Oil spill
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Petroleum
Hurricane Ivan, Taylor Energy, and the 16-Year Spill That’s Still Leaking
Steeped in secrecy and legal quagmire, some estimate the Taylor wells could continue to leak for a century.
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Coal
Keystone Carries On
TC Energy Corp finished repairs last month after spilling more than 383,000 gallons in North Dakota at the end of October 2019. That spill was the fourth spill in three years for the passionately-debated Keystone Pipeline. But, one corridor of the pipeline is holding strong. The city of Port Neches in Texas has just shown its support for the crude…
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Petroleum
Nearly 400,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled from Keystone Pipeline
The Keystone pipeline burst open in North Dakota, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil
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Petroleum
Environmental Impacts of Deep-Water Oil Drilling
Offshore oil drilling can have a lasting impact on the environment
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Petroleum
Messy Past: A Brief History of Oil Spills Worldwide
Oil and gas account for nearly 80 percent of all energy that we use daily. These resources are used to power homes, businesses, schools, and entire cities, all being drawn out of the ground directly from the process of oil drilling. Once the resources are collected, they are stored in large containers, sometimes being shipped across the ocean. Due to…
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Petroleum
Everything You Need To Know About The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The oil industry has supplemented a large percentage of the global energy demand for hundreds of years. In spite of the benefits that come with the results of oil drilling, certain major accidents that occur every now and then have left a mark in the history of fossil fuels. One of the most notable of these incidents is known as…
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