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...This will get less news coverage in the US then a Tesla on fire or all the birds killed by windmills.
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After 800,000-Gallon Spill, Chevron Site is Still Leaking Oilhttps://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-07-18/chevron-oil-spill-california-diane-feinsteinNews broke that a Chevron oil well in Kern County had leaked nearly 800,000 gallons of crude petroleum and water into a dry creek bed about 35 miles west of Bakersfield over the past two months. The mixture was about one-third oil and two-thirds water, and the flow has since ceased, according to the state Department of Conservation. The seep occurred in an oil field where Chevron uses a process called steam injection to extract underground crude oil.
However, California officials confirmed Thursday that the site was once again seeping a hazardous mix of oil and water.
Ted Goldberg, an editor at
KQED News who often reports on Bay Area refineries, uncovered the spill while searching a government database for updates on an entirely separate incident at Chevron’s Richmond refinery in Northern California. “In May, Chevron officials began noticing that oil and water started coming up from the ground when it shouldn’t,” Goldberg explained. “It lasted for a little while and then it stopped. And then on two other occasions since then, it started [again]. The agency that’s responsible for regulating this stuff has been criticized, basically, for not doing an aggressive job in general.”
California officials confirmed Thursday that the site was once again seeping a hazardous mix of oil and water.
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320,000 Litres of Oil and Produced Water Spills at Alberta Facilityhttps://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/320-000-litres-of-oil-and-produced-water-spills-at-alberta-facility-1.4512582The Alberta Energy Regulator has few details about Saturday's spill on its compliance reporting website.
It says 320,000 litres of the substances leaked after a problem with pump equipment.
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Longest Oil Spill in U.S. History May Be 900 Times Larger Than Originally Estimatedhttps://earther.gizmodo.com/longest-oil-spill-in-u-s-history-may-be-900-times-larg-1835847992While the BP oil disaster has received far more attention, elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, oil has been leaking into the water for far longer. The so-called Taylor oil spill began in 2004 but it went largely unnoticed until an investigation by the Associated Press in 2015. Now, federal agencies are finally learning just how much oil has leaked in what has become the longest spill in US history—and it’s looking far worse than the company let on.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published a report Monday detailing how many gallons of oil have been spilling a day since powerful waves from 2004's Hurricane Ivan caused an off-shore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico to fall into the ocean, spewing oil onto the ocean floor.
Developer Taylor Energy Company, which shut down in 2008, has maintained that the incident has resulted in 3 to 5 gallons leaking a day since the disaster, according to E&E News. This new government study, however, shows that the leakage could be as high as 4,578 gallons a day.That’s more than 25 million gallons of oil over these 15 years. The Deepwater Horizon Spill, for comparison, resulted in 168 million gallons of oil total.
Research from earlier this year suggested the leak could be as high as 71,400 gallons a day, reports the
Times-Picayune.
https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/an-integrated-assessment-of-oil-and-gas-release-into-the-marine-environment-at-the-former-taylor-energy-mc20-site/ ----------------------
12,000 L of Oil Spilled in North Atlantic Off Newfoundland, Forcing Rig Shutdownhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/hibernia-oil-spill-production-stopped-1.5216108According to the Canada-Newfoundland & Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, satellite imagery at 9 a.m. NT on Thursday shows two slicks. One is 1.71 square kilometres and 3.27 kilometres long, and one is 6.64 square kilometres and 3.78 kilometres long - Company spokesman from
Hibernia said the sheen was reported to be 900 metres by 20 metres, but was dissipating. Who you going to believe?