Thai vessel stranded on reef facing daily Rf700,000 fine, oil spill risk
Originally published on Minivan News. By Eleanor Johnstone The owner of Thai fishing vessel that ran aground on the reef along Shangri-La Villingili Island Resort last month will today be issued a...
View ArticleChevron faces $10.6bn Brazil legal suit over oil spill
Originally published on the BBC. Prosecutors in Brazil are demanding $10.6bn (£6.8bn) from US oil company Chevron for environmental damage caused when one of its oil wells leaked off the coast of Rio...
View ArticlePowerGen takes blame for oil spill in Trinidad
Originally published by Trinidad Express. By Renuka Singh A two-day oil leak from PowerGen’s bunkered fuel tanker has spilled out into Invaders Bay and left an almost two-mile long oil slick, affecting...
View ArticleTanker traffic increase threatens the Salish Sea off British Columbia’s...
Originally published in the Times Colonist. By Chris Genovali And Misty MacDuffee, Times Colonist On British Columbia’s south coast, Kinder Morgan wants to triple the amount of crude oil being shipped...
View ArticleBrazil Sues Chevron for $11 Billion for oil spill
Originally published by the Wall Street Journal. By MATTHEW COWLEY And JOHN LYONS SAO PAULO—A Brazilian federal prosecutor on Wednesday asked a judge to shut down all Chevron Corp. and Transocean Ltd....
View ArticleBombs, Oil Spill Shake Nigeria: Offshore leak stems from flexible export line...
Originally published on AdvisorOne. BY MARLENE Y. SATTER, ADVISORONE Nigeria was hit with a double whammy over the past few days: first an oil spill that could develop into its worst since January of...
View ArticleOil slick in the Gulf, near Trinidad
Originally published on Newsday. Significant amounts of tar and oil yesterday blackened large portions of the Gulf-of-Paria, on Trinidad and Tobago’s west coast, the result of an apparent oil spillage....
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