900 gallons of oil spill into Missouri River in ND

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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