oil spills
The Canadian Government Wants You to Believe They Have Oil Spills Under Control
The feds have commissioned a new booklet to help ease concerns about oil spills and environmental apocalypses.
VICE News Capsule - Thursday, January 8
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The Magnetic Wand That Cleans Oil Spills
Oil spills are an unavoidable part of our future on this planet, but we could at least clean them up better.
There's a Slow Motion Oil Spill Underway at Every Gas Station in the Nation
Every time a drop of gasoline dribbles to the ground when you fill up your tank, you're contributing to a slow-motion oil spill.
Indigenous Canadians Are Blockading a Mine to Protest Pollution
A group of Tahltan First Nation elders have blocked access to the mine for the second time in two months over concerns that it will dump toxic sludge into a salmon habitat.
The Mount Polley Tailings Pond Disaster Has Sparked a First Nation Blockade
After a man-made lake full of mining waste collapsed last week, BC Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett compared the disaster to an avalanche.
The Mount Polley Tailings Pond Disaster Has Sparked a First Nation Blockade
The collapse of a man-made lake full of mining waste in BC last week sparked outrage among environmentalists the world over. Now a First Nations group in a town 12 hours north has established a blockade at a separate mining development owned by the...
Exxon Valdez Oil Is Still Polluting the Prince William Sound 25 Years Later
The found oil has barely degraded in a quarter century.
Did Enbridge Use Toxic Chemicals to Clean Up Their Oil Spill in Kalamazoo?
Three and a half years ago, an oil pipeline spilled 843,000 gallons of tar sands bitumen into the Kalamazoo River, the largest spill of its kind in American history. The clean-up effort has cost over a billion dollars, but is it doing more harm than...
The US and Canada Are Officially Preparing for the Inevitable Oil Spills in the Arctic
As global warming melts the Northwest Passage, it's only a matter of time before we start spilling oil all over it.
Oil Companies Are Quietly Fracking the Seabed Off the California Coast
And they've been doing it behind the state's back.
Arkansas's Attorney General Will Investigate the Suburban Exxon Spill
McDaniel has already told Exxon to hand over all documents from its internal investigation, as well as all maintenance and inspection reports on the pipeline.