Tag: oil spill
Latest oil spill in Gulf of Mexico is the biggest since...
The spill, the largest oil spill in seven years, spilled nearly 400,000 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
North Dakota plagued by oil spills: 745 in one year
Energy Transfer Partners and its subsidiary Sunoco are behind hundreds of thousands of gallons of spills from pipelines between 2015 and 2016.
BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused $17.2 billion in environmental damage...
Seven years ago yesterday, a blowout at an ultra-deepwater well operated by British oil giant BP in the Gulf of Mexico caused an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig and ultimately led to 134 million gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf.
North Dakota oil spill vastly underestimated as Trump approves KXL
On Jan. 24, President Trump signed an executive order making it easier for both the Keystone XL and the DAPL to go forward.
Dakota Access pipeline approved a week after co-owner’s pipeline spilled 600,000...
“You could just smell this oil smell. A customer walks in and says ‘nobody smoke.’ You could see it just spewing.”
High Court rules Shell not liable in UK for Nigeria oil...
The ruling is at odds with a decision at the Hague in 2015.
BP pipeline ruptures into CO river
The county where this spill took place has experienced 19 reported spills in 2016, 12 of those incidents were BP.
Pipeline 150 miles from Dakota Access Spills 176,000 gallons of crude...
Cleanup of this spill may last until spring.
Oil from BP spill has officially entered the food chain
The first signs of Deepwater Horizon oil were found in blue crab larvae in 2010. Oil likely entered the food chain through zooplankton
Shell Oil Spill Dumps Nearly 90,000 Gallons of Crude Into Gulf
Gulf residents opposed to drilling are calling on President Obama not to open additional leases in the next Five Year Plan for the Gulf of Mexico.