Related Posts
Unique Russian subs ‘could stop oil leak’, says captain
Just soon as the US sent a hot Russian spy back home, an offer to help stop the...
Update: Central America Death Toll Rises to 150The aftermath of tropical storm Agatha continues to cast much fear and worry over Central American citizens. To...
Extreme weather update: New landslide in China, Russian heat wave over, Pakistan aid starts
Two months of extreme heat in Russia will end after today according to Russian meteorologists, with rains expected...
Update: Central America Death Toll Rises to 83Last night, it was reported that the death toll in Central America climbed to 83, as authorities and...
Update: China’s Flood Death Toll Now at 377 and Expected to RiseHeavy rains continue to fall in southern China, raising the death toll to 377 and it’s not likely...
Get your Eco Starter Kit
Create an account and start harvesting Carbon Credits! Exchange your Carbon Credits for green goodies, like the Eco-Hatchery Starter Kit!
-
Green network users
3,030 Users - Show All
Green Directory
Tip of the Day
When given the choice, take the stairs instead of the elevator to save energy and workout at the same time!
Death toll from Russian oil rig hits 16
map by NormanEinstein (Wikimedia Commons)
On Sunday a Russian oil platform capsized between Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Sea of Okhotsk off far eastern Russia.
The oil rig, which was manned by 67 people subcontracted by Russian oil giant Gazprom, was being towed during a storm when heavy winds toppled it into the sea.
So far Russian authorities have confirmed 16 deaths and a rescue raft with 15 people has been spotted, but it is not known how many on the raft – if any – are alive.
According to regional emergency services, the accident poses no environmental threat, since the drilling platform’s fuel stocks are sealed.
Read more on that story on CNN and BBC and check out yesterday’s video report on the accident by Russia Today below.
Meanwhile a cargo ship is lying beached on France’s Atlantic coast since Friday, leaking fuel into a giant nature preserve. The ship beached due to a storm, which raged across France, leaving some 320,000 homes without power.
More on that story in the Guardian.
Tags: death, France, fuel, oil, okhotsk, platform, rig, Russia, ship
3 Comments
You can also log in to post a comment.
Other Greenfudge.org posts
China’s recent floods bring death and destruction
It was only three months ago that southern China was suffering from its worst drought in living memory. Now the heaviest rains in over a decade are causing floods, mudslides and other destruction there, as well as threatening the integrity of the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in Hubei province. According to a BBC report, Chinese authorities have stated that the recent flooding left 823 people dead and 437 missing, the latest count including 37 deaths after a...
New York Times ‘Toxic Waters’ Series
The prestigious American newspaper is running a string of articles examining the worsening situation of America’s waters and what government agencies are doing about it. Featured are reports with titles such as ‘Debating How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass’, ‘Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells’ and ‘Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering.’ Included in the Times’ ‘Toxic Waters’ project series are slideshows and videos, which add personal touches and sometimes...
Russian Oil and Gas Company Rosneft To Further Imperil Endangered Gray Whale
Western Gray Whales are already perilously close to extinction, but Rosneft will pursue their seismic surveys despite the well-publicized risks Russia's good news - that the country plans to set aside huge swaths of land for conservation - has been surpassed by a deluge of subsequent bad news. Heat waves led to fistfuls of citizens succumbing to vodka-induced drownings, and then this last week devastating fires have destroyed forests and left Moscow saturated in smoke. Against this backdrop of environmental and...
Would you drink recycled water?
Asking someone whether he or she would mind drinking a glass of water that has already passed through a human body might be a misleading question. Of course all water on Earth has been ‘recycled’ by evaporation and then returned in the form of rain. But in the more direct sense, i.e., by human technological means, many of you have already consumed recycled or ‘reclaimed’ water, whether you know it or not. Cities on the Thames River in the UK – London...
Study on global emission targets says temps will rise by 4C
An analysis based on national emissions targets suggests that global temperatures will rise by 4C (7.2F) by 2100. Six months after over 100 governments pledged to limit their countries’ emissions in order to keep temperatures from rising more than 1.5-2C (2.7-3.6F) above pre-industrial levels a major international study of over 60 nations, called the Climate Scoreboard, has calculated that temperatures are set to double if current targets are held to. Another study by Climate Analytics, at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, suggests...
UN climate officials meet in Bali, Indonesia
On Friday the annual meeting of UN climate chiefs took place in Bali, Indonesia. Officials from over 130 countries met with the principal aim of establishing trust between China and developing countries on the one hand; and rich countries – especially the United States – on the other. Despite the call for harmony, Chinese foreign ministry official Guo Zaofeng said developed countries had not lived up to their past commitments to cut greenhouse gases, nor had they provided funds and technology...
New Study Links Endangered Whale Meat With Japan, Possible Illegal Trading
Remember about a month ago, when a couple of activists went undercover at The Hump restaurant in California and exposed their whale sushi operation? Well, since then there has been some rather interesting developments in the case. A study published in Biology Letters, shows that the whale sushi used at The Hump—along with whale meat also used at a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea—can be linked to Japanese whaling. Although Japan does its whaling under the guise of “scientific research”, they...
Mexican Gray Wolf Considered for Separate Endangered Species Act Listing
The Mexican Gray Wolf may finally be getting the much needed protection it deserves. Earlier this year, WildEarth Guardians filed a lawsuit against the US Fish and Wildlife service in an attempt to force the agency to issue a finding. This past week, a federal judge in Arizona approved a settlement that requires the agency to issue a finding by the end of July. This finding is based on a petition that seeks to obtain an endangered species listing for the...
Greenhouse Gas Emission Cuts Need to be Bigger Now!
Greenhouse gas emission cuts need to be bigger and they need to be bigger now; not next year, not 20 or 50 years down the line. Now. UNEP claims insufficient commitments have been made since the COP-15 failure. Although a last-minute “Accord” was drawn up at the conference, which set the necessary 2 C (3.6 F) goal, it did not explain how this goal would be achieved and anyone who even bothered to pledge emissions only did it voluntarily. Adrian Steiner, director...
Fire Destroys World’s Largest Collection of Dead Snakes, Scorpions and Spiders
Some people want their work to be remembered and shared with the rest of the world for centuries to come; in many cases this involves going down in a blaze of glory (so to speak). Unfortunately, sometimes that blaze is real and will consume all those years of work. A fire destroyed the world’s largest scientific collection of dead snakes, scorpions and spiders. The collection, located at the Instituto Butantan in Brazil, was almost a century-old and included nearly 80,000 snakes...
View all articles
I’m a mountain, forest, field kinda person..Though we have lots of beaches here but I just like it during sunset, without any sun at all, and perhaps coz I’ve experienced being drowned…..
Tragic stuff, indeed. But don’t like a tropical sea either, Rachel?
I couldn’t imagine how would anyone survive in that vast of nothingness , Any sea or ocean images may it be a video or for real , could already make me sick , how much more the freezing one…such a dangerous job..