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Oil spill covers geese, ducks in Utah
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 12th, 2010
Associated Press: A leaked pipeline caused oil to spill into a Salt Lake City creek Saturday, coating geese and ducks and closing a park, officials said. An estimated 400 to 500 barrels of oil spewed into Red Butte Creek before crews capped the leak site. Nearly 50 gallons of crude oil per minute initially had spilled into the creek, according to Scott Freitag, a Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman. "Our real concern is keeping people safe, and keeping the oil from reaching the Great Salt ...
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United Kingdom: Surfers Against Sewage: the muck stops here
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 12th, 2010
Guardian: Activists who form a campaign group usually have a noble desire to hand humanity a more progressive operating code. Humanity may or may not listen. Greenpeace's origins lie in the determination of a core group of activists to "bear witness" to nuclear testing beneath the island of Amchitka; Amnesty International's genesis was in lawyer Peter Benenson's article on two forgotten Portuguese prisoners, published in this very newspaper. The conception of Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), 20 ...
Europe, US to see snowy, cold winters
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 12th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: Europe, North America and east Asia can expect more cold, moist and snowy winters such as the one just passed, a top scientist said Friday. While it may seem counter-intuitive, warmer Arctic climes caused by climate change influence air pressure at the North Pole, shifting wind patterns in such a way as to boost cooling over adjacent swathes of the planet. "Cold and snowy winters will be the rule rather than the exception," said James Overland of the US National Oceanic and ...
Florida Skips Offshore Oil Binge but Still Pays for It
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 12th, 2010
New York Times: When rigs first started drilling for oil off Louisiana's coast in the 1940s, Floridians scanned their shoreline, with its resorts and talcum-white beaches, and said, No thanks. Go ahead and drill, they told other Gulf Coast states; we'll stick with tourism. Now that invisible wall separating Florida from its neighbors has been breached. The spreading BP oil spill has already reached the Panhandle, and if it rides currents to the renowned reefs and fishing holes on both Florida ...
Tide of anger may turn an ecological tragedy into a political nightmare
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 12th, 2010
Guardian: The anger is palpable in the southern Louisiana towns where livelihoods are being slowly and inexorably choked by oil. Pickup trucks with "BP sucks" scrawled on their panels bounce along the roads. Anti-BP rallies are planned this weekend in communities too small to rate a petrol station but which now sport giant billboards advertising law firms touting for people who want to sue the oil giant for compensation. Locals in Plaquemines, a long spit of marshy land between the Gulf of Mexico and ...