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Tennessee Valley Authority liable for 2008 coal ash spill-ruling

Posted on 24 August 2012
The Tennessee Valley Authority is legally responsible for a 2008 accident that sent 5 million cubic yards of toxic coal sludge oozing into a small community in eastern Tennessee, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan said the levee that was supposed to keep t...
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Toxic chemical spill in NSW cleared up 'without incident'

Posted on 17 August 2012
One hundred litres of a highly toxic and potentially explosive chemical that spilled at an industrial site near Newcastle have been mopped up without incident, authorities say. Police established a 300-metre exclusion zone and evacuated 100 people after a 1000-litre drum of methyl ethyl ke...
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Taiwan's Formosa Petrochem shuts refinery unit on leak

Posted on 27 July 2012
Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp has shut one of two residue desulphurizer (RDS) units at its 540,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Mailiao due to a leak, and it may restart in about a week's time, a company spokesman said on Friday. Its other RDS unit is running at full cap...
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In hours, caustic vapors wreaked quiet ruin on biggest US refinery

Posted on 25 June 2012
In the end, all it took was a small chemical spill - perhaps less than a barrelful - to bring down the newest, mightiest oil refinery in the United States. Three weeks ago, while workers repaired a minor leak at the Port Arthur, Texas plant owned by Motiva Enterprises, a few gallons a day of ...
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Storage plant chemical leak keeps Victorian port closed

Posted on 20 February 2012
A chemical spill at a storage plant in Portland, which forced residents indoors, is expected to keep the port closed on Monday. The port in Victoria's southwest, which caters for fertilisers, grains and woodchip, as well as the huge Alcoa smelter, will have a skeleton staff until the leak...
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