plan today to flush a 2-mile stretch of sewer leading to the harbor after it was contaminated over the weekend by a 6,000-gallon olive oil spill at an East Baltimore business, authorities said. By Gus G. Sentementes, photo by ...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
LOS ANGELES -- Officials from a Southern California county showed symbolic support Tuesday for offshore oil drilling along the same coast stained by a 1969 spill that spawned modern environmentalism.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
As city firefighters and crews from the state Department of the Environment worked last night to clear the remains of a 5,000-gallon olive oil spill from the Baltimore harbor, police were seeking those who caused the spill by puncturing a tank in East Baltimore. Fire Department Capt. Paul Demme said the department was notified about 2:30 p.m. Saturday that olive oil had entered storm...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
As city firefighters and crews from the state Department of the Environment worked last night to clear the remains of a 5,000-gallon olive oil spill from the Baltimore harbor, police were seeking those who caused the spill by puncturing a tank in East Baltimore. Fire Department Capt. Paul Demme said the department was notified about 2:30 p.m. Saturday that olive oil had entered storm...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Officials from a Southern California county showed symbolic support Tuesday for offshore oil drilling along the same coast stained by a 1969 spill that spawned modern environmentalism.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Officials from a Southern California county showed symbolic support Tuesday for offshore oil drilling along the same coast stained by a 1969 spill that spawned modern environmentalism.
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IndianPad - Popular Stories (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Oil Spills are nothing short of an environmental disaster, but a scientist has found a way to clean-up the toxic sludge- though oil-eating bugs! Slick dark waters, trapped-flailing birds and dead fish. They are enduring images of major oil spills everywhere. The gulf war of 1991 saw the worst of environmental crisis. Dr Banwari Lal, a scientist at The Energy Resources Institute ( TERI...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Santa Barbara County became a symbol of the changing U.S. mood as its board of supervisors debated whether to welcome new wells along California's shores.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
2-mile stretch of sewer will be flushed after spill of olive oil worth $90,000 Workers with the state Department of the Environment and the city Fire Department plan today to flush a 2-mile stretch of sewer leading to the harbor after it was contaminated over the weekend by a 6,000-gallon olive oil spill at an East Baltimore business, authorities said.
