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Barrier Reef Spill Ecological Threat; Hazardous Dumping in Aquifers; Alberta Spill Ominous
Great Barrier Reef oil spill: Aircraft to sweep area as slick confirmed. Specialist aircraft will leave Cairns early Saturday on an urgent mission to determine the extent of an oil spill near the Great Barrier Reef.
US likely to bar oil-waste dumping into 10 California aquifers. Oil companies will probably have to stop injecting their wastewater into 10 Central Valley aquifers that the state has let them use for years, in the latest fallout from a simmering dispute over whether California has adequately protected its groundwater from contamination.
Large Pipeline Spill in Alberta ‘Stark Reminder’ of Dangers of Tar Sands. “This leak is also a good reminder that Alberta has a long way to go to address its pipeline problems, and that communities have good reasons to fear having more built. New pipelines would also facilitate the expansion of the tar sands—Canada’s fastest growing source of carbon emissions—and accelerate the climate crisis even more.
