Oil Spills Canada

Oil from a sunken Japanese vessel that has fouled more than 50 miles of Washington coastline coated Oregon's northernmost beaches Wednesday with mats five to 10 feet long. "It's continuing to accumulate with the tide," said Richard Walkoski, district manager for the state Parks Department. The oil, leaking in Canadian waters off the northwest tip of Washington state, has been moving south since the fish-processing ship Tenyo Maru sank in a collision on July 22.

Ocean salvage experts from Canada, the United States and Europe are assembled at this Atlantic seaport for a delicate and controversial effort to raise an oil-laden barge from the depths of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where it sank 26 years ago. The barge has been slowly leaking its cargo of bunker oil as well as heating fluid laced with hazardous PCBs since it was swamped in a storm and settled 220 feet below the surface.

Ocean salvage experts from Canada, the United States and Europe are assembled at this Atlantic seaport for a delicate and controversial effort to raise an oil-laden barge from the depths of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where it sank 26 years ago. The barge has been slowly leaking its cargo of bunker oil as well as heating fluid laced with hazardous PCBs since it was swamped in a storm and settled 220 feet below the surface.

Oil from a sunken Japanese vessel that has fouled more than 50 miles of Washington coastline coated Oregon's northernmost beaches Wednesday with mats five to 10 feet long. "It's continuing to accumulate with the tide," said Richard Walkoski, district manager for the state Parks Department. The oil, leaking in Canadian waters off the northwest tip of Washington state, has been moving south since the fish-processing ship Tenyo Maru sank in a collision on July 22.

A fire burning for more than a week in a tire dump the size of 18 football fields is threatening to become a major environmental disaster here in southern Ontario province, officials say. If just half of the estimated 14 million tires in the dump were to liquefy in the fire's intense heat, one Canadian expert on tire recycling has said, they could produce more oil than last year's notorious Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A major rival to the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline project is vastly boosting its U.S. pipeline system, but it's avoiding the same scrutiny that federal regulators, environmentalists and landowners are giving Keystone owner TransCanada Corp. Enbridge Inc. is proceeding largely unencumbered with plans to spend $8.8 billion in the U.S. to transport greater volumes of petroleum to the Gulf Coast and other markets than TransCanada would with its Keystone XL pipeline project from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast.

A fire burning for more than a week in a tire dump the size of 18 football fields is threatening to become a major environmental disaster here in southern Ontario province, officials say. If just half of the estimated 14 million tires in the dump were to liquefy in the fire's intense heat, one Canadian expert on tire recycling has said, they could produce more oil than last year's notorious Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.