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  • Exxon: Ruptured pipeline in Yellowstone River carried tar sands crude

    Ken Cole

    How bad is this going to get? Exxon: Ruptured pipeline carried tar sands crude. Laura Zuckerman – Reuters

  • Oil pipeline ruptures. Massive pollution of Yellowstone River

    Ralph Maughan

    ExxonMobil pipeline under the Yellowstone River releases 30,000 – 50,000 gallons of crude into world famous river- It’s another one of those things they claimed was too unlikely to worry about. Now there is a large oil slick drifting down the Yellowstone River toward the Missouri, ruining riverside property, and polluting not just the river…

  • Another Gulf Oil Well goes boom . . . now has mile long slick

    Ralph Maughan

    No one dead this time; relatively shallow water- This well was in production, unlike the Deepwater Horizon, BP disaster.  It tells me that major oil pollution might have become a permanent feature of the Gulf of Mexico. Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion. By Alan Levin and Julie Schmit, USA Today – – –…

  • U.S. appeals court rejects moratorium on deepwater drilling in Gulf

    Ralph Maughan

    Documents shows all judges had ties to the oil industry- So do we have a problem with the neutrality of our federal courts?  The judge of the original jurisdiction in Louisiana’s federal district court who rejected the moratorium was loaded down with oil and gas stocks too. Fortunately, the Administration said the Interior Department would…

  • The latest on oil and gas atrocities in the Gulf of Mexico

    Ralph Maughan

    27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells, many probably leaking and more capable- Gov’t and oil companies ignore them- Gulf Awash In 27,000 Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells. By Jeff Donn and Mitch Weiss. Associated Press (reproduced in the Huffington Post) I think many Americans are trying to ignore this ongoing disaster, but it will continue. …

  • Gulf oil spill threatens birds migrating south from Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    The effects of the continuing oil gusher have been localized so far. It will not remain that way- This from the Missoulian. Gulf oil spill threatens birds migrating south from Montana. By Rob Chaney It seems like the Texas coast is the most important for migrating birds from Montana. Plans are being made to try…

  • Oil spotted in Great Salt Lake wetlands

    Ralph Maughan

    Chevron’s broken pipeline has not been contained completely in the Jordan River at SLC- More bad news about the Utah “oil spill.” Oil spotted in Great Salt Lake wetlands. By Judy Fahys. The Salt Lake Tribune

  • BP oil spill could spread to Atlantic Ocean

    Ralph Maughan

    As the slick is posed to hit western Florida coast, a model predicts a much wider spread- BP oil spill could spread to Atlantic Ocean. Christian Science Monitor. This comes amid predictions that the gusher won’t be stopped until relief wells intersect the oil reservoir in August.  Even then, relief wells sometimes fail to work.…

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