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• Nanotubes to soak up oil spills

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  Chinese chemists have made sturdy nanotube sponges that can selectively absorb oil and volatile chemicals in preference to water. The sponges float on water and can absorb up almost 180 times their own weight in oil, giving them great potential for mopping up industrial spillages. We are very excited about the ...
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• East Timor wants compensation from Australia for oil spill fallout

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  ABC News 5 NOv 09;East Timor wants compensation from the Australian Government for any environmental damage caused by an oil leak from a rig in the Timor Sea.The Montara oil rig, which is 250 kilometres from East Timors coastline, was expelling 400 barrels of oil a day for two months until the leak was stopped earlier ...
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• Australian oil spill recovery plan could take 7 years

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  Yahoo News 4 Nov 09;SYDNEY (AFP) – Monitoring the clean-up of a huge oil spill in pristine Australian waters could take as long as seven years, an official said Wednesday as environmentalists urged a wide-ranging inquiry into the disaster.As many as 28,000 barrels of oil have gushed into the Timor Sea off Western ...
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• Bunker Fuel: Recent Bay spill leads to renewed calls for bunker fuel ban

  
  Gary Bogue — Authority: 123
  National Response Corp. workers wipe gooey bunker fuel oil off shoreline rocks at Ballena Bay in Alameda, Calif. on Monday Nov. 2. (Laura A. Oda/Staff) In response to a bunker fuel spill in San Francisco Bay last Friday that resulted in a mile-long slick, Friends of the Earth renewed its call for a ban on the use ...
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• Huge Oil Spill Off Australia Reaches Indonesia, Affecting Fishermen

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  AFP, Jakarta Globe 2 Nov 09;A massive oil spill off northwest Australia has hit Indonesia, killing fish and destroying livelihoods in poor villages along the Timor Sea, a non-governmental group said Monday.About 7,000 fishermen in East Nusa Tenggara province have been affected by the spill from the Thai-operated West ...
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• Yet Another Oil Spill

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  Regardless of the facts, promoters of expanded offshore drilling along the coasts of the United States keep on claiming that oil spills almost never happen. They’re counting on people not doing their own research into the matter. They’re counting on their claims being taken on faith. Take a quick look at ...
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• Ten-week-old Oil Leak Catches Fire

  
  A Long Tough Blog — Authority: 123
  In the Timor Sea off northwest Australia. More from Geology.com. Images of the oil from Earth Observatory.
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• Leaking oil rig catches fire in Timor Sea

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Blaze breaks out on West Atlas rig and Montara wellhead platform as workers attempt to stop leak with heavy mud
  2 weeks ago

• Fire delays bid to stop Timor Sea oil leak

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Blaze breaks out as workers attempt to plug leak with heavy mud to stop oil slick which is threatening marine wildlife A massive fire has broken out on an Austalian oil rig and delayed plans to plug the leak that has been spilling oil into the Timor Sea since August. The blaze started on Sunday when workers began ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oil Gone Easy S-200 Used To Clear Oil Spills in the Snowy Mountains

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 157
  Oil Gone Easy Home & Driveway S-200 is an eco-friendly product that can be used to clean up oil stains from any surface, like concrete, asphalt, flag stone, brick, pavers, cobblestone, and soil. Recently, Oil Gone Easy completed a project to clean up oil spills at the snowy mountains, Australia. The project was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leaking Timor Sea oil rig catches fire

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  Reuters 1 Nov 09;SYDNEY, Nov 1 (Reuters) - An oil rig operated by a unit of top Thai energy firm PTTEP in the Timor Sea, which has been leaking for 10 weeks, caught fire on Sunday, officials said.The West Atlas rig operated by PTTEP Australasia, a unit of PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) PTTE.BK, started leaking ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australian oil spill putting animals at risk

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  Amy Coopes Yahoo News 31 Oct 09;SYDNEY (AFP) – A massive oil leak off Australias northwest coast poses an "immediate risk" to dozens of marine species, with untold numbers possibly dying and sinking to the Timor Sea floor, a report has said.Biologist James Watson was commissioned to carry out a government survey of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dead fish drifting in Indonesia after oil leak

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  Niniek Karmini, Associated Press Google News 30 Oct 09;JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near Indonesias coastline more than two months after an underwater well began leaking in the Timor Sea, officials and fishermen said.An estimated 400 barrels a day of oil has ...
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• Oil firm delays new bid to plug Timor Sea leak: officials

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  Yahoo News 27 Oct 09;SYDNEY (AFP) – A Thai-based firm put off a fourth attempt to stop a major oil leak in the Timor Sea off Australias northwest coast on Tuesday due to technical problems, some nine weeks after the spill started.PTTEP Australasia said equipment problems forced a delay until later this week, ...
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• Repairing a Crack in the Driveway

  
  Handy Man Fix Home Repair — Authority: 478
  If you have a driveway that is made out of asphalt, then understanding the essentials behind driveway crack repair is going to be rather necessary. There are a number of benefits to using an asphalt driveway over one made out of gravel or dirt, including a longer lifespan and better durability. Sealing your driveway ...
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• Mega oil spill reaches Indonesian Coast

  
  Bartlett's Blog — Authority: 114
  A leaking oil rig off the north-western coast of Australia has been spewing oil into the marine environment for over two months.  Whilst there has been intermittent publicity about the ongoing oil spill, it certainly hasn’t galvanised wide-scale public concern in Australia. I have to confess that, like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oil Slimed Birds are Appearing off the Coast of Oregon

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 697
  Approximately 150 birds have been rescued off the Coast of Oregon covered with an algae slime. The birds are being transported from Portland, Oregon to Fairfax, California to have their feathers cleaned, and hopefully save their lives.
  3 weeks ago

• Despite Timor Sea spill, oil licences granted

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  Peter Ker, The Age 24 Oct 09;THE company responsible for one of the biggest oil spills in Australian history was yesterday given access to more Australian oilfields, after winning support from the Rudd Government.As its workers began their fourth attempt at fixing the Montara oil leak off the Kimberley coast, Thai ...
  3 weeks ago

• Oil spill killing wildlife in Timor Sea

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  WWF expedition into Timor Sea finds dolphins, sea birds, turtles and other marine wildlife at risk in oil spill that began in August Conservationists warned yesterday that one of Australias worst off-shore oil spills was killing wildlife and "massively contaminating" one of the worlds last great wildnernesses. Amid a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Marine life affected by Timor Sea oil spill

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Seabirds, dolphins, sea snakes and marine turtles are all suffering from a toxic oil spill which has been leaking since August into the Timor Sea, off the north-west coast of Western Australia, according to the conservation group WWF
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