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Trump Administration rolling back safety rules born from Deepwater Horizon disaster

Scrapping regulations will save $28.8 million a year. BP has already spent $62 billion cleaning up after Deepwater Horizon disaster After reviewing off-shore oil and gas production safety regulations enacted by the Obama Administration after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster at the request of President Donald Trump, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) […]

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Prairie Mines & Royalty to pay $4.42 million for Obed Mountain mine spill

Canada

Combined penalties of $4.42 million to both Federal and Provincial governments On October 31, 2013, a dike that was holding back a large volume of waste water at the Obed Mountain Mine near Hinton, Alberta failed, resulting in more than 670 million litres of contaminated water and sediment (made up of coal, clay and sand) spilling

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Canadian scientists’ develop revolutionary oil spill device

Innovation

Tests show the technology can clean up nearly 100% of a spill Oil spills are one of the most dreaded, detrimental events on the planet: BP estimated the clean-up costs of 2010’s Deepwater Horizon spill to be $62bn in 2016 – and researchers have found Americans would pay $17.2bn to prevent the same thing ever happening

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Small hole caused Saskatchewan pipeline spill

Canada

Most of the oil leaked in Saskatchewan pipeline spill recovered Jan 26 (Reuters) – A small hole on a weld between two segments of a shallow four-inch pipe has been discovered on a pipeline that leaked some 200,000 liters (52,834 gallons) of oil onto aboriginal land in Saskatchewan last week, provincial officials said on Thursday. They

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Crews seek source of Saskatchewan oil spill on aboriginal land

Canada

Saskatchewan oil spill leaked 200,000 litres of oil By Alastair Sharp TORONTO, Jan 24 (Reuters) – An investigation into an oil spill on an aboriginal reserve in western Canada will include checks of leak-detection measures, Saskatchewan’s energy minister said on Tuesday, as crews prepare to excavate the site to confirm the spill’s source. “We need to

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North Dakota spill sixth largest pipeline leak in 2016 – data

News

Dec. 5 North Dakota spill leaked into Ash Coulee Creek By Liz Hampton HOUSTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Crews have recovered about 1,805 barrels of oil from a creek in North Dakota following a Dec. 5 spill that leaked 4,200 barrels, making it the sixth-largest pipeline leak this year, according to government data. The cause of

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Belle Fourche Pipeline shut down after North Dakota spill

News

Belle Fourche Pipeline leaked into Ash Coulee Creek Dec 6 (Reuters) – The Belle Fourche Pipeline was shut down in western North Dakota following a leak that spilled oil into a creek, the state said on Tuesday. The size of Monday’s leak and extent of the spill were not yet known. It occurred as Native Americans, climate

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Law firm says Plains All American Pipeline may have misled investors

Energy Financial

Line 901 oil spill onto Pacific coastline initially called a small spill, until months later it was revealed to be much larger, and the U.S. Department of Justice had initiated a criminal investigation into the spill A Denver law firm says that as part of a class action lawsuit it is investigating whether officers and directors of Houston-based Plains

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