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The federal government has taken over the handling of oil-spill damage claims from BP, and many people are waiting to see how Obama administration appointee Kenneth Feinberg administers the $20 billion victims compensation fund set up by BP.
HEADLINE: Shrimper: "We don't know what the future holds"
CAPTION: The federal government has taken over the handling of oil-spill damage claims from BP, and many people are waiting to see how Obama administration appointee Kenneth...
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Greenpeace demands govt coordinate volunteer efforts
1. Protestors outside central government offices in A Coruna
2. Protest banner, tilt to containers of oil collected from beaches
3. Close shot protestor, tilt to oil on coveralls
4. Policeman near protest, taking notes
5. Various of...
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Coast Guard scientists are trying to figure out if tar balls that are popping up along beaches in the Florida Keys are from the massive Gulf oil spill. The balls have been shipped to a lab in Connecticut for a closer look.
HEADLINE: Tar balls washing ashore in Fla. vacation spot
CAPTION: Coast Guard scientists are trying to figure out if tar balls that are popping up along beaches in the Florida Keys are from the massive Gulf oil spill. The balls have...
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Oil Spill, River Pilots Try To Restore Traffic On Waterways
Pilottown, 3 Sep, 2005
1. Wide tracking shot of hurricane-damaged oil storage tanks in catchment basin
2. Tracking shot of damaged oil storage tank
3. Water blackened by oil spill
4. Damaged oil storage tank and blackened water
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With a startling report some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf is mostly gone already. Out of sight, though, doesn't mean out of danger.
HEADLINE: Looking for the oil? NOAA says it's mostly gone
CAPTION: With a startling report some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf is mostly gone already....
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The wildlife nightmare that everyone has feared for weeks along the Gulf Coast is fast becoming a reality. Saturday, a group of biologists and fish and wildlife agents were out on the water trying to rescue oil-covered birds
HEADLINE: Rescuers try to help oil-covered birds
CAPTION: The wildlife nightmare that everyone has feared for weeks along the Gulf Coast is fast becoming a reality. Saturday, a group of biologists and fish and wildlife agents were out...
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Gulf residents react to president's address on spill crisis
Chauvin, Louisiana - 15 June 2010
1. Mid of television sceen showing US President Barack Obama's speech, pan to man watching speech
2. Mid of woman watching speech
3. Wide of man at bar watching speech
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Trey Ledet,...
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SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST (2)
English/Nat
An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers...
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President Barack Obama promised Saturday to stand with the people of the Gulf Coast "until they are made whole" from the oil spill catastrophe.
HEADLINE: Obama: I'll stand with the Gulf
CAPTION: President Barack Obama promised Saturday to stand with the people of the Gulf Coast "until they are made whole" from the oil spill catastrophe. (June 5)
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President Barack Obama announced Saturday that former Florida Sen. Bob Graham and former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
HEADLINE: Obama taps two to lead Gulf oil spill panel
CAPTION: President Barack Obama announced Saturday that former Florida Sen. Bob Graham and former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating...
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Since last month's rig explosion and spill of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, more than 3 million feet of so-called boom has been deployed along the coast. But it's not a fail-safe method of keeping the oil from washing ashore.
HEADLINE: Booms aren't fail-safe in containing Gulf oil
CAPTION: Since last month's rig explosion and spill of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, more than 3 million feet of so-called boom has been deployed...
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BP's new boss says it's time for a "scaleback" in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and federal officials say there is no way the crude could reach the East Coast.
HEADLINE: BP talks of cleanup 'scaleback', static kill delayed
CAPTION: BP's new boss says it's time for a "scaleback" in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and federal officials say there is no way the crude could reach the East...
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Dwayne Price, a charter boat fisherman, gave the AP's Bonny Ghosh a tour of oil-soaked Barataria Bay in Louisiana. Price decried the impact of the oil spill on the areas wildlife and pleaded for more help cleaning it up.
HEADLINE: Gulf fisherman: "It's heartbreaking "
CAPTION: Dwayne Price, a charter boat fisherman, gave the AP's Bonny Ghosh a tour of oil-soaked Barataria Bay in Louisiana. Price decried the impact of the oil spill on the areas wildlife...
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The director of the National Hurricane Center says the oil spill in the Gulf is likely to have little impact on hurricane formation this storm season, because as big as the slick is, it would be dwarfed by the scale of a hurricane.
HEADLINE: Top forecaster doubts oil's effect on hurricanes
CAPTION: The director of the National Hurricane Center says the oil spill in the Gulf is likely to have little impact on hurricane formation this storm season, because as big...
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Crews were poised to begin setting fire to oil leaking from the site of an exploded drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, a last-ditch effort to get rid of it before it reaches environmentally sensitive marshlands on the coast.
HEADLINE: Crews try setting fire to oil leaking in Gulf
CAPTION: Crews have begun setting fire to oil leaking from the site of an exploded drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, a last-ditch effort to get rid of it before it...
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Russia - Baltic Sea Fleet Turns To Rust
Russia's once proud Baltic Sea Fleet seems doomed to rust in
harbours in the Baltic state of Kaliningrad. Hundreds of naval
ships from the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet are listing in what have
become ship graveyards, because there is...
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BP CEO Tony Hayward apologizes for the oil spill and pledges that BP "will not rest" until they make it right.
HEADLINE: Bp's Hayward at Hearing: 'deeply Sorry'
CAPTION: BP CEO Tony Hayward apologizes for the oil spill and pledges that BP "will not rest" until they make it right. (June 17)
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Galapagos Islands, Central America / El Salvador, Congo, USA
Birds, seals, crabs and lizards on the Galapagos Islands
Oil tanker Jessica aground off Galapagos Islands
Oil spill in water
Attempting to contain oil spill with floating barriers
Cleanup of oil polluted bird
Godfrey Merlin (Galapagos...
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Oil spill chief says capped well is holding up
BP Handout
Gulf of Mexico - 20 July 2010
1. Wide of blow out preventer ++MUTE++
2. Mid view of blow out preventer ++MUTE++
POOL - No Restrictions
Washington, DC - 20 July, 2010
3. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar being sworn in
4. Front...
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Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico oil well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating 'dead zones' where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.
HEADLINE: Methane in Gulf spill: 'dangerous, deadly'
CAPTION: Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico oil well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating 'dead zones' where...
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With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripling in size, people who make their living on the Gulf Coast are getting angry as days roll by with no apparent solid clean-up plan. (May 1)
HEADLINE: Boat guide: Frustrated by oil spill uncertainty
CAPTION: With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripling in size, people who make their living on the Gulf Coast are getting angry as days roll by with no apparent solid...
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A former Halliburton manager apologized to his family and friends Tuesday before a U.S. judge sentenced him to one year of probation for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Jan. 21)
A former Halliburton manager apologized to his family and friends Tuesday before a federal judge sentenced him to one year of probation for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico....
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Fuel spill fouls Puerto Rico coastline
1. Wide aerial of shoreline, oil washing onto beach
2. Mid of oily waves
3. Workers in white suits cleaning beach
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jorge Baez, Director of Natural Protected Areas, Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico:
"Well, if we...
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Tens of thousands of birds killed in oil spill, ecologists comment
1. Wide of sea pan to rescue workers clearing shore from oil and seaweed
2. Close up of oil in the sea
3. Mid shot of workers clearing up
4. Close up of oil and seaweed
5. Mid shot of workers with pitch forks digging up oil...