Crude oil spilling out of its Macondo well is tormenting the already-bruised shores of Louisiana.

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It was the only company operating in Ogoniland, and no oil has been pumped there since, yet the locals continue to complain of oil spilling from the maze of pipes criss-crossing their land.

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Yesterday, we learned that a procedure to prevent any more oil from spilling with a cement plug appears to have succeeded.

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Last month, the MS Nordkapp cruise ship hit rocks near Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, spilling diesel oil into the bay.

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Winds and tides proved more effective at dispersing the oil than official efforts had been at preventing it from spilling.

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The blowout on that drilling rig killed 11 and led to the spilling of more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf.

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While much of the 2, 900 tons of gold produced annually is merely added to the stacks in London and Zurich vaults, the world is burning through, and sometimes spilling, a record 88 million barrels of oil a day.

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