13 Oil Spills in 30 Days
13 SPILLS IN 30 DAYS THE DIRTY BUSINESS OF MOVING OIL DATE LOCATION SPILL TYPE VOLUME Gwagwalada town, Nigeria Week-long leak of Kilometer 407.5 NNPC Nigeria National Petroleum Corp pipeline No official # released, spill saturated a hectare (10 000 sq meters) of ground March 11-21 Tuesday March 19 Fort Simpson Northwest Territories Canada Enbridge Norman Wells pipeline leak 6,290 barrels of crude oil Monday March 25 Fort MacKay Alberta, Canada Suncor Tar Sands tailing pond leaks into Athabasca River 2200 barrels of tailing pond waste fluid (toxic) Wednesday March 27 Parker Prairie Minnesota, USA CP Rail train derailment 952 barrels Tar Sands crude Friday March 29 Mayflower Arkansas, USA Rupture of a 22 foot long section of Exon Mobil's Pegasus Pipeline Estimated to be 12,000 barrels of diluted Tar Sands bitumen CO Sunday 16 barrels of hydraulic fluid A power plant in Lansing, Michigan, USA Oil-based hydraulic fluid spilled into Grand River March 31st Tuesday April 2 Shell Nigeria's Nembe Creek Trunkline pipeline shut down to repair oil theft damage Shell reported 60,000 barrels of crude oil stolen from the pipeline per day in March Nembe, Nigeria Wednesday April 3 White River Ontario, Canada CN Rail train derailment 400 barrels of crude oil Wednesday April 3 350KM SE of Newfoundland, Canada Drilling Platform leak 0.25 barrels of crude oil Houston Texas, USA 700 barrels of crude oil spilled (-70 barrels est. to have leaked into Bayou) Shell West Columbia Wednesday April 3 Pipeline leak 0.24 barrels of hydrogen Wednesday April 4 Condensate spill at Exxon Refinery Chalmette sulfide & 0.04 barrels Louisiana, USA of benzene Monday April 8 Esmeraldas, Ecuador OPEC-managed OCP Pipeline leak 5,500 barrels of heavy crude oil, contaminating Winchele estuary Tuesday AA April 9 Human error at Repsol E&P USA Inc pump station 29KM NE of 157 barrels of crude oil Nuigsut, Alaska, USA *BECAUSE OF NIGERIA'S LAX GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS ON REPORTING SPILLS, THESE FIGURES ARE LIKELY MUCH HIGHER TYPES OF OIL SPILLED IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA 46% 45% 77% 0.05% 0.002% TAILING POND WASTE FLUID CRUDE OIL TAR SANDS OIL HYDRAULIC CONDENSATE & DILUTED BITUMEN FLUID IN TOTAL, OIL COMPANIES IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA SPILLED AT LEAST 1,185,000 GALLONS OF OIL & TOXIC CHEMICALS IN THE PAST 30 DAYS. (ENOUGH TO FILL 2 OLYMPIC-SIZED SWIMMING POOLS) CC SELECTED SOURCES: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/internation- al-business/latin-american-business/ecuador-cil-pipeline-bursts/articlel0902608/ http://allafrica.com/stories/201303290773.html?viewall=1 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/02/shell-to-shut-key-nigeria-pipeline-to-repair-oil-theft-damage/ http://tcktcktck.org/2013/04/spill-derail-leak-crash-a-week-in-the-tar-sands-industry/49747 tcktcktck
13 Oil Spills in 30 Days
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