2012 Doomsday Predictions

Pleasure Island residents filing oil spill claims sought more information on eligibility requirements
ORANGE BEACH, Alabama — Ken Feinberg took over the oil spill claims process Monday with momentum after a whirlwind weekend visit answering Alabama’s coastal residents’ lingering questions and concerns.

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Marathon Petroleum in Bay City puts containment booms in Saginaw River as part of oil spill exercise
Andrew Dodson | The Bay City TimesContainment booms line the Saginaw River in Essexville as part of an oil spill exercise.Bay City — Boaters and residents along the Saginaw River off Woodside may notice some additional items floating in…

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Enbridge says oil pipeline dent not a big danger
A dent in a pipeline that runs beneath the St. Clair River is not a big safety concern and should have no bearing on how soon the flow of oil can resume following a spill of up to 1 million gallons, company officials said Wednesday.

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MIT Develops Oil-Cleaning Robot Army
It looks like a new oil-eating microbe has been helping to clean up the Deepwater Horizon mess, but if it’s not around next time there’s a spill, maybe we can use Seaswarm , a robot army developed by MIT’s Sensable City Lab . Seaswarm is a “fleet of autonomous and self-powered robots” that communicate with each other via GPS and WiFi to collectively clean surface oil from a spill. Each Seaswarm …

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Louisiana authorities report oil sightings from Gulf of Mexico spill
Here is a list, released by Louisiana emergency officials, of areas where oil was sighted recently. The list is not a comprehensive tally of areas affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. View full sizeJim Schulz, Chicago Zoological…

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