Tag: oil spills
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Canada oil sands leak heightens First Nations’ calls to clean up tailings
Photo: Demonstrators rally against Imperial Oil’s ongoing tailings pond leak, in Ottawa By Nia Williams (Reuters) – In early February, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta started fielding calls from community members after the provincial regulator revealed toxic wastewater had been leaking for months from a tailings pond at…
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Duke Study: Rivers Contaminated With Radium and Lead From Thousands of Fracking Wastewater Spills
Bakken Oil and Gas in Williston, North Dakota on the Missouri River. Photo Credit: EcoFlight Thousands of oil and gas industry wastewater spills in North Dakota have caused “widespread” contamination from radioactive materials, heavy metals and corrosive salts, putting the health of people and wildlife at risk, researchers from Duke University concluded in a newly…
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14-year oil spill in Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in US history
Photo: An aerial image of an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, taken on April 28, 2018. (Oscar Garcia-Pineda) NEW ORLEANS — An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst…
