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  U.S. shipping company Matson, Inc. has agreed to pay up to USD 15.4 million as compensation for the 2013 molasses spill in Honolulu Harbour, Hawaii's attorney general said Wednesday, CNBC reports. Attorney General Dough Chin called the settlement with Hawaii-based Matson Navigation Co. one of the largest for an environmental violation in Hawaii's history. The settlement includes a combination of cash, restoration efforts and funding for environmental programs, he said. Matson is also agreeing to cease its molasses operation in Hawaii and pay for removal of its molasses tanks and any remaining molasses, Chin said. The company will pay $5.9 million to the state, and the costs related to ending the molasses operation are estimated between $5.5 million and $9.5 million, which would put the total settlement amount between $11.4 million and $15.4 million, Matson Inc. said in a statement. The $5.9 million paid to Hawaii includes money to help replace coral that had been damaged or destroyed. It will also reimburse the state for cleanup efforts and other costs.   Read what international media report: ABC: Matson to End Hawaii Molasses Operation, Pay $15.4 Million Reuters: Shipping company Matson to pay Hawaii $15 million over molasses spillIn the origin, I was ...

  ConocoPhillips and CNOOC face public interest litigation for the 2011 oil spill in Bohai Bai, China Daily reports. A landmark lawsuit has been filed against two oil giants in a maritime court over the oil spill in 2011 that polluted a huge area of Bohai Bay in Northeast China. The suit, filed against ConocoPhillips and China National Offshore Oil Corp, is the first public interest litigation brought by a nonprofit organization over marine environmental pollution to be accepted by a court. Such a move was not possible until a new environmental protection law took effect on Jan 1. The China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation said it had been told by the maritime court in Qingdao, Shandong province, that the suit had been filed. The law allows any environmental organization registered with a civil affairs bureau at city level or above and that has been operating for at least five years to bring public interest litigation. Under a damage compensation agreement, ConocoPhillips China offered 1.09 billion yuan for ecological losses, while CNOOC paid 480 million yuan and ConocoPhillips China 113 million yuan for environmental protection efforts in Bohai Bay. Source: China DailyIn the outbreak, I was explicit with you propecia before ...

  Authorities are investigating 14 possible sources of an oil spill near the Great Barrier Reef, The Brisbane Times reports Fourteen ships have been identified as possible sources of a film of oil stretching, in broken sections, 30 kilometres long and five kilometres wide south of Townsville, Patrick Quirk, general manager of Maritime Services Queensland said on Saturday July 18, 2015. An oil slick was confirmed 18 nautical miles (33 kilometres) NNE of Cape Upstart on Friday evening, but was broken up into metre-sized blotches of oily film by the weather. "We know the ships that went past the area," Mr Quirk said. "There are 14 ships that we consider are possible sources of oil and we plan to take oil samples from all of those ships," he said.Advertisement "We already have samples from five ships in Australian ports and when the others port in Australia or overseas we will get samples."   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cvjLUTjdgs Townsville water Police took samples from the oily film confirmed last week, after an 800-metre diameter slick it was reported by a fisherman to Townsville's Coast Guard on Friday (July 17) morning.  In the beginning, I was forthright with you propecia before and after has changed ...

  Five years ago this week, engineers stopped the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill—the largest one in U.S. history, easily displacing the Exxon Valdez spill from the top spot. Now, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, takes a look at the lessons scientists are learning from these accidents to improve clean-up efforts and, perhaps, prevent spills altogether. C&EN Senior Editor Jyllian Kemsley explains that although both spills were caused by human error, they each posed unique challenges. When the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, oil-spill plans were in place, but the equipment wasn't nearby. Clean-up crews performed a few different methods, some of which may have caused even more harm. A critical first obstacle in the attempt to get a handle on the DWH spill was obtaining an accurate determination of the flow rate. Scientists finally came up with a solution, but that took valuable time. The most contentious issue with the DWH response was the use of dispersants to break up the oil. Dispersants themselves are toxic, and the best way to use them was unclear. Oil-spill experts point out that the ideal approach to such an accident is to not have ...

  The former chief mate of the ocean cargo vessel M/V Murcia Carrier was sentenced to three months in prison for failing to report the hydraulic oil he ordered dumped into the ocean, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division announced. Valerii Georgiev, 42, a Russian citizen, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez to an information charging him with one count of failing to maintain an accurate oil record book in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS). Judge Rodriguez imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court. According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court: APPS requires vessels like the M/V Murcia Carrier to maintain a record known as an oil record book in which all transfers and disposals of oil-contaminated waste, including the discharge overboard of such waste, must be fully and accurately recorded. On April 27, 2014, at the direction of Georgiev, M/V Murcia Carrier crew members dumped several barrels containing hydraulic oil overboard. While Georgiev disputes the number of barrels dumped into the sea, the government believes ...

  The Disclosure and Transparency Rules (“DTR”) made by the Financial Conduct Authority govern amongst other matters the disclosure of inside information. Accordingly in compliance with Rule 2.2, BP plc makes the following announcement: Five years on from the Deepwater Horizon accident and spill in 2010, BP has reached agreements in principle to settle all federal and state claims arising from the event. BP announced that its US Upstream subsidiary, BP Exploration and Production Inc (BPXP) has executed the agreements with the US federal government and five Gulf Coast states. The agreement with the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas also includes settlement of claims made by more than 400 local government entities. The principal payments are as follows: BPXP is to pay the United States a civil penalty of $5.5 billion under the Clean Water Act (CWA) – payable over 15 years. BPXP will pay $7.1 billion to the United States and the five Gulf states over 15 years for natural resource damages (NRD). This is in addition to the $1 billion already committed for early restoration. BPXP will also set aside an additional amount of $232 million to be added to the NRD interest payment at ...

  When an on-land pipeline ruptured north of Santa Barbara, California, on May 19—spilling 105,000 barrels of crude oil onto Refugio State Beach and about 21,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean in the north Santa Barbara Channel—it created an environmental nightmare for local beaches and wildlife. In support of the response to the Refugio Incident, as it is known, NASA deployed a De Havilland Twin Otter aircraft carrying a unique airborne instrument developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the spill and test the ability of imaging spectroscopy to map tar on area beaches. The work is advancing our nation's ability to respond to future oil spills. The JPL-built Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer, Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) instrument uses spectroscopic measurement of energy reflected from Earth's surface to determine surface properties. In this case, AVIRIS-NG focused on applying imaging spectroscopy to the problem of accurately mapping the presence of oil-derived tar balls on the beaches, using direct, on-the-ground observations to verify the remote sensing data. AVIRIS-NG can capture spectral imagery that is commonly used to map ecosystems, minerals, land use and trace gases. Prior to the flights, a team of scientists led by Principal Investigator ...

  The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is responding to a report of an oil sheen about 150-feet by 200-feet in size in DuSable Harbor. USCG pollution responders on scene believe the sheen was caused by diesel originating from a 30-foot pleasure craft moored in the harbor. Sorbent boom and sorbent pads have been deployed to contain and recover the product.  The USCG received notification of the discharge around 12:45 p.m. The DuSable Harbor harbormaster, Chicago Fire Department and Police Department Marine Unit are also on scene and have secured the source of the discharge. Source: USCGIn the starting, I was straightforward with you propecia before and after has changed my life. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is incredible to sit.

  The Government of India approved a proposal for the country’s accession to an international convention which ensures compensation for damage caused by ship bunker oil spills. The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved the Ministry of Shipping's proposal for India's accession to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001 (Bunker Convention) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as well as to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 to give effect to the Bunker Convention, Nairobi Convention and Salvage Convention. The Bunker Convention ensures adequate, prompt, and effective compensation for damage caused by spills of oil, when carried as fuel in ships' bunkers. The territorial jurisdiction for damage compensation extends to territorial sea and exclusive economic zones. It applies to an Indian vessel, wherever it is situated, and to a foreign flag vessel while it is within Indian jurisdiction. The registered owner of every vessel has to maintain compulsory insurance cover which allows claim for compensation for pollution damage to be brought directly against an insurer. Every ship above one thousand gross tonnage has to carry a certificate on board to the effect that it maintains insurance or other financial ...