Browse > Home / News / Israeli officials raid Greek ship suspected of tar spill on Israeli beaches February 28, 2021 by Aryeh Savir – TPS Read on for article Israeli officials from the Ministry of Environmental Protection boarded a ship docked in Greece that is suspected of being responsible for dumping tar into the […]
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Israeli officials raid Greek ship suspected of tar spill on Israeli beaches
Potential new oil spill identified off the coast of Israel
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Tar covering Israel’s beaches doesn’t bode well for its handling of the next major oil spill
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Israel scrambles to save animals hurt in massive tar spill
Browse > Home / News / Israel scrambles to save animals hurt in massive tar spill February 25, 2021 by Read on for article A catastrophic tar spill washing up along Israel’s entire Mediterranean coast may be the worst environmental disaster in Israeli history. Tar-coated sea turtles on a beach in Israel, Photo courtesy […]
Israeli government allocates $13.8 million to oil-spill cleanup
Browse > Home / News / Israeli government allocates $13.8 million to oil-spill cleanup February 25, 2021 by JNS Read on for article Israel’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved the allocation of 45 million shekels ($13.8 million) to help deal with a massive oil spill that has polluted some 100 miles of Israel’s coast. Approximately $20,000 […]
Israel Closes Mediterranean Beaches After Oil Spill Devastates Coast
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel closed all its Mediterranean beaches until further notice on Sunday, days after an offshore oil spill deposited tons of tar across more than 100 miles of coastline in what officials are calling one of the country’s worst ecological disasters. Activists began reporting globs of black tar on Israel’s coast last week […]
Oil spill off Israel’s coast is its worst maritime pollution in decades
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Decades After The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Local Dolphins Are Still Suffering
An oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana killed eleven workers on 20 April 2010. The world then watched helplessly as BP’s oil gushed out into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days, killing untold millions of marine animals. Dolphins that survived one of the worst environmental disasters ever, still appear to be suffering the […]
Energy giant Shell liable for Nigeria oil spill, Dutch court rules
A Dutch court has ordered Shell’s local subsidiary in Nigeria to compensate four farmers whose land was damaged by oil leaks in 2004 and 2005. The appeals court in The Hague said Shell Nigeria was responsible for multiple cases of oil pollution in the long-running case, a test of how far Netherlands-based multinational companies are […]
Mauritius is racing against time to reduce oil spill damage
Local and foreign volunteer support forces, international organisations and other countries are helping Mauritius race against time to handle a serious oil spill caused by a Japanese freighter that ran aground on the high seas late last month. The MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned bulk carrier, which struck a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius […]
Residents and environmental workers in Mauritius race to contain oil spill and protect coastline
Environmental activists and residents of Mauritius worked to try to reduce the damage from an oil spill after a ship ran aground on a coral reef. The Indian Ocean island’s prime minister declared a state of emergency and appealed for international help. One ton of oil from the Japanese ship’s four tons has leaked into […]
Deadly Oil Spill Leaves Indonesian Bay ‘Like a Gas Station’
Indonesia has declared a state of emergency after a large oil spill ignited and killed at least four people in the port city of Balikpapan off the island of Borneo over the weekend. The blaze is now under control but the oil continues to spread. According to BBC News, the slick currently covers an area of […]
The cost of clean-up: Oil spill responders in the Gulf of Mexico exposed to chemical dispersants now have health issues
(Natural News) Cleaning up oil spills is always a dirty and dangerous job, but a new study revealed its hidden health cost. According to Environmental Health Perspectives, two of the chemical dispersants used to clear up the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 have been linked to numerous health problems reported by oil spill response […]
East China Sea: Worst Tanker Oil Spill in Decades
East China Sea: Worst Tanker Oil Spill in Decades January 26th, 2018 Via: Reuters: The worst tanker oil spill in decades is unfolding across hundreds of miles of the East China Sea after an Iranian oil tanker carrying more than 100,000 tonnes of toxic […]
Operator of Keystone Pipeline quietly cleaning up spill of 210,000 gallons of oil from largest-ever leak in South Dakota
(Natural News) As many environmentalists and local Native American tribes feared, a massive leak of some 210,000 gallons, or about 5,000 barrels, of oil has occurred along a section of the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota, making it the largest-ever spill. The company quietly announced via a November 16 tweet that it is “currently responding […]
The big 2010 oil spill killed aquatic life and ecosystems; now it’s killing the cleanup crew
(Natural News) The dispersants used during the cleanup of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill have made the cleanup workers sick. This was the conclusion that federal scientists came to in their study that was published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The report is a part of the ongoing Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) study being spearheaded […]
Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill And The Corexit Oil Dispersant Health Problems Confirmed
By Catherine J. Frompovich Back on April 20, 2010, a major environmental catastrophe occurred in the Gulf of Mexico when the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded and 4.9 million barrels of crude spilled into the Gulf waters creating a problem that was not ‘fixed’ until July 10, 2010 when the rig finally […]
Total’s Report On Amazon Reef Drilling Reveals Oil Spill Risk To Nearby Countries
The controversial offshore oil project in the mouth of the Amazon river could pose significant spill risk to nearby countries, according to documents from drilling giant Total. The findings have led to the company to disown key parts of its own Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). In a statement to Energydesk, Total said: “The countries and numbers […]
BP’s Solution To Amazon Reef Spill Is A Coral Killing Chemical
BP plans to use chemicals that kill off coral larvae in the event of an oil spill near a unique coral reef in the mouth of the Amazon river. The British oil giant intends to drill in the region in August 2018. The company’s environmental impact assessment (EIA), submitted to the Brazilian authorities for the project, submitted […]
Trump Appoints BP Oil Spill Lawyer As DOJ Environmental Attorney
Fire boat response crews spray water on the burning remnants of BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 21, 2010. (AP/US Coast Guard) United States President Donald Trump appointed Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a lawyer who has previously represented British Petroleum (BP), to a top environmental and natural resource law position in the Department of Justice, […]