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January 9, 2012

Alert – chemical spill

Hazmat team called to check odor at hotel
Indianapolis Star
The Indianapolis Fire Department’s Hazardous Materials Team was dispatched to a Far-Southside hotel to investigate a possible chemical spill Saturday after two hotel occupants complained of difficulty breathing. One person was transported to Community …
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Taking a closer look
Republican Eagle
A Prairie Island nuclear plant crew is working to clean up the chemical spill of more than 500 gallons of sodium hypochlorite that occurred seven hours earlier. Operators at the nuclear plant officially terminate the alert that was declared at 3:53 am …
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PHOTO: Emergency Operations Center
Republican Eagle
Pat Thompson in the Emergency Operations Center early Thursday after being alerted of a chemical spill at Prairie Island nuclear plant. In the background are Red Wing Sgt. Jerry Rosenow and Police Chief Tim Sletten. Red Wing Fire Chief Tom Schneider …
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Republican Eagle

Three freight trains collide in US
Deccan Chronicle
The three freight trains crashed on Friday afternoon in Indiana’s Porter county, the Chicago Tribune quoted the county’s spokesperson as saying, and adding that the accident involved a collision, derailment, fire and chemical spill. …
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GRACE gives health checks to residents in Midland Valley
Aiken Standard
"This area has had such a hard time since the train wreck and chemical spill." For information about GRACE’s services, call the Study Center at 663-5004. Suzanne Stone is a general assignment reporter at the Aiken Standard. …
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Canadian oil pipeline will benefit China
WatertownDailyTimes.com
America has all kinds of water, sewer, gas and petro- chemical lines traveling all over the USA with different pipe pressures. It’s like comparing apples with oranges, grapes and pineapples — all fruits, but different in how they are processed. …
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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

chemical spill

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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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

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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. […]