900 gallons of oil spill into Missouri River in ND
Damage around a North Dakota oil well site where officials believe floodwaters shifted a storage tank, causing at least 900 gallons of oil to spill into the Missouri River, does not appear to be significant, state health department officials said Friday.
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Barbour speaks at House hearing on oil spill
A year after the Gulf oil spill, House lawmakers are engaging in partisan debate over the Obama administration’s response to one of the nation’s worst environmental and economic disasters.
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NWT town cut off from natural gas supply die to oil spill in Alberta
NORMAN WELLS, N.W.T. – An energy company says it’s going to help a town in the Northwest Territories that’s running out of heating fuel due to an oil spill last week in Alberta.
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Pennsylvania Fracking Spill Investigated By State Officials, EPA
CANTON, Pa. — Workers replaced a damaged portion of a natural gas well Monday night that had spilled thousands of gallons of chemical-laced water into fields and a stream last week, the well’s owner said, and officials said early tests show the spill had little effect on the environment but an investigation is continuing.
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Gulf disaster renews debate over Arctic oil spill
WASHINGTON (AP) – A year after the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, some experts are pondering the next doomsday scenario – a massive oil well blowout in the icy waters off Alaska’s northern coast.
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Gulf spill anniversary spotlights difficulty responding to oil accident off Alaska coast
WASHINGTON – A year after the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, some experts are pondering the next doomsday scenario — a massive oil well blowout in the icy waters off Alaska’s northern coast.
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Study of spill career’s work for UGA expert
A year after an explosion on a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, scientists still are trying to understand its scope – and wondering how much we’ve learned from it.
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Crews Contain Spill After Train Derails in Wash.
SEATTLE — A railroad spokesman said Sunday it might take three weeks to remove all debris from the site where a freight train derailed and sideswiped another on the banks of Puget Sound, spilling a small amount of a hazardous chemical.
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Ottawa unprepared for major oil spill: audit
The federal government isn’t ready to handle a major oil spill in Canada’s waters, even though the coast guard hears of a spill a day on average, the country’s environmental auditor says.
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Commercial fumigant spill evacuates homes in Virginia
DANVILLE — About two dozen homes were evacuated and three firefighters taken to the hospital Tuesday after several containers of a commercial fumigant fell from a truck.
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