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Thus Exxon's oil slick, which holds the North American record for volume (11 million gal.), cleanup costs ($2.5 billion) and bad publicity, has now set a new high mark for penalty payouts -- almost 40 times as great as any previous spill. Nonetheless, one critic denounced the settlement as an inadequate "back-room deal," while company chairman Lawrence G. Rawl declared that it "will not have a noticeable effect" on Exxon's financial results. But Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said it "sends a very important signal that there are criminal consequences for this kind of activity...
...spill off the shores of Kuwait, which was widely reported to be the largest in history -- some 11 million bbl. -- is now estimated to be one- quarter to one-twentieth that size, making it smaller than the 1979-80 Gulf of Mexico spill at the offshore drilling rig known as Ixtoc I. Similarly, Carl Sagan's well-publicized prediction that smoke from the oil fires could rise 5 to 10 km (3 to 6 miles) to the stratosphere and blanket the globe has not yet come to pass. So far, the smoke clouds are hugging the ground, drifting...
...waters of the gulf, the oil spill now estimated by the Saudi government at 0.5 million to 3 million bbl. has been partially contained, but not cleaned up. Although the thickening sludge has killed thousands of seabirds, debilitated the Saudi shrimp industry and threatened plants and coral reefs along the coast of Kuwait and northern Saudi Arabia, favorable winds have so far kept it well north of the rich marine ecosystems in the bay of Bahrain. These marshy flats are the breeding grounds of large numbers of fish and shrimp and the favorite habitat of the rare dugong, the cousin...
Morse said that a chemical fire occurred on 12 Oxford St. at approximately 11:36 a.m. yesterday. He added the fire was the result of a chemical spill...
...routine spill. The fire department responded and cleared the scene," Morse said. "There was no fire damage and no injuries. It was kind of a routine thing...