TankerTrackers reporting a possible #OilSpill near #Malaysia: We've noticed a 60km long spill off the coast of Kuantan, Malaysia in today's satellite imagery. Based on the two imagery sources we've compared against (taken only 3 minutes apart), the spill may have reached shore 5 hours ago.
Location of the oil spill of Huntington Beach (using Sentinel-2 satellite) -- filtered to show the white spots on the left on the surface of the ocean. #oilspill#HuntingtonCeach
Hmm, not sure who is responding, but here's the nearest ship... Article says the spill near Emmy and Eva, need to go find those charts... #Mako#HuntingtonBeach#oilspill
It should have been on the front pages, but due to global events, it has been overlooked.
A large oil spill near the #Caribbean island of Tobago, caused by an abandoned vessel on Feb 7, 2024, triggered a massive clean-up effort as the spill affected approximately 15 kilometers of Tobago's coastline, damaging a reef and potentially contaminating the island's fish and food supply.
The ecological impact is still unknown.
An overturned vessel has caused a huge oil spill along Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline, in what the Caribbean country’s prime minister described as a “national emergency” on Sunday. The spill occurred on February 7 off the southern shores of the Tobago Island, according to the country’s Office of Disaster Preparedness...
Study: chemical dispersants made BP oil spill worse. “..dispersants exert a more profound impact on the regulation of microbial communities than the oil spill itself…sunlight played a crucial role in intensifying dispersant toxicity.” @StirUni#oilspill
Seal Rocks buoy at the entrance to Prince William Sound is the only source of site-specific weather data for CG and oil laden tankers entering the Gulf of Alaska. It's been broken and won't be fixed until spring 2024. Good setup for another Exxon Valdez. #alaska#OilSpill#WhoNeedsInfrastructure
Spill of 1,200 barrels of crude blight Ecuadoran beach: A leak at an oil terminal spilled at least 1,200 barrels of crude onto a beach popular with tourists in northwest Ecuador, near the border with Colombia, officials said Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-barrels-crude-blight-ecuadoran-beach.html
Alaska is facing a new oil spill threat, and the company behind it is notorious for its secrecy and environmental violations. The company, Hilcorp, owns a pipeline that runs under the Prince William Sound, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster site. The old and corroded pipeline could leak millions of gallons of oil into the pristine waters.
An oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river. It's upended livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured environmental pollution caused by the oil industry.
Mysterious oil spill sparks national emergency in Trinidad and Tobago (edition.cnn.com)
An overturned vessel has caused a huge oil spill along Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline, in what the Caribbean country’s prime minister described as a “national emergency” on Sunday. The spill occurred on February 7 off the southern shores of the Tobago Island, according to the country’s Office of Disaster Preparedness...
Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria (apnews.com)
An oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river. It's upended livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured environmental pollution caused by the oil industry.