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February 21, 2012

Tanker overturns, chemical spill

Tanker overturns, chemical spill fears
Port Macquarie News
EMERGENCY services are at the scene of an apparent chemical spill west of Port Macquarie yesterday morning. A tanker apparently rolled over on the new section of the Pacific Highway at Lake Innes shortly before 9am. The tanker split on both sides and …
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February 14, 2012

Alert – chemical leak

Environment officials investigate another chemical leak in Newcastle
ABC Online
Orica is not the only chemical company feeling the heat in Newcastle, with environment officials investigating a leak at another industrial facility. The Environment Protection Authority says the carcinogen Naphthalene escaped from the Koppers …
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Chemical spill occurs at farm
Danville Commercial News
CAYUGA, Ind. — Walker Farms is working with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management regarding a chemical spill that occurred during the weekend. The Vermillion County Sheriff’s Department received a cellular telephone call at 9:55 am …
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Westland High Evacuated; HAZMAT Called To School
NBC4i.com
They wouldn’t let you in to get your kids and it’s frustrating," said Lillian Wallace, a parent. "I really don’t know what is going on. I heard it was a chemical spill. I heard it was a gas leak. I really don’t know," said James Robinson, a parent.
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Chinese Electric Car Pollution More Harmful to Humans Than Gas Cars
U.S. News & World Report
Based on my experience with automotive fuel and fluid spills I find them almost utopian compared to the effects of liquid and chemical leaks from batteries. Few things are as gross as opening a battery powered device that has experienced a battery …
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Union County prepares for the worst
WBTV
Think back to last September, a dangerous ammonia leak shut down the Pilgrim’s Pride poultry processing plant in Marshville. "We weren’t trained," High said." We weren’t equipped to do that." Four months earlier, two people died when a pair of …
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January 8, 2012

Alert – chemical leak

Bleach leak launches alert
Republican Eagle
Within just an hour and a half of being alerted of a chemical spill at Prairie Island nuclear plant on Thursday morning, directors with Goodhue County and the city of Red Wing were hustling to get their Emergency Operations Center up and running. …
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January 6, 2012

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Nuclear Plant Reports Chemical Spill
MyFox Phoenix
(NewsCore) – Minnesota’s emergency operations center says there was a non-radiological chemical spill at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant outside Minneapolis Thursday. State officials did not ask residents in the nearby area of Redwing, …
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Chemical spill closes parts of NW Coastal highway
ABC Online
A truck carrying liquid methanol sustained a leaking valve north of Binnu, in the Shire of Northampton. If methanol touches the skin it can cause poisoning. Nine firefighters are at the scene waiting for a decanting truck to arrive and extract the …
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Crash, chemical spill closes portion of Airport-Pulling
Naples Daily News
By Naples Daily News staff report A chemical spill following a two-vehicle crash closed a portion of Airport Pulling Road South Wednesday afternoon. NAPLES — A chemical spill following a two-vehicle crash closed a portion of Airport Pulling Road South …
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Chemical Spill Causes Concern Near Reservoir
NBC Connecticut
There were no evacuations and no injuries, according to the MDC. Fluoride in its concentrated form in the truck can be corrosive on contact, officials said. The spill posed no threat to the drinking water, according to the MDC.
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Chemical spill forces highway closure
Perth Now
METHANOL: A chemical spill has forced the closure of North West Coastal Highway near Kalbarri. Picture: Stewart Allen Source: PerthNow FESA spokeswoman said a truck carrying the liquid chemical Methanol had spilt the liquid from a leaking valve. …
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Binnu chemical spill closes highway
The West Australian
A section of North West Coastal Highway is expected to be closed for most of the day because of a spill from a methanol tanker. The chemical spill happened north of Binnu and the highway is closed between 9.5km north of the Kalbarri turnoff and the …
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PCG moves to prevent spill
Manila Bulletin
By JOHN CARLO M. CAHINHINAN MANILA, Philippines — Marine environmental experts and personnel from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) are pursuing their effort to prevent a possible chemical spill along the vicinity where a Cambodian-flagged cargo vessel …
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Minor flouride spill resolved
West Hartford News
As personnel were preparing to offload 4500 gallons of fluoride to a storage tank, a leak was spotted. It was described by someone on the scene as a "dribble," according to Kerry Martin, a spokesperson for the MDC. The chemical spill emergency plan was …
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54000 gallons of spilled bunker oil can be enough to devastate a commercial …
Bits Of Science
Thick bunker oil for instance can contain more chemical pollutants than normal crude oil. Moreover local climatic effects can influence the damage as well. Normally a cold Arctic climate is thought to be the worst to have an oil spill, …
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Bits Of Science

Tanker collision triggers small fuel oil spill off coast of Singapore
Washington Post (blog)
The MPA said authorities have contained the spill and chemical dispersants were used to break up patches of oil. The MPA said it is investigating the cause of the collision, which happened about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) south of the main island of …
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BC pipeline foes unmoved by Enbridge oath
Montreal Gazette
… and "cathodic protection" to guard against electro-chemical corrosion. Enbridge’s environmental studies suggest that the impact of a pipeline spill on its Northern Gateway pipelines depends on the amount, location, landscape and time of year. …
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Words on success
Fort Dodge Messenger
In particular, dry flowable chemicals. "We take a liquid chemical and we’ll make a granular product out of it," he said. "Environmentally, it’s a good practice. If you spill a liquid on the ground, it goes into the ground and you’ve got an …
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Bleach Leak at Praire Island Nuclear Plant
Northland’s NewsCenter
By KBJR News 1 A non-radiological spill at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant early Thursday morning prompted emergency response. A non-radiological spill of a chemical adjacent to a vital area prompted Xcel Energy officials to declare an …
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Fixing BP’s Big Fix
Triple Pundit
BP was not only allowed to use the chemical on the water surface but also at the leak’s source on the ocean floor, a practice that had not been tested. Why did BP need that allowance? Because the dispersant reduces the quantity of measurable oil by …
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Triple Pundit

Output Resumes At Bonga Oilfield – Shell
Leadership Newspapers
Some coastal settlements in Akwa Ibom have also reported sighting oil deposits and sediments of oil broken down by chemical dispersants deployed by Shell to contain the spill. To Install this app , enter the address below on your phone . http : /
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Leadership Newspapers

Local Briefs 1/6/12
Leader-Telegram
The operators of Prairie Island nuclear plant near Red Wing, Minn., ended an alert Thursday afternoon following a chemical spill that prompted the Ellsworth and Prescott school districts to start school two hours late. About 500 gallons of chlorine …
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OUT OF GAS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMEMENT IS RUNNING ON EMPTY
Power Engineering Magazine
Only six months earlier the nation witnessed a massive oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, the third largest oil spill in American waters after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills. The imagery of burning rivers and …
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Chlorine Bleach Leak at Red Wing Nuclear Plant
KAALtv.com
(AP) – Officials say a 2-inch break in a pipe leading to a chlorine bleach tank is to blame for a chemical spill at the Prairie Island nuclear plant near Red Wing. They say a plant worker discovered the break, leading to an alert being declared shortly …
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KAALtv.com

Alert lifted for Minn. nuke plant after chem spill
Worthington Daily Globe
The operators of the Prairie Island nuclear plant near Red Wing say they have lifted an alert that followed a chemical spill. About 500 gallons of chlorine bleach spilled from a broken pipe that was discovered shortly before 4 am Thursday. …
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35 pm: Prairie Island Nuclear Plant terminates alert
Hastings Star Gazette
The alert issued by operators at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant as a result of a chemical spill this morning was terminated at 2:08 pm today. Action on Xcel’s relicensing bid will pick up again next month when the public comment period …
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Harbour report announced
Gladstone Observer
"The report acknowledges barramundi appear to be more strongly affected than other fish species, likely due to population stress following the flooding events of last summer which caused 30000 large barramundi to spill over the Awoonga Dam into …
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Hydrocarbon Processing
The API says about 80% of the money will be spent on oil-spill and automotive-emission aspects. Worldwide plastics boom seen continuing. All market signs show 1971 to be a record-breaking year for the US plastics industry. …
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Hydrocarbon Processing

December 31, 2011

chemical spill

Chemical Spill Reported at GE in Fairfield
The Daily Fairfield
A chemical spill at General Electric’s Fairfield headquarters leaked 500 gallons of nonhazardous materials Thursday evening, according to the Fairfield Fire Department. The fluids drained from a broken pipe in the corporation’s utilities area into the …
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Chemical spill under cleanup downtown
SignOnSanDiego.com
SAN DIEGO — A hazardous chemical leaking from a tractor-trailer rig at 10th Avenue and B Street in downtown San Diego Friday morning prompted some road closures and a big cleanup effort. A brown liquid was flowing from a tank inside the truck’s …
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Chemical spill near SeaWorld
KFMB
SAN DIEGO (CBS – A chemical spill near the entrance to SeaWorld forced the closure of a roadway Friday afternoon. It happened on SeaWorld Drive. According to a Chopper 8 report, a truck reportedly spilled a small amount of a pool cleaning chemical …
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Spill 911, Inc. Introduces EcoTech™ Pads and Rolls to Product Selection
PR Web (press release)
When a spill, no matter how small, occurs, quick and efficient cleanup is the proper procedure. If a chemical, oil, or solvent spills, the liquid can migrate across the floor or ground to a drain, where it enters the water supply and soon may …
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400 Gal. Of Concrete Hardener Spills In Downtown
KGTV San Diego
The tanks leaked about 500 gallons of the chemical used to set concrete. It flowed to Ninth Avenue and C Street, where crews were working to contain the spill, Swanson said. City crews were called to bring in sand to soak up the chemical, Swanson said. …
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Bonga spill: Environmentalist calls for complete clean-up
The Nation Newspaper
The environmentalist called for continuous watch and monitor, so that the Bonga spill does not cause more problems. He said: “The spill has been dispersed. The company (SPDC) explained to us that it used dispersant, which is a chemical material, …
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Nitric acid spill reported at Eastman Business Park
Rochester Business Journal
This week Eastman Business Park released its most recent sustainability report, highlighting improvements the industrial complex made in 2010 during its ongoing transition from a chemical to a clean technology facility. Eastman Business Park occupies …
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Green science
Camarillo Acorn
MICHAEL COONS/Acorn Newspapers In the spring of 2010, Joan Hart and Kim Wang watched the evening news in dismay as the BP oil spill blanketed the Gulf of Mexico. The Rio Mesa High School students realized that Gulf Coast residents were struggling to …
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US 52, Schuyler intersection reopens following tanker crash
Journal and Courier
By Mark Felix/Journal & Courier Lafayette police are reopening the intersection of US 52 and Schuyler Avenue this evening following an incident involving an overturned chemical tanker, dispatchers said. Authorites were working to reopen the …
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A Gulf Chorus Fights BP’s PR War
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
What if BP decided to tell the stories of families suffering from debilitating health problems they blame on the crude and chemical dispersants, oil that still mysteriously bubbles up near BP’s Macondo well 40 miles offshore? …
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Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)

Tanker creates bottleneck
Journal and Courier
(By Mark Felix/Journal & Courier) When Kevin Dolick saw a chemical tanker overturn at the intersection of US 52 and Schuyler Avenue Friday afternoon his instincts kicked in. The shift leader at the nearby Village Pantry Marathon immediately ran to the …
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Tide’s title is top story of 2011
Picayune Item
A cleanup of the dead fish and restocking cost the company $250000 and it was fined $100000 for the chemical spill into the river, and authorities by last month said the company was still under a criminal investigation. No. 3: Supervisors at the first …
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Disasters, disease top list of threats to Sweden
The Local.se
MSB also highlights to potential threat to Sweden’s food and water supply that could come due to a chemical spill in lakes such as Vänern, Vättern and Mälaren. “These are threats that could have very serious consequences. They can lead to situations …
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UK Environmental News

Scottish airport and university slash emissions
A greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction scheme has seen Edinburgh Airport and Edinburgh Napier University become the first organisations to pass the standard. […]
Consumers sitting on e-waste cash mountain
British households are individually throwing away £800 worth of electrical appliances every year that could be reused or recycled according to new research. […]
New Thames Tunnel consultation set to launch
Thames Water has unveiled plans to launch an additional four-week consultation round on amendments to its proposed Thames Tunnel project. […]
O2 unveils carbon footprint of its services
Telecoms giant O2 has joined forces with the Carbon Trust to measure the carbon footprint of its services - becoming, it has claimed, the first network operator to gain certification. […]
Nestlé shows real bottle in lightweight packaging
Nestlé Waters claims to have developed the UK's lightest bottled water product with the opening of its new £35m production factory in Buxton last week. […]
Scotland records accelerated fall in trade waste
Commercial waste arisings are falling at a faster rate than household waste across Scotland according to official figures released yesterday (May 17). […]
Negative energy price spikes can be halved, says Davey
Climate change polices could slash volatility in global oil, gas and coal prices by 50% by 2050, energy secretary Ed Davey has claimed. […]
CRC 'stealth tax' damaging attempts to cut carbon
New research being presented to Parliament today (May 17) indicates that attempts to encourage some of the UK's largest organisations to cut carbon have been hit by a change in government policy. […]
Delay to Solar tariff cut is confirmed
DECC confirmed today that the next round of cuts to the Feed-in Tariff for solar PV has been 'delayed'. […]
Business engagement will drive economy, says Ofwat
Managing business customer expectations and creating a sustainable water supply legacy needs to be the challenge water companies address, according to Thames Water and Ofwat. […]