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First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Soviet oceanographic surveys opened up to western scientists

A treasure trove of Barents Sea fisheries data collected during Soviet-era research voyages have recently been digitalized and now yields precious new knowledge about the ecosystem in the area.The data can help determine the fate of future offshore oil ... [Published Barents Observer - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Larva, Murmansk, Oil Spill, Norway, Arctic Cod

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 reports

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd

CP Railway reopens line, cleans up after oil spill

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd said on Wednesday it has repaired and reopened a rail line near Jansen, Saskatchewan, and continues to clean up after a derailment that spilled 575 barrels of crude oil on Tuesday. ... [Published Reuters: Environment - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Oil Spill, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd, Crude Oil

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Baltic Sea free of illegal oil spills, air surveillance shows

A nice oil rig, yesterdayThe latest marine oil spill surveillance operation carried out by Finland, Sweden and Estonia, did not detect any oils spills in the Northern Baltic Sea area, consistent with an observed trend of decreasing instances of oil spill ... [Published Institution of Electrical Engineers - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Oil Spill, Baltic Sea, Air Surveillance

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Introduction: 37 years of oil spills in Alberta

Timelapse: All spills of crude oil, crude bitumen and synthetic crude in Alberta each year from 1975-2012. Source: Energy Resources Conservation BoardAlberta’s had an average of two crude oil spills a day, every day for the past 37 years.That makes 28,666 ... [Published Global News Canada - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Oil Spill, Crude Oil, Database, SOURCE Energy Corp, National Energy Board

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 reports

BP plc

BP protester settles suit alleging retaliation

A woman has reached a lawsuit settlement with a south Mississippi city where she says police arrested her for protesting the BP oil spill then arrested her again in retaliation for suing, according to court records.Terms of Tuesday's settlement were not ... [Published Lexington Dispatch - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Sandra Howard, BP plc, Allegation, Lawsuit

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 3 reports

Latest Mississippi River Delta News: May 22, 2013

30 years of time-lapse satellite images show coastal Louisiana wasting awayBy Bob Marshall, The Lens (New Orleans). May 21, 2013."The new Google app arrived in my life to the kind of reception reserved for a doctor carrying the results of a biopsy. Did ... [Published Environmental Defense - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Mississippi River, Oil Spill, BP plc, New Orleans, Bob Marshall

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 4 reports

Train accident spills 91k liters of oil

A Canadian freight train has derailed in the Saskatchewan province spilling more than 91,000 liters of oil.The accident happened on Tuesday as the 64-unit eastbound train operated by the Canadian Pacific Rail was traveling through an area southeast of ... [Published Press tv - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Cdn Pac Ltd, Oil Spill, Ed Greenberg

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Low-Grade Cotton Provides Eco-friendly, Effective Oil Spill Cleanup Solution

Researchers at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, have found that unprocessed low-micronaire cotton surpasses other, higher grades of cotton in its ability to absorb oil, making it the most effective cotton-based solution for cleaning up crude oil ... [Published Textile World - May 22 2013]

Entities: Cotton, Crude Oil, Oil Spill

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 11 reports

BP increases challenges to oil spill payouts

Oil group aims to stop what it believes are unjustified compensation payments under the settlement it agreed with victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill ... [Published FT.com - Companies - May 21 2013]

Entities: Oil Spill, BP plc, Gulf of Mexico

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 3 reports

Officials looking for source of oil spill hitting Galveston beaches

Officials are looking into the possibility that a ship anchored offshore may have spilled oil that slightly damaged roughly a mile and a half stretch of beaches on Galveston's West End.Rich Arnhart, regional director of the Texas General Land Office, ... [Published Houston Chronicle - May 21 2013]

Entities: Oil Spill, General Land Office, Seepage, Pollution Control

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Judge tosses a charge in BP case

Former BP executive no longer faces obstruction of Congress accusationPage 1 of 1A federal judge Monday threw out an obstruction of Congress charge against a former BP executive who had been accused of lying about the amount of oil that was flowing after ... [Published Houston Chronicle - May 21 2013]

Entities: BP plc, Edward Markey, Oil Spill, Indictment

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Environmentalists warn of Qld oil spills

MORE oil spills will occur in western Queensland if the state government dilutes Labor's environmental protection laws, the Wilderness Society says.Read the full story at News.com.au ... [Published The Sydney News - May 21 2013]

Entities: Oil Spill, DILUTION

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Soledad O?Brien Named New Moderator of National Geographic Bee [Published Noodls - 22 mins ago]

...interested to know that there were a rash of UFO sightings in southwest Georgia from 1969-1973 that eventually caused the Pentagon to get involved. "We have interviewed many witnesses and are working directly from the dozens of newspaper reports we were given by The Albany Herald" , says McGriff

New film highlights Carter UFO sighting [Published Examiner.com - 49 mins ago]

"All the things that Ken Saro-Wiwa fought and died for, we are still fighting for them. While Peter Voser is retiring to spend more time with his family, the people in Ogoniland, like other parts of the Niger Delta region, are still fighting for a livable environment for their families."

Nigeria: Niger Delta Activist Plans 'Special Present' for Retiring Shell CEO [Published AllAfrica.com - 2 hours ago]

...characteristic of crude oil toxicity," said co-author Andrew Whitehead, an assistant professorprofessor of environmental toxicology at UC Davis. "It's important that we observe it in the context of the Deepwater Horizon spill because it tells us it is far too early to say the effects of the oil spill are known and inconsequential. By definition, effects on reproduction and development effects that could impact populations — can take time to emerge." But he also noted that oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill showed up in patches without coating the coastline...

Gulf Killifish Show Defects from Crude Oil Exposure [Published LiveScience.com - 6 hours ago]

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Thursday at the Legislature [Published The Advocate - 6 hours ago]
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Energy And Environment Update -- May 20, 2013 [Published JD Supra - 9 hours ago]
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Saving the Delta from Disaster [Published Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership - 10 hours ago]

Blogs

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Europe’s Oil Price-Fixing Scandal: The Next Libor? [Published Economy Watch - 1 hour ago] How The Great Recession Fundamentally Altered World Oil Prices : The downturn beginning in 2008 triggered a ...China Firms to Invest $2bn in Shale Gas Exploration : Sixteen Chinese firms that won a second round of ...U.S. to Overtake Saudi Arabia as Top ...
Spying Oil Spills from Space [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - 12 hours ago] The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is trialling the use of satellites to detect oil spills in Australian waters. Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SSAR) can identify potential oil spills directly from orbit. These satellite ...
BP’s Horizon Settlements, BlackBerry Gets a Dow... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - 14 hours ago] British Petroleum ( NYSE:BP ): BP has taken a firmer stance on its compensation claims from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as it now objects to 9.3 percent of awards administered by Patrick Juneau who oversees settlement claims, up from ...
ubalert: Environmentalists Concerned About Oil ... [Published Twitter - ubalert - 14 hours ago] ubalert: Environmentalists Concerned About Oil Spill Near Queensland-South Australian Border- http://t.co/Pseu7mnwdu #oilspill #fb ...
Will Oil Spill Payments ‘Irreparably’ Harm BP? [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - 17 hours ago] The amount of money that BP ( NYSE:BP ) has been required to shell out due to its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill that spewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the ocean has grown at an alarming rate, particularly in regards to the restitution ...

Audio/Video

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Mississippi Sues BP Over Gulf Oil Spill [Published FOX Business - Video - Apr 19 2013]
Technology shifts from cleaning up oil spills, ... [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - Apr 18 2013]
Rare video: Mayflower oil spill disaster zone i... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - Apr 06 2013]
Media Grounded: No-fly zone over Arkansas oil s... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - Apr 04 2013]
BP: Fraudulent Claims for Spill Could Cost Bill... [Published WSJ.com Video - News - Apr 04 2013]

Press Releases

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Sun Bergeron Contract with Southwest Ranches Op... [Published Business Wire - May 07 2013]
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Thompson Pump’s 2013 Pumpology® School [Published PR.com Press Releases - May 02 2013]