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Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez?
Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez? In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the […]
News Not to Miss: Oil Train Spill, China Petrochemical Deal, Methane Leaks
News Not to Miss: Oil Train Spill, China Petrochemical Deal, Methane Leaks It’s hard to keep up with the flood of news these days. Here’s your weekly round-up of news not to miss from DeSmog. Justin Mikulka has been on the oil train beat for years. He’s documented how the oil boom and pipeline bottleneck in the […]
Asia Is About To Be Hit By The “Worst Oil Tanker Spill In Decades”
Asia Is About To Be Hit By The “Worst Oil Tanker Spill In Decades” The Sanchi disaster is even worse than many initially expected, according to a chilling new report published by Britain’s National Oceanography Centre that shows the ship’s cargo – the equivalent of nearly 1 million barrels of ultra-light crude, plus its own […]
Five Spills, Six Months in Operation: Dakota Access Track Record Highlights Unavoidable Reality–Pipelines Leak
Photo: Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg News/Getty Images FIVE SPILLS, SIX MONTHS IN OPERATION: DAKOTA ACCESS TRACK RECORD HIGHLIGHTS UNAVOIDABLE REALITY — PIPELINES LEAK REPRESENTATIVES FROM Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, traveled to Cambridge, Iowa, in October to present a series of $20,000 checks to emergency management departments in six counties. The […]
WTI Prices Surge On Keystone Spill
WTI Prices Surge On Keystone Spill Oil prices surged on Wednesday on news that the Keystone pipeline might not restart for several weeks. The outage at the damaged pipeline ended several years of contango for WTI, pushing the benchmark into a state of backwardation for the first time since 2014. TransCanada made a lot of […]
Deepwater Horizon and our emerging ‘normal’ catastrophes
Deepwater Horizon and our emerging ‘normal’ catastrophes While watching the recently released film “Deepwater Horizon” about the catastrophic well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico that caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history, I remembered the term “fail-dangerous,” a term I first encountered in correspondence with a risk consultant for the oil and gas industry. We’ve […]
Long-term oil spill causes fishery collapse in Newfoundland
Long-term oil spill causes fishery collapse in Newfoundland File photo courtesy: Pixabay Monday, August 15, 2016, 4:51 PM – An oil spill that has been seeping into Port au Port Bay near Shoal Port for three years has caused a once-abundant scallop fishery to “collapse”, the Canadian Press (CP) reports. The continuous spill, which sometimes […]
Shell Oil Spill Cleanup Operation Ends As Voices Against New Gulf Drilling Grow Louder
Shell Oil Spill Cleanup Operation Ends As Voices Against New Gulf Drilling Grow Louder Five days after Royal Dutch Shell reported an estimated 88,000 gallon crude oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico from its operations in the Glider field, the oil company and the U.S. Coast Guard agreed to halt skimming operations used in the cleanup because they were no […]
Six Years After Deepwater Horizon: Time For Serious Action
Six Years After Deepwater Horizon: Time For Serious Action Wednesday, April 20th, 2016 will mark the six-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that claimed the lives of eleven men and caused the largest man-made oil spill in history. The cleanup crews abandoned the Gulf Coast years ago, claiming that the damage from the […]
U.S. Not Prepared for Tar Sands Oil Spills, National Study Finds
U.S. Not Prepared for Tar Sands Oil Spills, National Study Finds Report urges new regulations, research, and technology to respond to spills of diluted bitumen. Photo courtesy Sam LaSusa Oil gathers in a sheen near the banks of the Kalamazoo River more than a week after a spill of crude oil, including tar sands oil, […]
Amnesty International: Shell’s Claim Of Clean Up In Nigeria “Blatantly False”
Amnesty International: Shell’s Claim Of Clean Up In Nigeria “Blatantly False” A new report from Amnesty International alleges that Royal Dutch Shell did not, in fact, clean up its oil spills in Nigeria despite company claims that the task was completed. Shell is the largest oil company to operate in the Niger Delta, with over 5,000 kilometers […]
Nexen’s Brand New, Double-Layered Pipeline Just Ruptured, Causing One of the Biggest Oil Spills Ever in Alberta
Nexen’s Brand New, Double-Layered Pipeline Just Ruptured, Causing One of the Biggest Oil Spills Ever in Alberta A pipeline at Nexen Energy’s Long Lake oilsands facility southeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, spilled about five million liters (32,000 barrels or some 1.32 million gallons) of emulsion, a mixture of bitumen, sand and water, Wednesday afternoon — […]
Nexen pipeline leak in Alberta spills 5 million litres
Nexen pipeline leak in Alberta spills 5 million litres Nexen Energy spill south of Fort McMurray covers about 16,000 square metres One of the largest leaks in Alberta history has spilled about five million litres of emulsion from a Nexen Energy pipeline at the company’s Long Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray. The leak […]
