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February 21, 2012

Highway cleared after truck crash

Highway cleared after truck crash
Port Macquarie News
Authorities first rushed to the scene after reports a tanker had overturned and split, threatening to leak chemicals into a nearby drainway at Lake Innes. But the load was, in fact, raw sugar. Emergency services remained at the scene cleaning up the …
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February 21, 2012

Inquiry into cheese factory oil leak

River Dove brook: Inquiry into cheese factory oil leak
BBC News
A clean-up operation has started after oil leaked from a disused cheese factory into a brook which feeds the River Dove. The Environment Agency has installed absorbent pads in the brook in Hartington, Derbyshire, and has begun an investigation into the …
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February 14, 2012

Alert – oil spill

Exclusive audio recordings from Cosco Busan oil spill
KGO-TV
He has never spoken in public about the oil spill, but now, you’ll hear his words as it happened. The fog was very thick that November morning. The Cosco Busan’s voyage data recorder captured bar pilot John Cota giving orders to the ship’s Chinese crew …
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KGO-TV

Will Clean Energy Stain Fossil Fuels?
energybiz
For all the clamor over the collapse over solar firm Solyndra, his political opponents are still stained from high oil prices and the BP oil spill. The Obama administration is now emboldened: An independent review team headed by a former official in …
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No Free Lunch in Our Energy Options
Consumer Energy Report
Sometimes the costs are obvious, as when an oil spill occurs or a nuclear accident happens. Other times, the costs are not so obvious, but the trade-offs are always there. BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah solar power project will soon be a humming city …
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Oil solution spilled onto Agawam road
WWLP 22News
(WWLP) – A West Springfield-based company has been cited after state police say one of its tanker trucks spilled about 90 gallons of an oil-water solution near the Agawam Rotary Monday morning. State Police Sgt. Alan Joubert told 22News that about the …
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February 13, 2012

Acid Leaks

News

2 new results for acid leak

Nitric acid released from Orica plant
Sydney Morning Herald
Nitric acid has leaked out of Orica’s plant near Newcastle, but the chemical giant says it poses no risk to the community or the environment. Orica said there was a “minor release” of between three and five litres of nitric acid at its Nitric Acid 3 …
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Newcrest accused of river leak in Fiji
ABC Online
A leading Australian environmental engineer says photos of pollution from Newcrest’s Namosi gold and copper exploration site, in Fiji, suggest heavy metals and sulphuric acid have been released into the environment. The photos, taken by concerned …
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February 12, 2012

Alert – chemical spill

Local YMCA evacuated due to chemical spill
WLFI.com
Fire officials said the cause of the potentially lethal leak was escaping chlorine vapors caused by an incorrect mixture of pool chemicals. "When we got in to the building it was above ten to the point where in the room where it was spilled which is …
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Chemical spill at Bath Road centre
Slough and Windsor Observer
FIREFIGHTERS were called to contain a chemical after a spillage at Lonza Biologics this morning with a person rushed to hospital after breathing in fumes. Two crews from Slough and a specialist unit from Whitley Wood, in Reading, went to the Bath Road …
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Most Drums Tested So Far in Leroy Not Hazardous
WGRZ-TV
LEWISTON, NY – Some encouraging news for Leroy residents concerned about chemical contamination from a decades old chemical spill. The EPA said Friday only one of 80 drums tested so far from the Lehigh Valley Railroad Derailment Superfund site was …
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100 gallons of chemicals spilled at treatment plant in NY
Water Technology Online
OSSINING, NY — Around 100 gallons of chemicals were spilled from a delivery truck in Ossining, NY at the village’s water treatment plant, according to the Lower Hudson Valley News. Police said the chemical is not considered to be dangerous but could …
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Today OnEarth: Unhealthy Chemicals, Drilling Debate, Who’s Pro-Life?
OnEarth Magazine (blog)
By The Editors Safety slowdown: In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency sent the White House a list of widely used chemicals it wanted to flag as “chemicals of concern” because they may cause human health risks. (Industry, of course, opposed the …
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Task force proposals would deal with changes in Arctic waters
Petroleum News
There also needs to be long-term monitoring of chemical, physical and biological parameters for the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, the report says. From the perspective of offshore oil and gas development, the report says that during field hearings in …
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Fuel spill at petrol station
Bracknell News
Firefighters from Bracknell were called to the petrol station at Sainsbury’s in Bagshot Road, Birch Hill, at 7.25am today (Friday), when five to 10 litres of fuel was spilt. They used an absorbent chemical to clear it up. Sainsbury’s said a leak from a …
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Subsistence advisory council meeting next Thursday
The Arctic Sounder
This development is in response to increasing Arctic ship traffic and proposed offshore drilling, which has heightened the risk of oil and chemical spills. The effort to provide an accurate mapping system for major emergency use in a remote and unique …
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Bowcock: Test results indicate TCE plume has not migrated toward school
The Batavian
The samples were taken from the wells of private residences, two to the south of the massive TCE spill in 1970 and one to the west. That would indicate that the TCE (used for degreasing metal parts) plume from the Lehigh Valley train derailment, …
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Get help, NOW!
Winnipeg Free Press
Otherwise, first stop is a physician where you spill your guts. That doctor will probably put you on medication and try to get you in, as quickly as possible to see a psychiatrist for full evaluation. Once you get on the proper meds for your chemical …
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MXA’S SATURDAY NEWS ROUND-UP: THIS IS MOTOCROSS… ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Motocross Action Magazine
The helmet’s shell is rounded instead of ridged, which, along with the rounded (instead of pointed) chinbar, amplify Arai’s belief that rounder, smoother surfaces have less chance of digging in and twisting in a spill than those with “exaggerated …
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Senators call for aiding the Syrian opposition
Foreign Policy (blog)
The longer the Assad regime continues its attacks on the Syrian people and stands in the way of a peaceful transition, the greater the concern that instability will escalate and spill over throughout the region."
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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
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New Thames Tunnel consultation set to launch
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Negative energy price spikes can be halved, says Davey
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CRC 'stealth tax' damaging attempts to cut carbon
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Delay to Solar tariff cut is confirmed
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