Oil Spill Closes Fisheries in Bering Sea
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State regulators have banned commercial fishing in the Bering Sea near the wreckage of a grounded freighter where fuel oil has been seeping since early this month.
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ANCHORAGE, United States  - An oil spill near a sensitive wildlife reserve unleashed when a freighter snapped in two off Alaska last week appears to be less serious than initially feared, officials said.
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The Arctic Barents Sea is under threat from overfishing, oil and gas exploration and Soviet-era radioactive waste, the U.N. Environment Program said on Tuesday.
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HALIFAX (CP) - A lifeboat plunged 20 metres off an oil rig, killing a Canadian worker, when the hook securing it failed to lock properly, say U.S. Coast Guard researchers.
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US Coastguard chiefs say an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska is probably thousands of gallons less than they feared.
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When the freighter Kuroshima ran aground on Unalaska Island the day before Thanksgiving 1997, conditions were terrible for stopping an oil spill.
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 6--Two years ago, birds covered in oil kept turning up along Seacliff State Beach, a popular oceanfront park five miles south of Santa Cruz.   The Coast Guard searched for an oil spill in the ocean.
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts on Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and
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An unforgiving Bering Sea thwarted efforts Friday to stem a major spill from a broken freighter, but pollution responders said they managed to begin setting up initial
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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A tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, federal officials said Saturday.
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Oil major BP Plc has shut down 10,000 barrels per day of oil production at its giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska after discovering a leaking flow line, the Anchorage Daily News reported on Saturday.
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Thousands of tons of crude oil spill into the North Sea off Norway as a tanker is loaded, an oil company says.
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A 92-foot crab boat with six crew members sank in the Bering Sea on Saturday, and the Coast Guard was searching for survivors. Three crewmen have been recovered, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said, but she would not say whether they survived.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska&#39;s coast - a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles from the vessel.
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Crude oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill still lingers in Alaska's Prince William Sound and nearby areas, with parts of the environment still far from recovery, several scientists said at a three-day conference.
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Petro-Canada, the country&#39;s third- biggest oil company, said production at its Terra Nova offshore oilfield near Newfoundland will remain shut until it completes an investigation into a spill of about 1,000 barrels of oil.