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...required part of Shell's safety equipment. The company took it upon itself to construct the barge as part of a larger oil spill response plan, a plan that has already been approved by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement...
...proposed. BOEMRE, in evaluating various aspects of Shell's plan, said in its decision that while "large and very large oil spills could result in impacts that would rise to the level of significance, the probability of such an occurrence is so...
...information available." The revisions, Bromwich said, analyze potential environmental effects of a hypothetical "very large oil spill" scenario. BOEMRE also carefully reviewed a report by the U.S. Geological Survey in June that identified data...
...of Komi, where Usinsk lies 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, became the scene of Russia's largest oil spill when an estimated 100,000 tons splashed from an aging pipeline.It killed plants and animals, and polluted up...
...natural gas development, the relevance of the missing information, and the environmental impacts of a hypothetical large oil spill.By affirming the 2008 lease sale, Grafe said, the Obama administration has adopted the mistakes of the previous...
...cost to do so.The agency says it has now completed that analysis, along with additional consideration of how a large oil spill might affect the Arctic environment.Some might have hoped the agency would conclude the information gaps were so...
...emergency shutdown in May. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.'s internal review blamed the May 25 accident - the third-largest oil spill in the pipeline's history - on a technical glitch, potential design failures and a series of human mistakes...
...spilled into the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. According to one Coast Guard analysis, this may be the largest oil spill into U.S. marine waters in the past 15 years. Already the spill has killed thousands of seabirds and other marine...
...attributable to the Exxon Valdez oil spill," Alaska Attorney General David Marquez said Thursday. The nation's largest oil spill emptied 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in 1989, killing hundreds of thousands of birds...
...was to correct problems and report its progress. The agency ordered the testing two weeks after BP discovered the largest oil spill in North Slope history, a leak of an estimated 201,000 gallons onto the tundra from a 34-inch pipeline in Prudhoe...