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Post by clone on Sept 2, 2011 8:19:37 GMT -8
Toxicologist: Oil spill far more toxic than admitted Illnesses are common to all spills, she says 09.01.11 | 9:41 am Nicholas Forte has spent the last year with an array of health issues. Headaches. Migraines. Nausea. Breathing problems so severe they would land him in the hospital. “We have no idea what it is,” the 22-year-old Battle Creek resident told Michigan Messenger. “Then it escalated to seizures.” And while the seizures landed him in the hospital — at one point stopping his heart and his breathing — doctors are at a loss to understand why. Tests indicate none of the expected patterns for epilepsy. Finding out why the formerly healthy young man had suddenly fallen ill drove him and his family to listen to Riki Ott, an environmental toxicologist who has been tracking the health impacts of oil spills on human beings since her home was impacted by the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. Ott was in Battle Creek Wednesday night at the invitation of local activists. And when Forte asked Ott about his symptoms, she nodded an affirmative. “We see that in 16-year olds in the Gulf,” she said. And Forte was not the only person she may have given much needed answers to. Nearly 50 people gathered to talk about headaches, nausea, burning eyes, memory loss and rashes. There were young and old, African-Americans and whites, rural residents and city dwellers, all with one thing in common — they live by the Kalamazoo River and were exposed to last year’s Enbridge Energy Partners Lakehead Pipeline 6B. michiganmessenger.com/52176/toxicologist-oil-spill-far-more-toxic-than-admitted
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Post by clone on Sept 19, 2011 13:12:01 GMT -8
Imperial Oil fined for chemical dump First posted: Saturday, September 17, 2011 01:30 AM EDT CALGARY - Dumping chemicals into fish-bearing waters in the Northwest Territories has landed Imperial Oil Resources a $185,000 fine. The Calgary-based oil giant pleaded guilty to federal charges and violating conditions of its water licence, admitting that between Oct. 4 and Nov. 2, 2009, it released NALCO 7390, a corrosion inhibitor, into a settling pond connected to the Mackenzie River. www.torontosun.com/2011/09/17/imperial-oil-fined-for-chemical-dump
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Post by clone on Oct 8, 2011 19:35:27 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Oct 10, 2011 19:54:00 GMT -8
Calgary-based Talisman Energy North Sea rigs face safety woes, scrutiny Thirty-year-old offshore platforms undergoing upgrades October 7, 2011 CALGARY — Talisman Energy said Thursday it is appealing a ruling from a U.K. regulator about overcrowded facilities on one of its North Sea oil platforms and suspended production from the Tartan rig for the fourth quarter to make changes to its operations centre. The Calgary-based company said the decision to shut down the 31-year-old Tartan rig was focused on improvements to the control room and are not related to issues that emerged on the company’s Claymore rig in the second quarter which caused five gas and condensate spills. www.vancouversun.com/business/Calgary+based+Talisman+Energy+North+rigs+face+safety+woes+scrutiny/5518762/story.html
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Post by clone on Oct 14, 2011 13:08:11 GMT -8
Stricken ship Rena’s affect on tribal leader 14 October 2011 The situation around stricken cargo ship Rena is getting worse as it continues to leak oil and lose containers off the Tauranga coast. Maritime New Zealand have said more than 350 tons of oil have been spilled into the ocean. Tribal elder of Motiti Island, Graham Hoete holds back tears as he looks at the beach he used to play on and the sea he used to swim in since the age of 8, now covered in oil, scattered timber and thousands of plastic bottles. bikyamasr.com/45709/stricken-ship-rena%E2%80%99s-affect-on-tribal-leader/
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Post by Waihau Bay on Oct 19, 2011 15:14:52 GMT -8
Further Rena oil spread feared Last updated 10:50 20/10/2011 OIL, DEBRIS HITS EAST CAPE Oil soaked container debris yesterday washed up as far away as the East Coast, and more was expected to come ashore over the coming days, Niblock said... Jan Sanford from Oceanside Apartments in Waihau Bay said her establishment was now empty when it had been fully booked for Labour Weekend. "I'm totally empty now, and I'm never empty for Labour Weekend," she said. www.stuff.co.nz/environment/rena-crisis/5817808/Further-Rena-oil-spread-feared
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Post by clone on Nov 1, 2011 5:48:11 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Nov 22, 2011 15:02:50 GMT -8
Brazilian police probe Chevron oil spill www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGgvGwoBWkMleaking exploratory well, owned by Chevron and run by Transocean Chevron to Face Steep Fines for Brazilian Oil Spill November 22, 2011 RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–U.S. oil major Chevron Corp. (CVX) faces heavy fines in Brazil after the company accepted responsibility for an oil spill at an offshore field, including the possible loss of a key license that allows Chevron to operate in deep waters that potentially hold billions of barrels of crude, government officials told reporters late Monday. Brazil’s leading environmental regulator, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, imposed late Monday a 50 million Brazilian reais ($28 million) fine for environmental damages after a drilling incident caused between 2,400 barrels and 3,000 barrels of oil to leak into the Atlantic Ocean near Chevron’s Frade field, according to company and government estimates. But the penalties could rise dramatically as Chevron confronts a political backlash over the spill, including charges that the company withheld information from regulators. Rio de Janeiro state officials could levy fines of about BRL100 million, while Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, announced two notices of infraction for Chevron that could each carry fines of BRL50 million. gcaptain.com/chevron-face-steep-fines-brazilian?34125
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Post by clone on Nov 22, 2011 15:11:50 GMT -8
Brazil Official: Chevron Offshore Oil Leak Is 'Much Bigger' Than The Company Says November 18, 2011 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An oil spill off Brazil's coast could be "much bigger" than earlier estimated, the Rio de Janeiro state environment minister said Friday, and Federal Police said that oil company Chevron drilled deeper than allowed. Minister Carlos Minc didn't say how much oil has leaked from the site of a well owned by Chevron. The leak began Nov. 8 and some Brazilian officials say has not yet been contained. The exact cause of the leak is not yet known, but a spokesman for Brazil's Federal Police, which has opened an investigation into the spill, said that Chevron "drilled about 500 meters (1,640 feet) farther than they were licensed to do." The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to discuss the matter. Minc is calling for more transparency on the part of Chevron. "We can't trivialize this," he told the Globo TV network. "It's really serious and we don't yet know all the consequences. This incident has got to be much bigger than has been announced." The minister went on to say the government would soon release satellite images showing that the five-mile (eight-kilometer) oil slick is about 3 feet (1 meter) deep, rather than just on the surface, which Minc said would indicate that the environmental damage "is certainly bigger" than thought until now. He added that marine life in the area of the spill, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) northeast of Rio de Janeiro in the Atlantic ocean, was sure to be affected, and that whales are migrating from north to south in that area at this time. Chevron said the oil spill was between 400 and 650 barrels of oil, but that the company had contained the leak. The company said "current estimates place the volume of the oil sheen on the ocean surface to be less than 65 barrels." The company has 18 ships working on a rotating basis to collect oil off the surface and monitor the slick. The drilling contractor for the well is Transocean — the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that oil company BP was leasing at the time of last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the largest in U.S. history. Ana Carolina Oliveira, a spokeswoman for Brazil's oil regulator, the National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, has said an estimated 1,000 barrels had leaked to the surface and that it was still unclear if the leak was contained. articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-18/news/30413981_1_gulf-of-mexico-oil-deepwater-horizon-rig-oil-spill
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Post by clone on Dec 23, 2011 12:43:43 GMT -8
Shell Oil Messes Off Two Coasts Thu Dec. 22, 2011 11:20 AM PST Shell has admitted to spilling up to 40,000 barrels (1.4 million gallons) of crude oil into the ocean about 75 miles (120 km) off Nigeria on Wednesday. The spill occurred while it was transferring oil from a floating oil platform to a tanker. Satellite pictures captured by independent monitors Skytruth (more here) show a 356-square-mile (923-square-km) slick approaching the oil-battered coast of the Niger Delta. All production from the Bonga field—normally about 200,000 barrels (7.2 million gallons) a day—has been suspended in the wake of the spill. The Guardian reports on skepticism of Shell's estimates, based on its poor record in the region: leading Nigerian human rights group said Shell's figures about the quantity of oil spilled or the clean-up could not be relied on. "Shell says 40,000 barrels were spilled and production was shut but we do not trust them because past incidents show that the company consistently under-reports the amounts and impacts of its carelessness," said Nnimmo Bassey, head of Environmental Rights Action, based in Lagos. The spill, one of the worst off the coast of Nigeria in 10 years, is particularly embarrassing for Shell, coming only four months after a major UN study said it could take Shell and other oil companies 30 years and $1bn to clean spills in Ogoniland, one small part of the oil-rich delta. The company also admitted responsibility in August for two major spills in the Bodo region of the delta that took place in 2008, but has yet to pay compensation.Shell also admitted to a spill in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday of some 13,400 barrels of drilling mud mixed with synthetic oil from the Deepwater Nautilus—a sister rig to the Deepwater Horizon. The spill occurred at the Appomattox discovery, just 26 miles southeast of last year's disastrous spill. Shell plans five new exploratory wells at Appomattox, hoping to recover more than 250 million barrels of oil... though the Houston Chronicle reports it could be weeks before the company can resume drilling in the hotly-disputed site: The Appomattox project is at the heart of a high-stakes dispute between environmentalists and the federal government over offshore drilling... In separate cases that have since been consolidated, conservationists are arguing that the government acted prematurely in green-lighting the plan without first finishing an environmental study of the Gulf... The cases present a major test of the federal government's power to swiftly review and approve deep-water exploration plans. motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/12/huge-shell-oil-spill-nigeria
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Post by lets go dissipated disperals on Dec 27, 2011 2:02:22 GMT -8
Bonga oil spill: 50% oil dissipated On December 27, 2011 · In Energy | 12:20 am Up to 50 percent of the leaked oil from the deepwater Bonga Floating Production Storge and Offloading Vessel, FPSO, has already dissipated due to natural dispersion and evaporation, according to the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo. Shell’s country chair in Nigeria, Mr. Mutiu Sunmonu, who once again apologised for the incident, said: “We have carried out helicopter flights over the affected area. To accelerate the clean-up at sea, we are deploying vessels with dispersants to break up the oil sheen at sea. We are mobilising airplanes that will support the vessels in this operation..." www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/bonga-oil-spill-50-oil-dissipated/
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Post by clone on Dec 29, 2011 18:24:57 GMT -8
New oil leak found in Brazil: officials December 18, 2011 A handout picture released in November by the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum shows supply boats cleaning an oil spill around a Chevron platform operating in the Frade oil field in the Atlantic Ocean 120 km offshore Campos, northern state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazil slapped a $28 million fine on US energy giant Chevron Monday for an oil spill.Brazil's environmental authorities said they have discovered a 10,000 liter leak at an oil platform in the pristine Bay of Ilha Grande, the second such mishap to threaten this country's shorelines in recent weeks. Carlos Minc, Environment Secretary in Rio de Janeiro state, said the accident threatens an area considered an ecological treasure with a rich biodiversity. It occurred at an oil rig run by Modec, a company active in the offshore oil and gas industry around the globe. www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-oil-leak-brazil.html
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Post by GoM on Dec 29, 2011 20:26:57 GMT -8
13,000 Gallons? Add it to the Rest... Blog - BPs Oil Drilling Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:08 So the spills continue. Here are some of our recent shots of a leak at a Taylor Energy well, which has been leaking since 2004's HURRICANE IVAN, as well as a couple other spills. All these were found on our most recent monitoring flight with our partner Southwings. Also just in the news was a 13,000 gallon release of oil and drilling fluid by a Transocean operated rig working for Shell. The Coast Guard knows about all these releases. Will they hold anyone accountable? Probably not. And into this mess, wades Mississippi's outgoing Governor, Haley Barbour, who thinks drilling off the Mississippi Coast would be a great idea. Of course, he also said 2010's BP drilling disaster was more a media and image problem for his state as opposed to an actual environmental problem. healthygulf.org/201112221780/blog/bps-oil-drilling-disaster-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/13000-gallons-add-it-to-the-rest
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Post by clone on Jan 11, 2012 19:14:13 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Feb 1, 2012 18:14:45 GMT -8
July 21, 2010 - Oil spill in Dalian, China Five days ago, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for over 15 hours, destroying several structures - the cause of the explosion is under investigation. The damaged pipes released thousands of gallons of oil, which flowed into the nearby harbor and the Yellow Sea. The total amount of oil spilled is still not clear, though China Central Television earlier reported an estimate of 1,500 tons (400,000 gallons), as compared to the estimated 94 - 184 million gallons in the BP oil spill off the Louisiana coast. The oil slick has now grown to at least 430 square kilometers (165 sq mi), forcing beaches and port facilities to close while government workers and local fishermen work to contain and clean up the spill. (29 photos total) Firefighters walk near an oil pipeline blast site in Dalian, Liaoning province, China early on July 17, 2010. Firefighters later extinguished the fire that raged for more than 15 hours after two oil pipelines exploded in the port of Dalian, the Xinhua news agency said. The photo taken on July 18, 2010 shows firemen taking break after extinguishing an oil pipeline blaze at a port in Dalian, China. Dozens of oil-skimming vessels were working to remove a growing slick in the water off the port city following a weekend pipeline explosion and fire.A Greenpeace activist surveys the damage of the oil spill at Dalian's port on July 21, 2010.Workers attempt to rescue a firefighter from drowning in the oil slick during the oil spill clean-up operations at Dalian's Port on July 20, 2010.www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/oil_spill_in_dalian_china.html
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