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The fuel eventually made its way into the Jones Cove Branch. The active spill was stopped at 9:10 p.m., less than two hours after it was reported by a 911 caller who said they saw it coming down ...
When it arrived in Commencement Bay, tug crews noticed fuel had “splashed out” of the tanks and was in the water. Ecology fines barge owner $38,500 for this Salish Sea fuel spill Skip to main ...
In January and February 1969, in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara, in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills. It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California.
The overturned tanker causes two days of road closures and is linked to fish deaths nearby.
This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons , 256 Imperial gallons , 7.33 barrels , or 1165 litres .
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian oil tanker carrying thousands of tonnes of oil products split apart during a heavy storm on Sunday, spilling oil into the Kerch Strait, while another tanker was also in ...
Volgoneft-139 was carrying 4,800 tonnes of fuel oil when she anchored in the Kerch Strait in a storm in November 2007. [1] [2] She split in two, spilling from 1,300 to 1,600 tonnes of oil, resulting in "tens of kilometres" of pollution on both sides of the Kerch Strait. [1] [2] [3] 13 crew members were rescued, and four other ships sank in the ...
Two Russian tankers carrying thousands of tons of fuel were badly damaged in stormy weather near the Black Sea over the weekend, leading to an oil spill, according to Russian state media.. The ...