Posts Tagged ‘spill’

In America, when deadly chemicals spill on land, it’s deemed “perfectly safe,” but when chemicals are used to sterilize instruments in hospitals, it’s called “dangerous”

(NaturalNews) (Natural News) The haphazard Environmental Protection Agency of America wants to limit use of the hospital sterilizing agent ethylene oxide due to increased cancer risk. This strange assessment comes just weeks after they declared all land, farms, and water perfectly safe where dioxin (one of the most deadly toxins on Earth) was burned … […]

East Palestine toxic chemical spill could affect far-off cities and suburbs

(NaturalNews) (Natural News) Health and environmental concerns have been arising following the Norfolk Southern train derailment on Feb. 3 that caused a chemical “cocktail” spill in East Palestine, Ohio. People fear the potential adverse effects of authorities’ decision to embark on “controlled burning” of vinyl chloride and other cancer-causing toxins … [Read More…] Source

Govt. officials continue lying about East Palestine chemical spill, claiming no risks to health despite overwhelming evidence of harm from chemical exposure

(NaturalNews) (Natural News) Government health officials on the state and federal level are continuing to lie to the American public about the severity of the massive spill and burnoff of highly toxic chemicals following a major train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month.The lack of answers regarding health effects and … [Read More…] […]

Spain’s biggest environmental disaster: The Prestige oil spill 20 years later

Never before had 63,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil washed up on Iberian coasts, creating a 2,000 kilometres-long polluted area stretching from Portugal to Spain and all the way to France. Source

Yemen’s HSA pledges $1.2m to UN drive to avert tanker oil spill

Yemen’s HSA Group, on Thursday, became the first private entity to pledge funds for a United Nations operation to avoid an oil spill from a tanker stranded off the coast of Yemen, as the UN urgently tries to secure an initial requirement of $80 million, Reuters reports. The international organisation, which has so far raised […]

Cyprus farmers spill milk in protest over halloumi cheese protection

Goat and sheep herders are angry the cheese’s protected status isn’t being implemented fast enough.

Peru bans Repsol execs from leaving country after oil spill

A Peruvian judge on Friday banned Repsol’s Peru director and three other executives from leaving the country for 18 months while the government investigates an oil spill at a refinery run by the Spain-based company. Peru authorities are investigating Repsol following the oil spill on Jan. 15, which was reported after surging waves caused by […]

Taylor Energy agrees to pay for cleanup of longest-running oil spill in US history

A settlement between the Department of the Interior and a Louisiana energy company was reached to pay for the longest-running oil spill. Taylor Energy will pay upwards of $43 million in penalties and transfer $432 million as a trust to the Department to start cleaning up the 17-year spill. The oil spill, which began in […]

Orange County Supervisors Continue Local Emergency Amid Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts

Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Oct. 19 a continuation of the local emergency regarding the recent oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach, California. The response to the coastal oil spill in Orange and San Diego County proceeds as the amount of estimated oil leakage dropped from 127,000 gallons to around 25,000 […]

Oil-soaked birds found near oil spill at refinery after Ida

Wiebe said efforts to capture and save more birds are ongoing. The affected species include black-bellied whistling ducks, blue-winged teal and a variety of egrets. Other animals were also seen covered in oil, include alligators, nutria and river otters. A summary issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency said it had received 43 notifications of […]

“This Is Big”: 14-Mile Long Oil Spill In Gulf Of Mexico Investigated By Coast Guard

“This Is Big”: 14-Mile Long Oil Spill In Gulf Of Mexico Investigated By Coast GuardPosted on September 6, 2021 By Tyler DurdenThe US Coast Guard is responding to a 14-mile long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico discovered in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, officials said Saturday according to Bloomberg. The spill, which consists […]

Indigenous communities march for justice a year on from devastating Amazon oil spill

Hundreds of Indigenous activists took to the streets in Ecuador this week to demand justice on the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst oil spill in 15 years. Demonstrators marched through the Amazonian city of Coca to call on authorities to take responsibility for the 16,000 barrels of crude oil that poured into the Coca […]

2017 oil spill closed three desalination plants for three days, official reveals

The senior Environmental Protection Ministry official charged with coordinating the response to last month’s oil disaster revealed that a previous, much smaller spill, in 2017, had forced the closure of three desalination plants for three days. Some 75 percent of Israel’s drinking and industrial water is supplied by five desalination plants on the Mediterranean coast. […]

Israel points to Iran for causing oil spill, calling it ‘environmental terrorism’

Browse > Home / News / Israel points to Iran for causing oil spill, calling it ‘environmental terrorism’ March 4, 2021 by JNS Read on for article Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel accused Iran on Wednesday of being behind a major oil spill off Israel’s coast from Feb. 1-2. Israeli soldiers clean tar off […]

Israel accuses Iran of ‘environmental terrorism’ over oil spill off its coast, warns culprits ‘must pay price’

The Israeli government has said Iran is behind a recent oil spill off Israel’s coast which caused huge ecological damage and has been described as one of the worst such pollution incidents in Israel’s history. Israel’s Environment Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said on Wednesday that Israeli officials had identified a Libyan-owned oil tanker, called Emerald […]

Israel’s Environment Minister: Massive Oil Spill Was ‘Environmental Terrorism’ by Ship Sailing From Iran

A clump of tar is seen on the sand after an offshore oil spill drenched much of Israel’s Mediterranean shoreline with tar, at a beach in Ashdod, southern Israel, February 21, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen. A massive oil spill off Israel’s coast last month that severely polluted its beaches was “environmental terrorism” committed by a […]

Israel says Iran is behind major oil spill, accusing Tehran of ‘environmental terrorism’

News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source

Israel rules out Greek tanker as suspect in Mediterranean oil spill

Browse > Home / News / Israel rules out Greek tanker as suspect in Mediterranean oil spill March 1, 2021 by JNS Read on for article The Greek tanker Minerva Helen was not the source of the tons of toxic tar that washed up on Israel’s shores last weekend, Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry announced on Sunday. […]

Israel: Greek tanker ruled out as source of massive oil spill

News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source

Greek tanker cleared of suspicion for oil spill that polluted Israel’s beaches

The Environmental Protection Ministry announced Sunday that it had absolved a Greek oil tanker suspected of responsibility for the oil leak that has contaminated Israel’s Mediterranean coast with tons of sticky, black tar. Investigators flew to Greece and checked over the Minerva Helen on Saturday, which is docked at the port of Piraus. A ministry […]

Israeli officials raid Greek ship suspected of tar spill on Israeli beaches

Browse > Home / News / Israeli officials raid Greek ship suspected of tar spill on Israeli beaches February 28, 2021 by Aryeh Savir – TPS Read on for article Israeli officials from the Ministry of Environmental Protection boarded a ship docked in Greece that is suspected of being responsible for dumping tar into the […]

Potential new oil spill identified off the coast of Israel

News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source

Tar covering Israel’s beaches doesn’t bode well for its handling of the next major oil spill

News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source

Israel scrambles to save animals hurt in massive tar spill

Browse > Home / News / Israel scrambles to save animals hurt in massive tar spill February 25, 2021 by   Read on for article A catastrophic tar spill washing up along Israel’s entire Mediterranean coast may be the worst environmental disaster in Israeli history. Tar-coated sea turtles on a beach in Israel, Photo courtesy […]

Israeli government allocates $13.8 million to oil-spill cleanup

Browse > Home / News / Israeli government allocates $13.8 million to oil-spill cleanup February 25, 2021 by JNS Read on for article Israel’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved the allocation of 45 million shekels ($13.8 million) to help deal with a massive oil spill that has polluted some 100 miles of Israel’s coast. Approximately $20,000 […]

Israel Closes Mediterranean Beaches After Oil Spill Devastates Coast

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel closed all its Mediterranean beaches until further notice on Sunday, days after an offshore oil spill deposited tons of tar across more than 100 miles of coastline in what officials are calling one of the country’s worst ecological disasters. Activists began reporting globs of black tar on Israel’s coast last week […]

Oil spill off Israel’s coast is its worst maritime pollution in decades

News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source

Decades After The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Local Dolphins Are Still Suffering

An oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana killed eleven workers on 20 April 2010. The world then watched helplessly as BP’s oil gushed out into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days, killing untold millions of marine animals. Dolphins that survived one of the worst environmental disasters ever, still appear to be suffering the […]

Energy giant Shell liable for Nigeria oil spill, Dutch court rules

A Dutch court has ordered Shell’s local subsidiary in Nigeria to compensate four farmers whose land was damaged by oil leaks in 2004 and 2005. The appeals court in The Hague said Shell Nigeria was responsible for multiple cases of oil pollution in the long-running case, a test of how far Netherlands-based multinational companies are […]

Mauritius is racing against time to reduce oil spill damage

Local and foreign volunteer support forces, international organisations and other countries are helping Mauritius race against time to handle a serious oil spill caused by a Japanese freighter that ran aground on the high seas late last month. The MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned bulk carrier, which struck a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius […]

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