By Anthony McLennan About 190,000 liters or approximately 50,000 gallons of oil has been spilled on Indigenous land in British Columbia by Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline. The Trans Mountain pipeline was bought by the Canadian government from Kinder Morgan Canada in 2018, after they had…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze Seven (Of Hundreds) Environmental Nightmares Created By Open Pit Mines (and the Obligatory Tailings Ponds) that have Caused Irremediable, Highly Toxic Contamination Downstream 1) The 2014 Mount Polley Environmental Disaster (British Columbia, Canada) Aerial view of the outlet of…
By Jessica Corbett Following President Donald Trump’s “reckless” decision last week to repeal an ocean protection policy enacted by his predecessor, a study published Friday in the journal Nature details the long-term impact of BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, outlining how “lingering oil residues have altered the basic building blocks of life in…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze House Republicans can’t claim anything if they’re not earning their keep for massive corporations and other special interests whether it be genetically modified food, the banking and finance industry, pharmaceutical companies, the Israel lobby, and, of course, Big Oil. In keeping with…
by Jessica Corbett ‘We Don’t Know… How Bad It Is’ A 31-car freight train derailed in Iowa and started leaking crude oil into floodwaters on Friday morning, forcing evacuations of nearby homes and raising concerns about drinking water contamination. The Sioux County Sheriff posted a video depicting the…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze (and Neither are Hydrofluoric Acid Storage Tanks) An Open Letter to the Affected Mayors, City Councilors and Assorted Thought Leaders who Inhabit the Areas Downstream and Downwind The first (of many) junior mining companies that want to…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze The November, 2017 Keystone crude oil pipeline leak in South Dakota turns out to have been the one of the largest U.S. inland oil spills since 2010. Robynn Tysver, TransCanada Corp spokeswoman, told the Aberdeen American News that some 9,700 barrels of…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze In what has now become common place in the United States, a leak from a Marathon Petroleum Corporation pipeline was detected last Tuesday evening. In all, 42,000 gallons of diesel spilled into Big Creek and Posey Creek, Indiana before the leak was…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze A Photo Gallery of Seven Preventable, Catastrophic Tailings Ponds Disasters Related to Hard Rock Mining (and one pipeline disaster) (If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, the DNR and PCA Will Have no Rational Choice Other…
By Whitney Webb A British Petroleum pipeline in Colorado ruptured last week for still “unknown” reasons, spilling similarly unknown quantities of methane-contaminated wastewater into a tributary of the Los Pinos river. British Petroleum (BP), the company behind the devastating “Deepwater Horizon” oil spill in the…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, special guest to Natural Blaze Duty to Warn: Highlighting Enbridge Energy’s 2010 Kalamazoo River Pipeline Spill Also see a major Wall Street Journal article on this important topic: “This investigation identified a complete breakdown of safety at Enbridge. Their employees performed…
By Alexis Henning The spill is one of the largest in North Dakota history. A farmer in North Dakota discovered one of the largest crude oil spills ever recorded in the state just “bubbling up out of the ground” while harvesting wheat a few months…
By Chris “Kikila” Perrin Bella Bella, British Columbia — When is environmental damage too much? When is it acceptable? In what is being called “a relatively tiny”marine oil spill, for the Heiltsuk First Nations of the Central Coast of BC, the question is being asked…
By Claire Bernish Since an Alabama mine worker first alerted Colonial Pipeline officials to a massive rupture, more than a quarter million gallons of refined gasoline have poured into a waterway, threatening the environment and health of residents in Shelby County. Colonial insists the spill…
By righteous If I told you there was another major oil leak that just happened from another pipe in the Gulf of Mexico, again, how many of you actually heard about it? I certainly didn’t until just a few days ago and everyone I have…
By Amanda Froelich Thanks to Shell oil company, a 2 mile by 13 mile sheen of oil is now visible in the sea about 97 miles off the Louisiana coast. This is a result of 88,200 gallons of crude oil leaking from the company’s pipeline…
