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Bloomberg BNA Releases New Edition of `Spill Reporting Procedures Guide`
Bloomberg BNA has published the 2013 Edition of Spill Reporting Procedures Guide, the essential reference for control and treatment of accidental spills, ensuring full compliance with federal and state requirements. Compliance officers have relied on the Spill Reporting Procedures Guide since 1984 for information on how to deal quickly and effectively with accidental releases of chemicals and ...
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BNA Books` New 2011 Edition of `Spill Reporting Procedures Guide` Provides Complete Guidance for Control and Treatment of Accidental Spills
ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the 2011 Edition of Spill Reporting Procedures Guide, which has been an indispensable industry tool since 1984. The Guide, authored by Jeffrey J. Kimmel, a regulatory analyst, consultant, and former senior writer for BNA's ...
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Inaccurate data impeding reaction to oil and gas spills, say researchers
Regulators from four major oil and gas producing nations vary greatly in their transparency and environmental accountability when disclosing data on hydrocarbon spills in their national waters, according to new research. Oil and gas operators are required to report data on spillage as part of the regulatory process. Cumulative accidental spills from oil and gas extraction at sea significantly ...
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Washington Oil Spill Affects Puyallup River
TACOMA, Washington (ENS) - The Washington State Department of Ecology and other agencies are responding to an oil spill that occurred at early Sunday morning on the Puyallup River Bridge overpass in Tacoma. The spill was reported to Ecology by the state Department of Transportation, DOT, after a vehicle accident on the southbound I-5 Puyallup River bridge overpass. A semi-truck crashed and ...
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Australian oil spill report confirms need for long term environmental plan
An independent marine scientists' report into the environmental effects of the Montara oil spill says a systematic, long-term monitoring effort is the only way to ascertain the true impacts of the spill on the region's biodiversity. This supports the Government's actions to commission a long-term monitoring plan with the company - PTTEP. The report describes the results from a survey of marine ...
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North Dakota launching website to notify public of spills
It took nearly two weeks for North Dakota officials to tell the public about an autumn pipeline rupture that caused more than 20,000 barrels of crude to ooze across a northwestern wheat field. In response to extensive media coverage and criticism from environmental groups, the North Dakota Health Department will launch a website sometime this week that will enable the public to monitor reported ...
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Nigerian Fishermen Reject Shell`s $50 Million
Thousands of Nigerian fishermen have rejected an offer of $50 million from Royal Dutch Shell for "some of the largest oil spills in history," their British lawyers said Friday after winning a landmark court ruling. Shell already accepts responsibility for paying compensation and cleaning up spills caused by its own failures. But the London High Court decided that Shell can be held legally liable ...
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Magellan Pipeline Company to pay US$46,200 penalty for Iowa oil spill and facility response plan issue at Valley Center, Kan
Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P., has agreed to pay a US$46,200 civil penalty to the United States to resolve federal Clean Water Act violations related to a March oil spill at its pipeline terminal in Milford, Iowa, and an unrelated issue involving a May 2009 emergency response drill at its bulk oil storage facility near Wichita, Kan. Magellan Pipeline Company, of Tulsa, Okla., has certified ...
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New ‘bird-washing machine’ dramatically improves survival of birds caught in oil spills
Oil spills can decimate seabird populations. Some birds can be saved, if the oil is washed from their feathers in time; however, this long process is stressful for the birds and requires numerous volunteers. Researchers have now developed a ‘bird-washing machine’ which reduces the washing time from two hours to four minutes. When trialled on oiled birds rescued from the Caspian Sea ...
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Spill Center Opens Kenya Branch for Spill Response in East Africa
Spill Center, a North American leader in support services for companies involved in accidental spills of hazardous materials, fuel and other regulated substances, has opened a branch in Nairobi, Kenya, to serve clients in East Africa. Founded in Massachusetts over 20 years ago, Spill Center provides clients throughout the U.S. and Canada with contingency planning, emergency response coordination ...
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U.S. silver corporation pays EPA $87,000 to settle clean water act violations in idaho’s Silver Valley
U.S. Silver Corporation, owner and operator of the Coeur and Galena Mines and Mills near Wallace in Idaho’s “Silver Valley,” has agreed to pay $87,000 in penalties to settle federal Clean Water Act discharge violations. The agreement, captured in a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) between EPA and U.S. Silver, resolves the company’s National Pollution Discharge ...
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Locus Technologies Introduces the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Application to ePortal
Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in Web-based water, energy, and environmental software, announced today that it has expanded ePortal, its flagship product, to manage compliance, data and information for the EPA Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule. This introduces the industry's first enterprise level SPCC software deployed in the Cloud. The SPCC rule is part ...
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Transportation Spill Emergencies Subject of Free New White Paper
A transportation accident or emergency release requiring environmental cleanup requires fast action to contain the spill generator's costs and limit potential liability. Shippers and transporters who are not adequately prepared to handle spill emergencies quickly and comply with all reporting requirements can end up with major expenses for cleanup and disposal services, liability issues and steep ...
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Plains pipeline to spend $41 million to prevent oil spills across 10,000 miles of pipeline (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Justice Department announced that Plains All American Pipeline and several of its operating subsidiaries have agreed to spend approximately $41 million to upgrade 10,420 miles of crude oil pipeline operated in the United States. The settlement resolves Plains’ Clean Water Act violations for 10 crude oil spills in Texas, Louisiana, ...
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EPA leads effort to contain jet fuel spill on Sand Island
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a federal Clean Water Act order to ensure the continued cleanup of spilled jet fuel at a tank farm facility on the Sand Island Access Road in Honolulu. The order requires Airport Service Group International (ASIG), the facility operator, and Hawaii Fueling Facilities Corp., the facility owner, to proceed with cleanup work that will prevent ...
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5K-8K gallons of fuel oil spills into Ohio River
An estimated 5,000 to 8,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled into the Ohio River, leading authorities to shut off water intake valves for both the Ohio and Kentucky sides of the waterway to protect water supplies, and a 15-mile section of the river was closed to allow cleanup. The spill from a Duke Energy power plant in New Richmond, about 20 miles southeast of Cincinnati, happened around 11:15 ...
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Response by operator of broken oil pipeline faces scrutiny
Firefighters, emergency workers and officials from Plains All American Pipeline had gathered last week at a fire station preparing to train for the worst - an oil spill - when a 911 call came in reporting a noxious smell in the air at a nearby beach. The Santa Barbara County Fire Department rushed to the shoreline, where they discovered oil flowing across a beach and into the Pacific. What was ...
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SES calls for new oil pipeline safety measures
The Saskatchewan Environmental Society (SES) is asking the provincial government to adopt major new initiatives to ensure the safety of oil pipelines in Saskatchewan. These initiatives would build upon and go far beyond the amendments to the provincial Pipelines Act announced last week by Hon. Dustin Duncan, Minister of Energy and Resources. SES is also making several proposals it views as ...
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EPA Reports on Dioxin Quantities Emitted During Deepwater Horizon BP Oil Spill
This week, the EPA released two peer reviewed reports concerning dioxins emitted during the controlled burns of oil during the Deepwater Horizon BP spill. The reports found that while small amounts of dioxins were created by the burns, the levels that workers and residents would have been exposed to were below EPA’s levels of concern. Controlled burning of oil on the surface of the ocean ...
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`Significant` oil spill closes United States ship channel
No timetable has been set to reopen a major U.S. shipping channel after nearly 170,000 gallons of tar-like oil spilled into the Texas waterway, but more help was being called in Monday to contain the spill and protect important shorebird habitat. A barge carrying about 900,000 gallons of the heavy oil collided with a ship Saturday in the busy Houston Ship Channel, spilling as much as a fifth of ...
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