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CBC.ca

Past problems for company at heart of oil spill The Associated Press A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river has experienced leaks, an explosion and dozens of ... US Warned on Corrosion Checks on Pipeline in Midwest Oil SpillWall Street Journal Company had sketchy record on oil pipelinesSeattle Times Midwest oil messChicago Tribune New York Times (blog) -Reuters -CNN all 2,666 news articles »

Kansas City Star

NYMEX-Oil pauses from strong gain, near $78 ahead of US Q2 GDP Reuters Africa [ID:nTOE66S012] * Oil's gains on Thursday came on the back of a weakening in the US dollar against the euro, boosting demand for oil priced in dollars, ... OIL FUTURES: Nymex Crude Climbs, Helped By Weaker DollarWall Street Journal Oil Gains on Dollar's Weakness (USO)Benzinga New Oil Pares Gain to Trade Unchanged at $76.99 a BarrelBusinessWeek Bloomberg -UPI.com -Reuters all 1,165 news articles »

Reuters

Oil lobbyists spill into halls in DC Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — Even before crude began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the oil industry was waging an uphill fight against $36.5 ... Day 100: The Latest on the Oil SpillNew York Times A final fix to gulf oil leak may be at handLos Angeles Times FACTBOX-Developments in the Gulf of Mexico oil spillReuters BusinessWeek -Washington Post (blog) -Huffington Post (blog) all 4,088 news articles »

Telegraph.co.uk

BP's Hayward Defends Tenure, Spill Response Wall Street Journal BP's numbers have moved up slowly since the oil stopped flowing in recent weeks. One sign of hope: BP still scores higher than Goldman Sachs Group Inc., ... Another Oil Spill In The Gulf AreaPRLog.Org (press release) The BP spill's costly lessonsToronto Star Dudley to follow Hayward's lead at BPEconomic Times Forex Pros -Gerson Lehrman Group -All247News (blog) all 8,788 news articles »

CBC.ca

Lawyers, Far From Gulf, Skirmish on Spill Claims New York Times Blog posts about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But Boise is where the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation was scheduled to meet this ... BP lawsuits over oil spill take center stageReuters Lawyers appeal for rights of venue in oil litigationWall Street Journal US panel asked to consolidate oil spill lawsuitsThe Associated Press Voice of America -Bloomberg -WDSU New Orleans all 254 news articles »

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