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February 21, 2012

70 shut for several hours following accident, diesel spill

EB I-70 shut for several hours following accident, diesel spill
KKCO-TV
Troopers responded to 16 accidents throughout the day due to bad weather conditions. CSP says between 50 and 70 gallons of diesel were spilled onto the ground. None of the fuel seeped into the river. CPS’s HAZMAT unit was called in for cleanup.
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February 21, 2012

diesel spill led to fatal road accident

Lorry’s diesel spill led to fatal road accident
Belfast Newsletter
A police sergeant gave evidence that the PSNI had received four separate reports of a lorry leaking fuel in the area prior to the collision, and that the source of the spillage was a Scania lorry owned by Loane Transport of Kesh.
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January 14, 2012

Alert – fuel spill

State Patrol honors men for efforts at fuel spill
The Durango Herald
16 when a truck carrying 4000 gallons of gasoline crashed on US Highway 550 south of Durango, killing the driver and spilling fuel. The Crossfire employees, who saw the accident, realized the gasoline posed a threat to the Animas River. …
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Morning Crash and Fuel Spill Snarls Traffic
WLTX.com
Newberry County, SC (WLTX)– Commuters on 26 West can expect delays after a Friday morning crash where one truck overturned, and a fuel spill. Emergency crews are attempting to clean up the scene at the 68 mile marker of 26 West after a truck …
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Oil company has made amends for Gulf oil spill
Washington Times
Conservationists such as myself who also recognize that big business, including big oil, is what fuels our economy, have had our radar finely tuned to the efforts and progress of healing the Gulf’s environment and economy since the spill. …
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Washington Times

Flatbed Truck, 2 Tractors Wreck on I-26
WLTX.com
The load of metal pipes he was carrying then spilled out from the back. The driver was taken to the hospital in Newberry. Two tractor trailers driving behind the vehicle struck the pipes, causing them to have an accident and rupturing their fuel tanks. …
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WLTX.com

Ruptured Fuel Line Forces Lorain County Residents to Evacuate
Cleveland News – Fox 8
Officials were notified of the problem at approximately 10:45 pm A considerable amount of raw fuel — easily more than 1000 gallons — spewed out of the ground, a WCFD spokesperson said. The fuel was eventually turned off and the spill was contained. …
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Algae fuel finally viable? Energy guru to answer
Examiner.com
“I’ll be touching on some astonishing news on the ongoing BP Oil Spill saga and updating you on some new movements in the Greentech space,” Tickell said. Vertical farming was the focus of Tickell’s show last week when he interviewed Dr. Dickson …
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Across the nation
LubbockOnline.com
… has muscled its way through hundreds of miles of Bering Sea ice several feet thick to deliver fuel to Nome. Now comes the tricky part: getting more than a million gallons of diesel and gasoline to shore through a mile-long hose without a spill. …
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Well Road to remain closed through clean-up
WSFA
A tanker truck overturned spilling 3500 gallons of fuel onto the the roadway. At the time, it was estimated clean-up of the spill would take about a week. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management is overseeing the clean-up and has informed …
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Icebreaker fleet in US lags behind
The Arctic Sounder
The Coast Guard also plays a big role in oil spill response, a high-ranking issue on the North Slope where exploration of new oil leases is expected to start as early as this year. Given the current location of US Coast Guard equipment and facilities, …
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Why Mr. President Deserves Our Trust!
Modern Ghana
This in turn would stimulate growth in those sectors which supplies it with inputs and attendant spill over benefits. Whereas exponents of subsidy removal regime argue that the policy would reinvigorate large-scale enterprises and public enterprises as …
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Modern Ghana

Cargo Ship Sinks Off Coast of New Zealand [PHOTOS]
Medical Daily
Oil spill responders have cleaned up oil on the Mount, the Main Beach and at Leisure Island, the Maritime New Zealand website announced on Monday. While two oiled birds were collected from the main beach there were no birds found on Matakana or Motiti …
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Medical Daily

Dedicate police to Malahat Drive
Goldstream News Gazette
Last April’s fuel spill, caused when a tanker truck driver lost control, kept some people trapped on either side of the highway for 22 hours. At its worst, the highway can be a killer. The twists and cliff faces are unforgiving for anyone unfortunate …
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New Dirt on Climate Change
Miller-McCune.com
(You may recall these “clathrates” — as the methane solids are called — as the stumbling blocks to closing off the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year.) “Destabilizing clathrates would require some initial warming,” said James Zachos, a geologist …
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Miller-McCune.com

Keep Love Alive
Huffington Post (blog)
If you’re constantly negative, that’s going to spill over into every aspect of your life. And if you’re thinking about his flaws or any flaws in the relationship, chances are that your man will move away from you; men are especially intuitive in this …
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Fatal fire at Glenalmond farm
Perthshire Advertiser
Residents living within a 200m radius of the incident were temporarily displaced after a clear-up operation was put in place because of a fuel spill in the collision. Sepa and the emergency services closed the road while the work was carried out. …
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One injured in tractor-trailer accident
Sentinel and Enterprise
According to Fitchburg Deputy Fire Chief Brian Belliveau, 20 to 30 gallons of fuel oil spilled on the roadway, and cleanup crews, along with the DEP, were working to contain and clean the spill Thursday night.
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Consider Prince Rupert route
Edmonton Journal
A tanker spill in the Douglas Channel would be catastrophic for the many salmon streams, shellfish and other aquatic life that abounds in this area and we cannot afford the risk of a Canadian Exxon Valdez. It was just a few short years ago that the …
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48 Hours: Las Palmas
The Independent
Alternatively, head for the pedestrianised streets of Vegueta, which feature restaurants so popular that they spill out on the pavements. To best sample enyesques, Gran Canaria’s version of tapas, head to La Buena Vida (13) at Mendizábal 24 (00 34 928 …
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Kashmir Bruised But Unbowed As Cold Busts Charts
Kashmir Observer
According to Sonam Lotus, the director of the Srinagar-based regional meteorological centre, the snowfall would be widespread over the Kashmir valley, spill over to the mountain regions of Doda, Badarwah and Kishtwar in the Jammu region, and lash many …
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January 9, 2012

Train Derailed in Latvia

Belarusian Train Derailed in Latvia
Telegraf.by
The accident resulted in oil spillage. There were no injuries. In order to prevent more oil spills, blockage was established. The total area of blockage is 4 thousand square meters. According to the rescuers, the leak is localized and does not cause …
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Telegraf.by

December 31, 2011

Always Put The Paint In the Boot…….

Note to self: Always put the paint in the boot!!!

The people in the blue car had a 25-litre (5 gallon) bucket of paint on the
back seat when they had the accident.

The ambulance driver wouldn’t let the female paramedic out of the ambulance
Because she couldn’t stop laughing — he said it wasn’t professional.

He treated the sad looking driver – apparently, he was overcome with emulsion.

December 29, 2011

Fuel Spill News

Fire Blotter: Firefighters Clean Up Fuel Spill
Patch.com
Firefighters also responded to a fuel spill at a car accident. By Akiko Oda On Dec. 14, firefighters responded to a fuel spill. They arrived to find a vehicle accident with one car on its roof, leaking fluids. There was significant damage to the …
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Washington County crews on scene of gas spill
WNYT
WASHINGTON COUNTY – Crews in Hudson Falls are on the scene of a fuel spill at the Cumberland Farms on Main Street. It started when a car hit one of the gas pumps. We’re told more than 100 gallons of fuel leaked, flowing into the fuel system. …
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WNYT

Oil is more toxic than previously thought, study finds
Los Angeles Times
The study, spearheaded by the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in collaboration with NOAA, looked into the aftermath of the 2007 Cusco Busan spill, when that tanker hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled 54000 gallons of bunker fuel into …
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Los Angeles Times

Fears Fuel Rise in Oil Prices
AdvisorOne
Also driving worries, in addition to the Nigerian oil spill and production shutdown coupled with bomb attacks on Christmas, as previously reported by AdvisorOne.com, were outbreaks of violence in Iraq, where on Monday a suicide car bomber killed seven …
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AdvisorOne

Small plane crashes in Concord, injuring 2
San Francisco Examiner
There was no fuel spill or fire as a result of the fire, and the plane did not appear to hit any structures or vehicles, Kirby said. The crash victims were transported via ambulance to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek to be treated for their …
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San Francisco Examiner

Cessna makes emergency landing in Sugar Land
Houston Chronicle (blog)
A twin-engine Cessna made an emergency landing Tuesday afternoon at the Sugar Land Airport without its landing gear down, KTRK-TV reports on its website. No one was injured, but the runway was closed as crews try to clear a fuel spill from the landing. …
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Houston Chronicle (blog)

Weapons-grade uranium shipments quietly heading south
Globe and Mail
The two biggest threats posed by the transport of the material are the catastrophe that could result from an accident or spill, and the interest that terrorist organizations may have in stealing it for use in weapons of mass destruction. …
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Globe and Mail

David Cameron could regret his anti-alcohol crusade
Telegraph.co.uk
But most problem drinkers will not be deterred by putting a few pennies on a can of lager – while those lairy souls who spill out on to the streets of our town centres of a Friday or Saturday evening have generally been paying full price for the …
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Telegraph.co.uk

Groundwater recovery: the silver lining has a cloud
Albuquerque Journal (subscription) (blog)
As the pumping is reduced and groundwater levels rise, the water is submerging the soil layer beneath southeast Albuquerque that has been contaminated by an old Kirtland Air Force Base jet fuel spill. It’s a no-win situation. Reduced pumping means the …
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UK Environmental News

Government to appeal to Supreme Court over FITs
Decc is set to submit an appeal to the Supreme Court later today (February 21) opposing a ruling which found its proposed plans to cut Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) subsides were unlawful. […]
Santander, BBVA and APG join Carbon Disclosure Project call
European financial giants Banco Santander, BBVA and APG have become the latest signatories to join the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) call for cost-effective greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. […]
Fleet project set to slash refuse truck costs for councils
London's waste authorities could shave millions off their refuse truck bills through greater collaboration and standardisation of their fleet management strategies. […]
Northern Ireland aims to be world leader in carbon reduction
Northern Ireland's Environment Minister Alex Attwood has called on the country to step up to the challenge of becoming a world leader in carbon reduction. […]
Retailers must attack food waste on several fronts to be effective
Supermarkets need to take a multi-pronged approach to tackling food waste according to the results of an exclusive edie poll. […]
Wave Hub set to host offshore floating wind turbines
The world's largest wave energy test site Wave Hub could act as a platform for offshore floating wind turbines under plans announced today (February 21) by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). […]
EA extends free flood warning service
The Environment Agency (EA) has unveiled plans to extend its free flood warning service to businesses and households at risk of groundwater flooding in Suffolk. […]
Spelman urges UK to 'save water' as South East is declared in drought
The UK must "find a way to save water" in order to ease the strain on water supplies and reduce the effects of drought, according to environment secretary Caroline Spelman. […]
ExxonMobil lands £2.8m fine for failing to report CO2
Oil giant ExxonMobil has been slapped with a fine of £2.8m for failing to report carbon dioxide emissions of 33,000 tonnes from its chemical plant in Fife, Scotland. […]
Former edie award winners make euro grade
The RSA Environment Awards Forum has unveiled the 12 UK entrants to be entered into the European Business Awards for the Environment (EBAE), with former edie award winners M&S and the Olympic Delivery Authority making the grade. […]