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  • 2
    Jul
    2011
    11:04pm, EDT

    ExxonMobil pipe spills oil into Yellowstone River

    Larry Mayer / The Billings Gazette via AP

    Oil swirls in a flooded gravel pit in Lockwood, Mont., after a pipeline break early Saturday, July 2. The ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River near Billings in south-central Montana ruptured and dumped an unknown amount of oil into the waterway, prompting temporary evacuations along the river.

    Read the full story here.

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  • 17
    May
    2011
    3:19pm, EDT

    Jan Underwood / Dayton Daily News via AP

    A tractor-trailer flipped onto its side on northbound I-75 in West Carrollton near Dayton, Ohio Tuesday, May 17, 2011 injuring the driver and spilling a load of Hunts tomato sauce all over the highway. The highway was closed for nearly two hours.

    Truck spills cans of tomato sauce on highway

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  • 24
    Mar
    2011
    7:35pm, EDT

    Aerial images show illegal oil refineries in Nigeria's delta region

    Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters

    A view of an illegal oil refinery is seen in Ogoniland outside Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region March 24, 2011.Crude oil thieves -- known locally as "bunkerers" -- have been a fact of life for years in Africa's biggest oil and gas industry, puncturing pipelines and costing Nigeria and foreign oil firms millions of dollars in lost revenues each year.

    Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters

    Smoke rises from an illegal oil refinery in Ogoniland outside Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region.

    Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters

    Oil surfaces on water near an illegal oil refinery in Ogoniland outside Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region March 24, 2011.

     Here's an article that provides some context for the existence of "bush refineries."

    2 comments

    the site is intimidating and dreadful which it need urgent attention

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    Explore related topics: oil, nigeria, world, refinery, spill, petroleum, resources
  • 9
    Aug
    2010
    11:20am, EDT

    Indranil Mukherjee / AFP-Getty Images

    Containers fall from the deck of the damaged cargo ship MSC Chitra in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai, India on Monday, Aug. 9. A defense ministry spokesman said the Indian Coast Guard was trying to contain oil from the badly-listing ship that collided with another vessel. Some 200 containers fell from the ship.

    Indranil Mukherjee / AFP-Getty Images

    Cargo containers float away from the damaged cargo ship as the badly-listing container ship sinks in the Arabian Sea on Monday, Aug. 9.

    Cargo ship collision

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    169 comments

    Not Bushes fault but emblematic of the Bush economy, sinking fast with vast government bailouts of greedy banking sector in place when inherited and won't be fixed quickly -- obviously. Economy probably headed in right direction (at least a better direction) but damage from 8 years of Republican r …

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  • 5
    Aug
    2010
    11:45am, EDT

    Matt Davis / AFP - Getty Images

    Carpenter Clarence Barthel walks alone on the beach of Pass Christian, Mississippi on Wednesday, August 4. The beach has been cleaned up remarkably in the wake of the BP oil spill, but tourists are yet to return. As BP kills the oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, some coast residents can no longer smell the stench of oil or even see much oil on their sandy beaches, but that doesn't mean tourists are likely to return any time soon. Barthel saw no reason to interrupt his visits to the town during the disaster, but says the environment on the beach has improved markedly over the last two weeks. BP cleanup crews were combing the beach for tar balls and bulldozing away oil-soaked sand a few weeks ago, said Barthel, who said he had seen very few tar balls after a couple of hours of walking up and down the beach.

    Where's the oil? (And how do you make a picture of what's not there?)

    The news from the Gulf seems to be getting better: The 'static kill' procedure appears to be have stopped the leak, at least for now. And, as far as the oil already in the Gulf of Mexico goes, the federal government says "that nearly three-quarters of the spilled oil — more than 152 million gallons — has been collected at the well by a temporary containment cap, been cleaned up or chemically dispersed, or naturally deteriorated, evaporated or dissolved."

    That claim, however, is very controversial. Anne Thompson, NBC's environmental affairs correspondent, has a full report on the controversy, including some very skeptical reactions from fishermen, in this video from NBC Nightly News.

    Whether the feds are right about the spilled oil or not, it's great to see Pass Christian looking pretty good in this picture--and certainly a lot better than Orange Beach, Alabama looked on June 26, in an earlier Photoblog post. Given the degree of uncertainty in the news, though, the question mark at the end of this headline seems necessary. We're not really sure what the picture means in the larger context of this story, even if we know exactly where and when it was taken. It's just too complicated of a story right now to try to show in one image.

    Along those lines, our newsroom is hoping that the first stage of this national nightmare is coming to an end, and anticipating an announcement by the federal government that the static kill (or, failing that, a relief well) has worked to permanently cap the leak. As we hope for resolution, we're also planning: how can we present this news visually on our cover, if and when it happens? We could put up a live video stream of BP's "spillcam," but it isn't really showing useful information these days. We could put up a picture of a press conference, but why bother, really? We could put up a picture like this one from Pass Christian, with the right headline. We're considering a number of other options, though in the end we'll probably do what we usually do: quickly look at all available recent images as news is breaking, pick our best immediate option, and then improve it as new pictures and news are available. Publishing news on the Internet is almost always improvisational.

    Nonetheless, we plan for foreseeable contingencies, and we love it when our readers tell us what they think. So, if you have any ideas to help us in our planning process, we'd love to hear them in the comment thread.

    2 comments

    Thanks MIKL!

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  • 1
    Jul
    2010
    1:25pm, EDT

    Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP-Getty Images

    A man walks near the spilled crude oil on the shores and in the waters of the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo, a village in the famous Nigerian oil-producing Ogoniland, which hosts the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria's Rivers State on June 24, 2010. The region has in recent years experienced an average 300 spills a year, roughly one spill a day, from terminals, pipes and platforms, according to government officials and experts. Sabotage of oil facilities by armed rebels fighting for a fairer share of oil wealth for locals, and theft of crude (popularly known as oil bunkering) in recent years saw spills spiking to new levels.

    A spill per day, almost

    As bad as the oil gusher is in the Gulf of Mexico, a look at Nigeria shows how it could be worse.

    3 comments

    Fair enough earl1, but i don't think even the "thugs" have control over what Shell (an American company) is doing to their country. What makes the Gulf of Mexico spill potentially worse than this? Nothing! Only the opinions of Americans who are happy to @!$%# up the rest of the world.

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  • 28
    Jun
    2010
    12:05pm, EDT

    Joe Raedle / Getty Images

    A man walks on the beach where oil washes ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 26, 2010 in Orange Beach, Ala. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion on the drilling platform.

    Oil washes ashore

    Click to see more pictures from the oil spill.

    10 comments

    What are you saying CC195? We have gained wisdom, only its to hurt and destroy one another and everything in the name of greedy wants? We should be proud....not.

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  • 9
    Jun
    2010
    12:19pm, EDT

    Eric Gay / AP

    In this Monday, June 7, photo, APTN photographer Rich Matthews takes a closer look at oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, La..

    Swimming in oil

    This is commitment. Read about Matthews' swim here: http://bit.ly/bm5VJP and check out a video of his adventure here: http://bit.ly/aVvpRD

    9 comments

    BP better compensate these fisherman for the loss of their jobs and enough left over to move their families far away from America's latest toxic waste dump! On a personal note, I won't be eating shrimp for the rest of my life!

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  • 4
    Jun
    2010
    5:52pm, EDT

    Gerald Herbert / Reuters

    A clean-up worker picks up blobs of oil in absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Friday, June 4.

    Sticky, oily mess

    It seems like the effects of the spill are suddenly becoming more obvious. Click here to see the strongest images coming out of this disaster.

    2 comments

    This is not greasy kid stuff.

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  • 3
    Jun
    2010
    10:07pm, EDT

    BP

    This is a video still from the live video provided by BP shows dramatic scenes of the cap being lifted into place the sawed-off pipe, 5,000 feet below the Gulf's surface.

    Cut and cap

    Let's keep our fingers crossed ... hope it works this time.

    Watch the live video feed from here

    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

    3 comments

    When well we learn? Santa Barbara, Exxon Valdez in Alaska, now the Gulf.... OIL AND WATER WILL NEVER MIX!

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