Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticised the clean up of a major oil spill in the Black Sea and created a new task force to take over the operation, almost four weeks after the ...

The oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float. The ...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday, faulted the clean-up of a major oil spill in the Black Sea and created a new task force to take over the operation, almost four weeks after the ...

MOSCOW, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been ...

SHAH ALAM, Dec 27 — Oil spill clean-up operations, following an accident involving a tanker carrying palm oil at KM 27.9 of the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway, were completed last night. In a statement ...

NOW LET’S GET TO A LARGE OIL SPILL IN JEFFERSON ... DNR regarding the investigation and cleanup. The company says it has cleaned up about 60% of the spill, or about 960 barrels.

Greg Wilson, director of PEI's environment regulatory services division, said the oil spill was extensive and the cost of the cleanup inevitably high. (Steve Bruce/CBC) The Waites said they asked ...

Despite these efforts, oil continued to wash up along Crimea's shores. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry had previously announced that cleanup operations off the peninsula, annexed by Russia ...

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