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Incentives to settle spill case loom large
Houston Chronicle
By Emily Pickrell Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster floats on the surface in June 2010 in Louisiana’s Bay Jimmy. Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP2010 A legal brawl that began with the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and Gulf of Mexico oil spill …
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US urges openness at Gulf oil spill trial
Pensacola News Journal
AP NEW ORLEANS — The federal government’s lead lawyer in an upcoming trial over fault in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill urged judges on Friday to make public sensitive business documents and testimony. Mike Underhill, a US Justice Department lawyer …
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Petrobras Output Growth Slowest in 4 Years as BP Spills Prompts Shutdowns
Bloomberg
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4), Brazil’s state-controlled oil producer, said output growth slowed to the least since 2007 after regulators stepped up safety inspections in response to BP Plc.’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Petrobras lost 12 million …
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Oil spill cleanup and wildlife assistance under way at Auburn pond
Access Washington
AUBURN – The Washington departments of Ecology (Ecology) and Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and a property owner are cleaning up an oil spill at a privately owned stormwater detention pond in Auburn. State officials found that 10 to 12 ducks that frequent …
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Coleman: Oil spill on Interstate 80 ‘was a mess’
Morris Daily Herald
At least 200 gallons of the oil spilled onto the roadway’s shoulder and ran down the embankment into the ditch next to the highway, Coleman said. The oil was not classified as a hazardous material. Agencies were able to successfully contain the spill.
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No answers yet on Kinder Morgan oil spill
Aldergrove Star
Investigating agencies say they’re not sure what information will be released about the oil spill at the Kinder Morgan facility on Sumas Mountain on Jan. 24. By Vikki Hopes – Abbotsford News It could take several months for the investigation to be …
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Nigeria: Chevron oil spill fouls coastal communities
World War 4 Report
9 it will speed up the release of money to help hundreds of thousands of villagers affected by a Chevron off-shore oil spill in January. The affected areas are Kolo Ama I and II, Akasa, Sanagana, Fish Town, Fropa, Ekeni, Ezetu and Lobia—all in Bayelsa …
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Taylor Oil Spill
Business Insider
Today SkyTruth released our Site 23051 Cumulative Spill Report showing our estimation of the total cumulative amount of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico at the site of Taylor Energy’s ongoing oil spill that began in 2004.
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Union Pacific to pay $1.5M settlement in oil spills
Northern Colorado Business Report
Union Pacific Railroad Co. will pay $1.5 million to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and Oil Pollution Act. The settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency resolves a Clean Water Act enforcement action against Union Pacific that …
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Oil spill cleanup and wildlife assistance under way at Auburn pond
Auburn Reporter
The Washington departments of Ecology and Fish and Wildlife and a property owner are cleaning up an oil spill at a privately owned stormwater detention pond in Auburn. State officials found that 10 to 12 ducks that frequent the pond at 1232 A Street …
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Chevron’s $3M to boost post-spill water projects
Salt Lake Tribune
By derek p. jensen More than a year after Chevron’s second oil spill from the same pipeline fouled Salt Lake City waterways, $3 million in penalty money is about to be disbursed by the oil giant. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality has …
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Ian Somerhalder Started Foundation After BP Oil Spill
Ecorazzi
The 2010 BP oil spill. He told the Weekender, “I’ve always been passionate about the environment and its creatures. But what really tipped the scales for me was the oil spill in the Gulf. The unimaginable devastation to my own backyard had a massive …
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Cops: Copper thieves cause oil spill
Ct Post
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and a Hazmat team were sent to the scene to cleanup the spill at 90 Bagburn Hill Road. The oil got into a storm drain to the brook, which runs into Lake Zoar. The DEEP said the spill was contained …
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Thumb down: Conference underscores U.S. vulnerabilities if oil spill occurs …
TCPalm
By Editorial Board So says a headline on an Associated Press story the other day, summarizing comments at a congressional subcommittee hearing near Miami Beach. The issue at hand was what to do in the event of an accident at the Spanish drilling site …
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Judge Excludes Testimony From Gulf Oil Spill Trial
WAPT Jackson
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ruled out testimony about a deadly 2005 explosion at a BP PLC refinery in Texas from the first phase of a trial over the oil giant’s liability for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Can Gasoline Be Held to a Fair Trade Standard?
Minyanville.com
By Davis MacMillan February 10, 2012 12:14 PM Remember how, after spending way too long mishandling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP (BP) made everything better by sponsoring Gulf Shore tourism commercials? The $20 billion trust fund probably helped …
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Judge okays exclusion of damaging emails from BP oil spill trial
Boing Boing
By Xeni Jardin at 11:03 am Friday, Feb 10 A judge has granted requests from defendants in the BP oil disaster case to exclude various emails from trial. The details of the emails are an interesting read. For instance: At Halliburton’s request, …
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NIGERIA: Bayelsa State to speed up aid for oil-spill victims
Reuters AlertNet
Nigeria’s Bayelsa State government said yesterday it would speed up the release of money over the next two weeks to help hundreds of thousands of villagers affected by a Chevron off-shore oil spill in January. IMPORTANT: Your comment will not appear …
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Saanich homeowner won’t be charged but faces extensive bill for stream cleanup
Vancouver Sun
A Saanich homeowner won’t be charged in connection with an oil-spill into a salmon-spawning urban watershed. But under a “polluter pay” policy he is likely to spend tens of thousands of dollars to cover remediation costs, consulting fees, …
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Kinder Morgan, NEB at Abbotsford community meeting
Abbotsford Times
24 oil spill at the Kinder Morgan Sumas terminal site at the Upper Sumas Mountain Road. The company reported that 110000 litres of crude oil escaped into a containment area. Residents still have questions about the spill, said Vissers, …
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SI Swimsuit Edition to Highlight Gulf Coast Recovery from BP Spill
Sunshine State News (blog)
The move was intended to show the area is completely cleaned up after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the newspaper reported. The shoot took place in October, but the town’s officials were sworn to keep quiet about it before the magazine …
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Evidence blocked at BP Deepwater trial
Interactive Investor
has won a court order to prevent the inclusion of several potentially damaging e-mails, relating to previous accidents, in the forthcoming trial to determine responsibility for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A report from Reuters said the latest …
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Wakulla County in Congress for Continued Recovery from the Deepwater Horizon …
Wakulla.com
The RESTORE Act is a bill based on the fundamental principal that fines assessed to BP and the other responsible parties due to the massive and tragic DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010 should be directed to the region immediately impacted by this …
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South Florida couple accused of disaster fraud
Sun-Sentinel
… according to US Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer. On Oct. 6, they were charged with stealing $340000 from the $20 billion fund set up by BP Oil following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, prosecutors said.
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OPINION: Reporter finds himself back in the saddle again
Bristol Bay Times
I heard of the Bay Times job from Mike Rostad, publisher of the former Kodiak Fisherman newspaper where I worked briefly in 1989 before getting a job as an oil recovery technician on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. I can honestly say I took money from VECO …
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Three boats collide, one sailor missing
Tuoitrenews
All 12 crew members of the boat fell into the river and were drifted away, but 11 of them were later saved by rescuing boats from the Dai Minh Salvage Rescue and Oil Spill Response Company. One sailor remains unfound and efforts to search for him are …
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SACE Lauds Perdue on Offshore Wind Energy
Clean Energy News (press release)
Royalty payments cannot ensure adequate protection from an oil spill as the vibrant tourism and fishery industries along our coastline would be negatively affected. “The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy looks forward to working with Governor Perdue …
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Q&A: Transocean’s lawyer will have key role
Houston Chronicle
I will be the only woman leading at the upcoming oil spill trial, so it is a male-dominated industry. But with Houston, we’ve become such an international city that I don’t see any disadvantages. I see a lot of advantages. I have had the opportunity to …
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BP Wins Motion to Keep Prior Accidents Out of Macondo Trial
Trefis (subscription)
British oil major BP (NYSE:BP) succeeded in persuading US district judge Carl Barbier that evidence related to past incidents involving the company should be barred from the Gulf of Mexico spill case. The lawsuit, one of largest in corporate history, …
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Inspectors board leak-hit Gannet
Upstream Online
The field was the site of the UK’s worst oil spill in a decade last August when about 1300 barrels of crude leaked from a subsea flowline running from the Gannet F satellite field to Gannet Alpha. As today’s print edition of Upstream reveals, …
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News bites: Oil demand forecast trimmed, BP trial looms, and more
The Hill (blog)
The Houston Chronicle looks at the legal thrust-and-parry occurring as the late-February trial over 2010′s BP oil spill looms. The Associated Press reports that Pennsylvania is on the cusp of imposing fees on natural-gas drilling, which is booming in …
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Eufaula City Schools Superintendent interview: Dr. Paul Tisdale
Eufaula Tribune
As someone who dealt with the devastated Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, Tisdale said, “As superintendent, it’s my job to make tough decisions. That’s what you pay a superintendent for. “I can honestly say (while at Biloxi …
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STOCK act passes House to tamp down on insider trading
Innovation Trail
Chesapeake Energy has been fined in a fracking fluid spill that coincided with the anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Price tag: $565000 (Jim Polson, Bloomberg). The federal government has to decide if it wants to double down on renewable energy – or …
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