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Forum: Action Groups Topic: BP Used Lots of Dispersant Despite EPA Rule |
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Posted: Thu 5. Aug 2010, 17:20
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| ... harmful to marine animals and can even lead to a sharp drop in oxygen levels, explains the New York Times. Dispersants were widely used after the Exxon Valdez spill, but their effects on the ecosystem were never studied. Read original story in The Washington Post | Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010 |
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Forum: Action Groups Topic: BP eyes new option for plugging well |
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Posted: Wed 28. Jul 2010, 19:53
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| ... spokesman dismissed a Times of London report that Hayward would step down within 10 weeks. In response to the spill, big oil companies including Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell said they would spend $1 billion to develop a new spill containment system for the Gulf of Mexico. It will aim ... |
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Forum: Action Groups Topic: The World’s Ongoing Ecological Disasters |
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Posted: Thu 22. Jul 2010, 17:38
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| ... decades. As many as 546 million gallons of oil are believed to have spilled since oil exploration began in this region -- the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every year. There are around 2,000 official spill sites in the region, some of them decades old. Oil companies operating in the region ... |
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Forum: Action Groups Topic: BP Buys Up Gulf Scientists For Legal Defense, Roiling Academ |
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Posted: Sat 17. Jul 2010, 13:39
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| ... Assessment lawsuit that the federal government will bring as a result of the Gulf oil spill. The government also filed a NRDA suit after the Exxon Valdez spill. In developing its case, the government will draw on the large amount of scientific research conducted by academic institutions along ... |
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Forum: Action Groups Topic: Lessons From Exxon Valdez Spill Have Gone Unheeded |
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Posted: Sat 17. Jul 2010, 13:22
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| Lessons From Exxon Valdez Spill Have Gone Unheeded JOE STEPHENS, Staff Writer - The Washington Post It will be interesting to see whether we learn anything from the Gulf catastrophe. We certainly didn't learn much from the Exxon ... |
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Forum: Action Groups Topic: BP, Transocean tap a well of Washington lobbyists and consul |
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Posted: Fri 2. Jul 2010, 15:12
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| ... Friday by calling the tragedy "preventable and the direct result of BP's reckless decisions and actions." Nickles, who also represents Exxon Mobil, was traveling outside the country and could not be reached late last week. Another key player in the disaster is Transocean, a former U.S. ... |
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Forum: Action Groups Topic: Chevron, Clean Up Your Mess in the Amazon! |
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Posted: Fri 2. Jul 2010, 15:07
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| ... During this time, an estimated 19 million gallons of oil were spilled from the trans-Ecuadorian pipeline, almost double the amount of the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. Texaco also systematically dumped an estimated 18.5 billion gallons of toxic wastewaters into open, unlined pits, waterways ... |
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Forum: Projects Topic: Fact-checking the Oil Spill |
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Posted: Sat 19. Jun 2010, 22:03
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| ... a spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan said he thought the plans lacked specificity. But he reserved particular criticism for Exxon Mobil's plan, which includes many pages of instructions for how company officials should handle the media. "While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages ... |
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Forum: Projects Topic: How The Exxon Valdez Disaster Destroyed The Economy 20 Years |
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Posted: Fri 11. Jun 2010, 17:53
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| How The Exxon Valdez Disaster Destroyed The Economy 20 Years Later JASON LINKINS - The Huffington Post Hopefully, by now, you've already read the oil spill apocalypse pieces penned by our own Ryan Grim -- who documented "BP's ... |
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Forum: Action Groups Topic: Obama To Create Panel To Probe Oil Spill |
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Posted: Thu 20. May 2010, 17:13
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| ... he said. The Gulf spill began after an April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers. It threatens to eclipse the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska as the worst U.S. ecological disaster. The new commission will help Obama prove he is showing leadership on an issue that ... |
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