A Dutch appeals court on Friday held Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary responsible for multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta and ordered it … Environmentalists, farmers win Dutch court case over Shell Nigeria spillsRead more
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Mauritians take to the street over oil spill and dolphin and whale deaths
People gathered in the thousands in Mauritius’s capital, Port Louis, to protest the government’s response to a recent oil spill. The Japanese-owned freighter M.V. Wakashio … Mauritians take to the street over oil spill and dolphin and whale deathsRead more
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Enbridge Agrees To Pay $75 Million For Massive Kalamazoo River Tar Sands Spill
Canadian oil company Enbridge has agreed to pay $75 million for its role in a 2010 pipeline rupture that resulted in the largest inland oil … Enbridge Agrees To Pay $75 Million For Massive Kalamazoo River Tar Sands SpillRead more
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BP to Pay $18.7B in Sweeping Oil Spill Settlement
BP has reached an $18.7 billion settlement to resolve all government claims resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, the worst offshore oil spill in … BP to Pay $18.7B in Sweeping Oil Spill SettlementRead more
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Exxon Will Pay $5 Million To End Lawsuit Over 134,000-Gallon Mayflower Oil Spill
ExxonMobil has agreed to pay approximately $5 million to end a lawsuit over a 2013 pipeline rupture that coated an Arkansas town with 133,980 gallons … Exxon Will Pay $5 Million To End Lawsuit Over 134,000-Gallon Mayflower Oil SpillRead more
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Lessons We Cannot Ignore from the BP Disaster
On April 20, 2010, the BP exploratory rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 workers and setting off the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Oil … Lessons We Cannot Ignore from the BP DisasterRead more
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Exxon Confirms 80,000-Gallon Spill Contains Canadian Tar Sands Oil
A pipeline that ruptured and leaked at least 80,000 gallons of oil into central Arkansas on Friday was transporting a heavy form of crude from … Exxon Confirms 80,000-Gallon Spill Contains Canadian Tar Sands OilRead more
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Chevron spills 800,000 gallon of oil and water in California
Major oil corporation Chevron spilled 800,000 gallons of crude oil and water into a dry creek in Southern California. While the spill is estimated to … Chevron spills 800,000 gallon of oil and water in CaliforniaRead more
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U.S. Pipelines Spill 9,000 Gallons of Dangerous Chemicals a Day
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Solomon Islands Oil Spill Threatens World Heritage Site
For the last month, an environmental crisis has slowly unfolded off the Solomon islands, after a bauxite bulk carrier ran aground and started leaking oil … Solomon Islands Oil Spill Threatens World Heritage SiteRead more