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The woman who was a key figure in the federal government’s
response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 said Wednesday she
will leave her post at the end of February.
West Coast oil tanker spill clean-up could cost $9.6B
A new study says the cost of cleaning up a major oil spill on the
North Coast of B.C. could hit $9.6 billion, wiping out any economic
benefits from the Northern Gateway Pipeline project for the region.
Nantucket Company Faces Penalty for Violations of Oil Pollution
Prevention Regulations
Harbor Fuel Oil Corp., a fuel storage and distribution company on
Nantucket Island in Massachusetts faces penalties of potentially up to
$177,500 for alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
Long, uncertain path ahead for Gulf restoration after oil spill
In the coming years, unprecedented billions will be spent on
restoration in the Gulf of Mexico, a vital American ecosystem damaged by
the most catastrophic oil spill in U.S. history.
Gulf states, especially Louisiana, will see billions of dollars devoted
to restoring habitat and coastline hurt not just by the 2010 BP oil spill, but
also by decades of oil and gas exploration, U.S. agricultural practices and
the management of the Mississippi and the rivers that drain into it on its
way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Coast Guard conducts oil spill response exercise near Honolulu
The Coast Guard did an oil spill response exercise offshore of Oahu
Wednesday.
Members from the 14th District Response Advisory Team and the
Coast Guard’s Deployable Operations Group worked with crewmembers
aboard of the Coast Guard Cutter Walnut to test the Spilled Oil Recovery
System.
Keystone’s ‘dilbit’ problem
“Dilbit” — drop the word in casual conversation and listeners might
think you’re talking about the comic strip engineer who can’t get a date.
But dilbit actually stands for “diluted bitumen,” a heretofore obscure oil
industry term that may soon be trending on your search engine as
controversy deepens over the Keystone XL pipeline, a project to carry oil