An accident Friday night aboard a vessel in the Blair Waterway caused about 50 gallons of oil to spill into the shipping channel at the Port of Tacoma.
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An accident Friday night aboard a vessel in the Blair Waterway caused about 50 gallons of oil to spill into the shipping channel at the Port of Tacoma.
An accident Friday night aboard a vessel in the Blair Waterway caused about 50 gallons of oil to spill into the shipping channel at the Port of Tacoma.
http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2012/07/07/oil-spill-in-blair-waterway/
BELLINGHAM - A pipeline company will conduct a drill Tuesday, June 4, in Whatcom Creek downstream of the Maritime Heritage Park fish hatchery to test how well it responds to an oil spill.
Kinder Morgan will do the test in conjunction with Washington state Department of Ecology. Kinder Morgan operates the Trans Mountain pipeline, which goes through Bellingham.
No oil will be released during the drill, which will run noon to 4:30 p.m., according to a Kinder Morgan news release.
Federal pipeline regulators have proposed $1.7 million in penalties against Exxon Mobil Corp. for a pipeline rupture that spewed crude oil into Montana’s Yellowstone River.
Among the lessons that the recent recession taught the Port of Tacoma was that relying too heavily on a single line of business, no matter how potentially profitable, was an invitation to financial hardship.
BELLINGHAM - Emergency teams practiced how they would handle an oil spill into Whatcom Creek during a drill downstream of the Maritime Heritage Park fish hatchery Tuesday afternoon, June 4.
The Oil Spill Containment and Response Team from Kinder Morgan set up booms along the creek to simulate how they would stop spilled oil from spreading down the creek.
Meanwhile, a Marine Spill Response Corp. team from Bellingham placed booms in Bellingham Bay at the mouth of the creek.
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