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The Torrey Canyon oil spill was one of the world's most serious oil spills.The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon ran aground on rocks off the south-west coast of the United Kingdom in 1967, spilling an estimated 25–36 million gallons (94–164 million litres) of crude oil. [1]
October 15, 2017 - One worker was missing & presumed dead, after a drilling rig explosion & fire on Lake Pontchartrain. 7 other workers were injured. [67] July 29, 2018 - A flare for an ethylene pipeline spread to the tower it was mounted on in Plaquemine. [68] June 3, 2023 - Lightning caused a tank fire in Lake Charles, Louisiana. [69]
Lake Palourde is home to the Victor Guarisco Lake End Park [5] and the 9.6-acre (3.9 ha) Brownell Memorial Park & Carillon Tower. The 106-foot (32 m) tower has 61 bronze bells, cast in the Netherlands, that represents five octaves of range and weight from 18 to 4,730 pounds (8.2 to 2,145.5 kg).
The Lake of the Ozarks is often listed as one of the most dangerous lakes in the country for boating and drowning accidents. U.S. Coast Guard statistics recorded 61 boating accidents on the lake ...
Taken Oct. 13, 2022, near the Pit River Bridge, the photo shows the lake when it was 32% full. Another photo, taken in the same area on May 9, shows the results of two wet winters.
The body of the Shelby County, Illinois coroner was found Friday after an apparent hunting accident.. According to a release from the central Illinois county’s sheriff’s department, deputies ...
January 2 – Crude oil leaked from a fractured 22-inch pipeline, at a levee crossing, in Berwick, Louisiana.At 9:54 a.m., the crude oil ignited. One person was killed, one person was injured, and six homes were either destroyed, or, damaged.
Salazar against the 6-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf waters of 500 feet (150 m) or more. Feldman in his ruling says Interior Department failed to provide adequate reasoning and that the moratorium seems to assume that because one rig failed, all companies and rigs doing deepwater drilling pose an imminent danger.