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CBC.caPipeline break spills crude oil into Strathcona County creekCBC.caFour energy companies are cleaning up crude oil that spilled into an unnamed creek in Strathcona County on Saturday. The creek, near 17th Street and Baseline Road, flows directly into
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KFGONorth Dakota oil spill 3 times larger than first estimatedABC NewsFILE - This Dec. 10, 2016, file photo, provided by the North Dakota Department of Health shows an oil spill from the Belle Fourche Pipeline that was discovered Dec. 5, 2016 in Ash Coulee
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New York TimesUS, in Reversal, Issues Permit for Keystone Oil PipelineNew York TimesThe Trump administration announced Friday that it would issue a permit for construction of the Keystone oil pipeline, a long-disputed project that would link producers in C
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Geologist: Shell concealing hazards from Nigerian oil spillsABC NewsRoyal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary "fiercely opposed" environmental testing and is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a sta
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CBC.caCanadian researchers denied samples of oil spill dispersant by US companyCBC.caCanada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it will try again to secure samples of an oil spill dispersant for testing by government-funded researchers after the
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Good News NetworkSawdust Reinvented into Super Sponge for Oil SpillsGood News NetworkLowly sawdust, the waste that's sometimes tossed onto home garage floors to soak up oil spilled by amateur mechanics, could receive some new-found respect. Researchers
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ABC NewsMassive 2013 Oil Spill in North Dakota Still Not Cleaned UpABC NewsFILE - This Oct. 11, 2013 file photo shows cleanup at the site of a Tesoro Corp. pipeline break that spilled more than 20,000 barrels of oil into a Tioga, N.D., wheat field. The mas
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Treated Sawdust May Help Sop up, Burn off Arctic Oil SpillsABC NewsResearchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are testing chemically modified wood flour to determine whether it can enhance burning of crude oil after
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ABC OnlineNorth Dakota Oil Spill Raises Questions About SafetyABC NewsThe discovery of an oil pipeline spill earlier this month in western North Dakota has drawn heightened attention because of the battle over the Dakota Access oil pipeline being built acr
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CNNNorth Dakota Says Crude Oil Spilled into WaterwayWall Street JournalNorth Dakota regulators said Tuesday that nearly 75% of an estimated 4,200 barrels of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline has flowed into a creek, contaminating 5.4 miles of the water
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