France's Total among 15 in the dock over Erika oil spill
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The first trial in France over a major environmental disaster will open on Monday  to decide whether oil giant Total and other parties bear responsibility for the massive oil spill from the Erika shipwreck in 1999.
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French oil group Total has reported a 5.0-percent rise in adjusted net profit on the back of high oil prices last year to 12.585 billion euros (15.8 billion dollars), a record for any French company.
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Divers found a six-foot gash in one of seven cargo tanks on the Greek-owned tanker that leaked 30,000 of crude oil into the Port of Philadelphia, spokesmen for the Coast Guard and the vessel&#39;s owner said Sunday.
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GENEVA: Up to 15 hazardous substances are expected to be added to a &quot;watch list&quot; regulating international trade in toxic industrial products and pesticides, the UN&#39;s environmental agency said.
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GONAIVES -- The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,070 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said yesterday. Rescuers counted 1,013 bodies recovered from floodwaters, mud, and collapsed homes in Gonaives alone by last night. Another 58 bodies have been recovered elsewhere in Haiti's northwest province, Deslorges said. He ...
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Lease sales could produce 15 billion barrels of oil, but environmentalists say drilling would threaten already melting habitat.
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A crowded passenger boat capsized in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 15 people, with several others possibly missing, an official said
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MULHOUSE, France  - A gas explosion tore through a five-storey apartment building, killing 15 people and injuring another 14 in eastern France, authorities said Monday.
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Assembly member Huw Lewis is demanding answers and assurances from Welsh Water following a river chemical spillage.   A death toll of around 1,000 fish was expected after three tonnes of aluminium sulphate leaked into the Taf Fechan from Pontsticill water treatment works on August 13.
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According to Al-Yaum newspaper (December 12, 2006), a recent study by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry estimated at 153,000 the total number of the employed workers in the operating petrochemicals manufacturing companies in the Arabian Gulf States.
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At least 175,000 Haitians have been affected by flooding caused by a tropical storm, relief workers say.
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A Yemeni court sentences 15 men on terror charges, including the 2002 bombing of the French Limburg tanker.
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France begins a trial over the 1999 Erika oil spill - one of the country's worst environmental disasters.
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A ship carrying hundreds of migrants, which has spent a week off the coast of Mauritania, is due to dock.
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Environment officials assess the damage after 300 gallons of heating oil leaks from a tanker in a coastal town.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 20--The source of a 900-gallon oil spill into Tampa Bay from Port Manatee discovered Monday has been traced to a roughly quarter-inch hole in a transfer pipe that had been leaking for more than a day.
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An Indonesian passenger ship capsized off the island of Sulawesi, killing 15 people and leaving 6 missing, a transport ministry official said on Friday.