BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Officials with the Texas General Land Office (GLO) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) on Tuesday confirmed reports of a significant amount of a tar-like substance having washed ashore in the Corpus Christi area. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to the Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS E-edition by clicking here or …
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Mar 27 2014
Area unlikely to see major effects of spill
BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com As of press time Thursday, roughly 170,000 gallons of tar-like oil was floating around Galveston Bay, located just 400 miles northeast of the Lower Laguna Madre. The spill occurred over the weekend when a barge carrying around 900,000 gallons of oil collided with a vessel in the Houston Ship …
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