The United States National Transportation Safety Board today released more than 5,000 pages relating to its investigation of the 2010 of the Marshall, Michigan, Enbridge pipeline rupture and oil spill. The NTSB release says it is adding the documents to the "public docket" on the case. About 11:17 a.m. EDT on July 26, 2010, Enbridge […]
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The Gitga'at First Nation at Hartley Bay report that a large oil slick has been spotted in Grenville Channel near Hartley Bay. It is believed that the oil is coming from the USAT Brigadier General M.G. Zalinski, a U.S. army transport ship that sank in 1946 with 700 tonnes of bunker fuel on board. A news […]
The BBC, reporting from the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, says Norwegian scientists are becoming concerned about dumping huge amounts of tailings in the country's fjords. Reporter Jonathan Amos in Scrutiny for Norwegian fjord rock disposal says for decades some Norwegian mining companies have been using pipes at 23 sites to dump tailings as […]
Analysis British Columbia once had the richest, longest-lasting, sustainable oil economy on the planet. That's almost all gone now. While the environmental movement loves to quote Joni Mitchell's “You don't know what you've got til it's gone,” the collapse of BC's oil economy is perhaps the best example in history of what Mitchell meant in […]
Oil spill caused "unexpected lethal impact" on herring, study shows
December 26, 2011
Scientists from the University of California at Davis and NOAA studying herring spawning beds in San Francisco Bay after the Costco Busan oil spill. (UC Davis) A 53,569 gallon (202,780 litre) spill of bunker oil in San Francisco Bay in 2007 had an "unexpected lethal impact on embryonic fish," according to scientists from the […]
Scrutiny of Enbridge Northern Gateway plans: II Landslides
October 18, 2011
Energy Enviroment This photograph from the geomorphology report shows how bedrock spread lead to catastrophic landslides along a 2.5 kilometre scarp (photo lower centre to upper right) and a 1.3 km scarp (photo distance) on the ridge above Parrott Creek. The yellow dashed line delineates the landslides' headscarp. The arrow shows the direction of movement. […]