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March 24, 2014

Busy US Gulf ship lane closed due to oil spill
Miami (AFP) March 24, 2014
A busy shipping lane to the port of Houston, Texas was closed Monday as clean up crews struggled to remove oil that spilled in a weekend barge crash. The barge loaded with a million gallons of tar-like "bunker" oil collided with a ship Saturday, and the US Coast Guard said that some 168,000 gallons of oil had spilled in the accident. Cleanup agencies deployed more than 69,000 feet of containment boom near the crash site "and along sensitive shorelines in the area," the Coast Guard said in a stat ... read more

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US Seals take control of rogue Libya oil ship: Pentagon US Navy Seals boarded and took control of an oil tanker that had loaded crude at a rebel-held port in eastern Libya and escaped to sea, the Pentagon said Monday. ... more		Greenpeace sues Russia over Arctic Sunrise detention Greenpeace is suing Russia before the European Court of Human Rights for detaining its members during a protest last year against Arctic drilling, the environmental lobby group said on Monday. ... more		NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival China warns Papua New Guinea over Australian defence deal		US ends BP contract ban The United States announced Thursday an end to its ban on BP obtaining government contracts following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. ... more
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International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

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BTM Reduces Coolant Usage and Waste Removal Costs with QualiChem Fluids

ICLEI Launches "Climate Pathways" to Help Cities Fight Carbon Pollution

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Renewable chemical ready for biofuels scale-up

Maverick and PPE To Make Small-scale Methane-to-Methanol Plants

US, Japan in historic plutonium return deal

Shale could be long-term home for problematic nuclear waste

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EU states to hold talks on 'drone wall' to protect bloc

Denmark military intel fails to identify source of drone flights

Lithuania eases rules on shooting down drones

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Kerry stays mum on Keystone pipeline deliberations

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Nigeria's president ditches bank chief who triggered $50B oil scandal

Shell sells Aussie refinery, gas stations

US judge blocks Keystone pipeline route in Nebraska

Israel has $500M gas deal with Jordan, but wider exports still unclear

Study on Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Systems Indicates New Priorities

Iraq oil exports down in January: ministry

Nigeria: State oil company to be probed over '$20B subsidy racket'

America's natural gas system is leaky and in need of a fix

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Euro Parliament panel exempts shale gas from beefed-up rules

Quebec plans oil exploration program

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Minister claims Lebanon faces 'conspiracy' over gas fields

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Iraqi pipeline attacks raise fears of threat to oil

New Delhi orders probe on gas pricing

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