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The Burning Sea review – Norwegian oil-spill thriller aims to avert disaster
Mildly eco-catastrophising offering, in which pasty boiler-suited characters try to cope with liquid disaster The Norwegian production company that made contemporary disaster films The Wave, fr...
Largest oil and gas producers made close to $100bn in first quarter of 2022
Shell made $9.1bn in profit, almost three times what it made in the same period last year, while Exxon raked in $8.8bn The tumult of war and climate breakdown has proved lucrative for the world...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/13/oil-gas-producers-first-quarter-2022-profits
‘We can’t eat a new road’: Guyanese voice fears over true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza
Multibillion-dollar deal promising to lift country out of poverty may be false dawn with dire impact on climate, warn campaigners Annette Arjoon is not anti-oil. The marine conservationist call...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/exxon-oil-deal-guyana-climate
UN leads £65m plan to stop huge oil spill off Yemen during first ceasefire in six years
Decrepit tanker used for storage at risk of creating a disaster worse than Exxon Valdez in 1989 The UN is to stage a rare donor conference on Wednesday in a bid to raise the $80m (£65m) necess...
More than 100 killed at Nigerian illegal oil refinery blast
Authorities say victims ‘burnt beyond recognition’ in explosion at bunkering site in Imo state More than 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot on...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/23/more-than-100-killed-at-nigerian-oil-refinery-blast
Revealed: ships may dump oil up to 3,000 times a year in Europe’s waters
Collaborative investigation shows ships regularly discharge ‘bilge’ water illegally instead of treating it, with toxic effect on marine life Up to 3,000 cases of oil dumped by commercial sh...
Oil spill at sea: who will pay for Peru’s worst environmental disaster?
As the state, the refinery and tanker owners play the blame game, damage to the region’s ecosystems continues to spread More than a month after Peru’s worst ever environmental disaster on i...
Dolphins hit by Deepwater Horizon spill at risk from new drilling and river plan
Up to 45% of Barataria Bay’s dolphins died after 2010. Now they face the threat of new drilling and a Mississippi River scheme Nearly 80% of dolphins exposed to oil in the Deepwater Horizon d...
North Wales coast is monitored after oil pipeline spillage
Conwy to Douglas pipeline ‘was shut immediately’ after the hydrocarbon release, reported on Monday Authorities are monitoring parts of the north Wales coast for an oil slick after hydrocarb...
Beach in Thailand declared disaster area after oil pipeline leak
Hundreds of oil company workers and navy personnel deployed in clean-up of Mae Ramphueng shoreline A beach in eastern Thailand has been declared a disaster area as oil leaking from an underwate...
Life after Deepwater Horizon: the hidden toll of surviving disaster on an oil rig – podcast
When the drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in 2010, Stephen Stone escaped with his life. But in the years that followed, he came to feel deeply betrayed by the industry he had once...
Peru seeks compensation after oil spill devastates marine life – video
Peru has demanded compensation from the Spanish oil firm Repsol after freak waves caused by a volcanic eruption near Tonga caused a disastrous oil spill. The spill happened in an area rich in m...
Peru demands compensation for disastrous oil spill caused by Tonga volcano
Volcanic eruption caused spill, described as the worst ecological disaster to hit country in recent history, at refineries operated by Spanish oil giant Repsol Peru has demanded compensation fr...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/peru-spain-repsol-disastrous-oil-spill
‘Very hard life now’: 12 years after the Montara oil spill, Indonesians are still fighting to be heard
The spill in the Timor Sea was one of Australia’s worst environmental disasters, with thousands of seaweed farmers claiming it destroyed their livelihoods The oil came without warning. One ...
Pipeline spilled 300,000 gallons of fuel near New Orleans last month, records show
Ruptured line operated by Collins Pipeline Co was highly corroded but repairs were delayed A severely corroded pipeline ruptured and spilled more than 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel just outsid...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/12/louisiana-pipeline-oil-spill-new-orleans
Life after Deepwater Horizon: the hidden toll of surviving disaster on an oil rig
When the drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in 2010, Stephen Stone escaped with his life. But in the years that followed, he came to feel deeply betrayed by the industry he had once...
Louisiana energy firm to pay millions following oil spill that began 17 years ago
Taylor Energy to pay more than $43m in clean-up costs, penalties and damage, and transfer $432m clean-up fund America’s longest running oil spill dispute is close to a resolution after a Loui...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/24/louisiana-taylor-energy-to-pay-millions-oil-spill
Texas oil company charged in massive spill off southern California coast
Prosecutors say company repeatedly failed to act on alarms that alerted workers to pipeline rupture A Houston-based oil company and two subsidiaries have been charged over a massive oil spill ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/16/california-oil-spill-texas-company-charged
‘Gushing oil and roaring fires’: 30 years on Kuwait is still scarred by catastrophic pollution
Oilwells set alight by Iraqi forces in 1991 were put out within months, but insidious pollution still mars the desert For 10 months in Kuwait, everything was upside down. Daytime was full of da...
Oil spills, plastic, rising seas: artists invoke climate breakdown in San Francisco exhibition – in pictures
Lands End, a new exhibition of international artists staged at the site of a historic San Francisco restaurant , showcases the fragility of the planet through photography, film and found objects...