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The Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority 's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.
Spillcam. Spillcam was a live feed of the leak site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The live footage first became available to the general public on May 12 when BP was pressured by politicians to release the footage.
The 2010 Tennessee floods were floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010. Floods from these rains affected the area for several days afterwards, resulting in a number of deaths and widespread ...
June. June 1 – Oil began washing up on the beaches of Gulf Islands National Seashore. [88] June 4 – Tar balls arrive on beaches in Pensacola, Florida. [89] June 5 – Obama makes third trip to Louisiana since the disaster began, visits Grand Isle, Louisiana for the second time in two weeks.
October 26, 2023 at 11:39 AM. A request for residents to shelter in place in northwest Wichita was lifted Thursday afternoon after a cleanup involving an overturned semi truck carrying oil. But ...
An overturned vessel has caused a huge oil spill along Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline, in what the Caribbean country’s prime minister described as a “national emergency” on Sunday.
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.
Crude oil invades Bayou Lafourche Saturday, July 27, from a leak at a Crescent Midland facility between 4065 and 4101 LA 308. Smith said the spill has now been secured, and it’s currently ...