Sunday, April 29, 2012

Thousands of tons spilled at oil field in Russia

In this Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 file photo, an oil spill near the town of Usinsk, 1500 kilometers (930 miles) northeast of Moscow. Russian environmental officials say April 23, 2012, the size of an oil spill in Russia's north where oil was gushing for two days before it was capped could be up to 2,000 tons. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)Up to 2,000 tons of oil have spilled from a major field in northern Russia after workers struggled to contain the leak for two days, officials said.


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