A Beijing-based biotechnology company is in the limelight for providing 23 tons of oil-eating bacteria to help clean up the 183-square-kilometer (114-square-mile) slick around China\u2019s northern Dalian port, after two oil pipelines exploded there last week.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s name, called Weiyeyuan in pinyin, is Beijing Micro-Cleaner Biotechnology Co. It\u2019s young: An introduction on its website says it was founded just last year and that the company makes \u201cenvironmentally friendly microbial products.\u201d<\/p>\n
A receptionist who answered the phone confirmed Weiyeyuan was providing the microbes, which she called \u201cemergency leak treatment,\u201d but said the person authorized to speak on the matter wasn\u2019t available. Its Chinese-language website also included two news stories trumpeting its latest high-profile outing at Dalian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Associated Press reports on the clean-up progress of the major Dalian oil spill: China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday that the pipeline that exploded and caused the oil spill last Friday had resumed operations. The blast had reduced oil shipments from part of China’s strategic oil reserves to the rest of the country. The cause […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[132,6,5],"tags":[2535,14797,1068],"class_list":["post-86068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-crisis","category-sci-tech","category-society","tag-dalian","tag-oil-spills","tag-petroleum","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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