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                    [Title] => New oil spill reported off northern China coast
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A new oil spill was reported off China's northern coast on Tuesday, the third such incident on the Bohai Sea in less than two months.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-12 16:00:48 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 701365 [Title] => Reports: China investigating offshore oil spills [Summary] =>

State media say recent spills in China's largest offshore oil field are being investigated.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-01 18:21:08 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 356765 [Title] => Nature takes care of us, we must take care of nature [Summary] => Over the past five decades the rapid economic development of many countries has greatly increased the need for the marine transportation of crude and refined oils. Also during this time companies were starting to look to the sea to satisfy the increased need for fossil fuels. The use of offshore drilling and offshore transportation has led to many ecological disasters over this period of time. There are 20 major oil spills in the world since 1967, with a quantity ranging from 37,000 to 287,000 tons spilt. [DatePublished] => 2006-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135430 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 343042 [Title] => Coast Guard raises awareness in marine environment protection [Summary] => Accidental oil spills remain the country’s number one pollutant of the marine environment, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported yesterday.

In a seminar on marine environmental protection and oil spill response conducted yesterday, the PCG said some 36 percent of oil spills occur during loading and discharging operations of oil from 1974 to 2002.

Collisions involving oil-carrying vessels accounts for 23 percent of oil spills. Only two percent resulted from fires or explosions.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ArticleID] => 705056
                    [Title] => New oil spill reported off northern China coast
                    [Summary] => 

A new oil spill was reported off China's northern coast on Tuesday, the third such incident on the Bohai Sea in less than two months.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-12 16:00:48 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 701365 [Title] => Reports: China investigating offshore oil spills [Summary] =>

State media say recent spills in China's largest offshore oil field are being investigated.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-01 18:21:08 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 356765 [Title] => Nature takes care of us, we must take care of nature [Summary] => Over the past five decades the rapid economic development of many countries has greatly increased the need for the marine transportation of crude and refined oils. Also during this time companies were starting to look to the sea to satisfy the increased need for fossil fuels. The use of offshore drilling and offshore transportation has led to many ecological disasters over this period of time. There are 20 major oil spills in the world since 1967, with a quantity ranging from 37,000 to 287,000 tons spilt. [DatePublished] => 2006-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135430 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 343042 [Title] => Coast Guard raises awareness in marine environment protection [Summary] => Accidental oil spills remain the country’s number one pollutant of the marine environment, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported yesterday.

In a seminar on marine environmental protection and oil spill response conducted yesterday, the PCG said some 36 percent of oil spills occur during loading and discharging operations of oil from 1974 to 2002.

Collisions involving oil-carrying vessels accounts for 23 percent of oil spills. Only two percent resulted from fires or explosions.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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