Showing posts with label NBC News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NBC News. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Diesel spill pollutes waters between Staten Island, NJ | Synopsis

Diesel spill pollutes waters between Staten Island, NJ

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pattugliatore classe CP271 - coast guard patrol boat CP271 class italian coast guard by luca280668
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Officials say 336,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the waters between Staten Island and New Jersey after a storage tank was lifted and ruptured from the surge from Sandy. All of the spilled fuel is believed to be contained by booms put in the Arthur Kill waterway, the Coast Guard says. The liquid leaked at the Motiva oil tank facility in Woodbridge, N.J., according to authorities. Read more stories on NBCNewYork. com Follow @NBCNewsUS Coast Guard spokesman Les Tippets says a secondary tank caught most of the fuel and that the liquid that escaped moved into the Arthur Kill. Slideshow: Sandy slams into East Coast Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast. Launch slideshow About 200 responders were on scene to contain the spill.

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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Theft of sacred rock carvings stuns California tribe, federal officials | Reduction

Theft of sacred rock carvings stuns California tribe, federal officials

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An area in the Volcanic Tableland in eastern California where thieves apparently attempted to carve out a petroglyph and then decided to move on without it. They ultimately extracted six slabs with the ancient images, and damaged many of the others in between with their equipment. By Kari Huus, NBC NewsThieves apparently armed with power saws, ladders, generators and other heavy equipment gouged out ancient petroglyphs etched into the volcanic stone landscape in eastern California, removing six and damaging dozens of the carvings, which are sacred to the Paiute tribe, according to a tribal member and government archaeologist. "This is by far the worst example of vandalism in my career in my field office," said Greg Haverstock, archaeologist for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Bishop, Calif. , about 150 miles due east of San Jose.

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