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He made his first prominent TV appearances after publishing a report on the episode. [20] He went on to be a leading environmental and nature campaigner for decades. In 1967 French singer Serge Gainsbourg wrote a song called "Torrey Canyon", about the disaster, which appears on the B-side of his single "Comic Strip" and on his 1968 album ...
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]
Some of the spilled product reached Summit Creek. While there were efforts to keep the leaked product from reaching Donner Lake, the spill size of this leak was listed as zero in the report given to PHMSA. [193] [194] May 9 – A leak was detected on a 12-inch pipeline near Mount Morris, Illinois. Between 125,000 and 130,000 US gallons (490,000 ...
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).
A boat crash that left eight people injured Saturday at the Lake of the Ozarks was the latest incident this summer to serve as a reminder of safety concerns at the popular vacation destination.
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.
April 17 – Deepwater Horizon completes its drilling and the well is being prepared to be cemented so that another rig will retrieve the oil. The blowout preventer is tested and found to be "functional." [20] Gagliano now reports that using only 6 centralizers "would likely produce channeling and a failure of the cement job." [11]
A man is in critical condition after he was injured in an accident involving a boat propeller at Eagle Mountain Lake over the weekend, according to officials with Texas Parks and Wildlife.