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  1. Cook Inlet oil spill prompts multi-agency response

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – A multi-agency response is underway in the Cook Inlet after a pilot spotted an oil spill Monday afternoon. The pilot, who asked to remain anonymous, reported the sighting to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) at appr…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #alaska #cookinlet #disaster #oilspill #response
    diningandcooking.com/2784897/c

  2. "The California Coastal Commission unanimously objected [Aug13] to an #oil company’s proposal to frack 16 offshore wells at Platform Gilda in the Santa Barbara Channel. The commission cited #OilSpill risk and aging infrastructure as grounds for its objection. This is the first #fracking proposal off the #California coast in more than a decade.” edhat.com/news/coastal-commiss #FossilFuels #ClimateAction #SaveOurShores

  3. Horrifying images of the oil spill in Oman that reached Qeshm and threatening all the islands in Persian Gulf and strait of Hormuz.

    This stupid war is damaging and destroying the fragile unique environment of Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman.

    Video on telegram:
    t.me/newsvideofa/9550

    #PersianGulf #OilSpill #Oman #Qeshm #Environment #StraitofHormuz #Nature #WarOnIran #Catastrophe

  4. 🛢️ Oh joy, another oil slick graces the pristine Iranian coast—clearly Mother Nature needed a new moisturizer! 🙃 The ship strike is just a cherry on top of this black gold sundae. 🌊 Bravo, #humanity, for this new level of "progress"! 🎉
    bbc.com/news/articles/cr7kpdkg #oilspill #environmentalimpact #coastalpollution #progress #HackerNews #ngated

  5. Terrível! Um enorme petroleiro da frota paralela da Rússia encalhou na costa de Omã, Golfo Pérsico, há semanas. Imagens de satélite já mostram uma mancha de óleo que cobre quase 800 quilômetros quadrados.

    O navio transporta 110 mil toneladas de petróleo bruto e há o risco de ele se partir ao meio.

    #oilspill #Oman #Russia #pollution
    taz.de/Arabischer-Golf/!620343

  6. #Oman, in its first public disclosure on the #environmental impact, said on ​Monday it was seeking to tackle the #OilSpill near the #HallaniyatIslands.

    Oman's Sultan Haitham bin ​Tarik issued a royal decree last year creating a #NatureReserve around the islands, an area that is home to #wildlife including #ArabianSea #HumpbackWhales & #SocotraCormorants.

    #EcologicalDisaster #MarineLife #seabirds #ecosystems

  7. More oil pipelines to B.C. coast ➕ oil tanker traffic, adds negative repercussions:
    ➡️more underwater & air pollution
    ➡️potential devastating #oilspill on generations' worth of marine pop.
    ➡️#ClimateChange + warming oceans

    B.C. estuary lost approximately 85% of salmon habitat due to #fossilfuel development and infrastructure, and warming ocean

    Chinook salmon is main food source of the southern resident killer whales:

    🚨only 75 #orcas remain in the world

    #Cdnpoli

    cbc.ca/news/politics/southern-

  8. Burning Oil Spills With Fire Whirls

    Though they are relatively infrequent, large marine oil spills, like 2010’s Deepwater Horizon, are devastating and incredibly difficult to clean up. In many locations, the “best” option for responding to such disasters is burning off the oil before it can absorb enough water to sink. But these floating fires leave behind unburned oil and produce soot. To enhance the burn, researchers are looking at the possibility of triggering large-scale fire whirls.

    Often seen in wildfires, these fire vortices are intense and localized. Researchers made a more than 5-meter tall version in these experiments by arranging three walls that spun up the in-flowing air. The fire whirl sat above a pool of water topped in a layer of oil that served as the whirl’s fuel.

    Within the whirl, the fire’s burn rate was 40% higher than a typical pool fire, and soot production was 40% lower–showing that fire whirls can burn cleaner. But the whirls are more finicky to start and maintain. It’s not yet clear whether such intense whirls are possible in the chaotic conditions on the ocean. (Research and image credit: W. Cui et al.; via Eos)

    #combustion #fireTornado #fireWhirl #fluidDynamics #oilSpill #physics #pollution #science
  9. The satellite image that appears the center of this controversy could be showing oil, or current convergence, or plankton blooms in the Gulf of Paria.

    The truth could be had easily enough. Seems possible this could be regional politics or actual hydrocarbons. The two are never mutually exclusive.

    guardian.co.tt/news/oil-spill-

    #trinidadandtobago #venezuela #oilspill #gulfofparia

  10. A Texas company has agreed to pay more than $12 million in the first portion of a “multi-part settlement” after a grounded tugboat spilled about 110,000 litres of pollutants in central coast waters in 2016.

    “While this first settlement is an important step, it does not close this chapter (…). The Nation remains committed to seeking accountability, supporting healing, and protecting the waters, lands, and way of life that are central to the Nation.”

    vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/

    #Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #NathanEStewart #OilSpill #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #ClimateCrisis

  11. Hmm, LA is just the headquarters for environmental disasters this weekend.

    LA Times: Oil-covered birds rescued after pipeline rupture sends crude into L.A. River

    latimes.com/california/story/2

    #oilspill #LosAngeles

  12. Four tankers were apparently struck or disabled by the U.S. forces near Iran’s Jask area.

    Satellite imagery shows one tanker on fire and extensive oil spills, including leaks from two tankers, with another spill detected about 7.4 kilometers from the anchorage site.

    Trump's war is causing the biggest environmental disaster in modern history.

    This is so infuriating.

    #TankerWars #PersianGulf #Environment #OilSpill #JaskIsland q#StraitOfHormuz #USblockade #CeasefireTalks #WarOnIran #EpsteinWar #Israel #WestAsia #Iran #USpol #Politics

  13. 🛢️🌑 Satellites viennent de repérer une marée noire géante près du hub pétrolier de Kharg, en Iran, en plein blocus naval US. Pendant qu’on joue à la guerre de l’énergie, le Golfe persique se transforme en poubelle toxique. Kharg n’est plus seulement un choke point géopolitique, c’est un Tchernobyl pétrolier au ralenti.

    #Kharg #Iran #OilSpill #PersianGulf #EnergyCrisis #Geopolitics #ClimateCrisis #BreakingNews #OPEP #Trump

    Source : Reuters / images satellites Sentinel-2 via EnergyNews & NYT

  14. "Imperial Oil says there have been no reported effects to wildlife or open waterbodies from a pipeline leak of crude bitumen in eastern Alberta."

    "Reported." 🤔

    Wildlife and water bodies have not reported in...I guess.

    "843,000 litres of fluid leaked from the pipeline, with about 172,000 litres of it being crude bitumen and 671,000 litres produced water. Produced water can be contaminated with salt, oil or other substances."

    Meanwhile, Cold Lake First Nations is advising community members to avoid the area. The company has not done that, the community is keeping itself safe. Posted on CLFN Facebook.

    "Snow fencing has also been placed around the perimeter to restrict wildlife access and act as a bird deterrent, it (Imperial) said."

    "Snow fencing." 🤣

    Imperial did not report the leak on its website or on its locally-focused Cold Lake operations Facebook page.

    #ableg #oilspill #water #Indigenous

    globalnews.ca/news/11805271/oi

  15. The many costs of war. An oil slick from an Iranian ship destroyed by the US is moving toward the Hara Biosphere, a mangrove swamp that is home to migrating birds, endangered turtles, and crustaceans. Due to continued bombing in the region no clean up has begun yet.
    #oilspill
    #iran
    #ecologicaldisaster

    theguardian.com/environment/20