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August 25, 2016
Dozens of residents still using wells near Rubis service station

DOZENS of people living near the Rubis Service Station on Robinson Road are still using wells despite ongoing fears that the ground water remains contaminated from a massive gasoline leak that has been festering since late 2012, the Grand Bahama Human Rights Association has said.

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August 18, 2016
Rubis report is complete - but still under review

THE independent review commissioned by the government into the delayed release of a report on the ramifications of a 2012 Rubis gas leak in the Marathon constituency has been completed - but is still under review.

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July 21, 2016
Save The Bays calls on PM to release Rubis report probe

Environmental group Save The Bays (STB) yesterday called on Prime Minister Perry Christie to release the review into the circumstances that led to the delay of a Rubis gasoline leak report, insisting that the "buck stops" with the prime minister.
"More than a year since the government promised them a full and frank explanation, Marathon residents are no closer to understanding why they were left i...

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July 22, 2016
Residents protest outside the Rubis station where the fuel leak occurred

Residents of Marathon, a community in the Bahamian capital of Nassau, are waiting for answers, more than three years after a fuel spill in the centre of their community.

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July 21, 2016
PM called on to release review of Rubis leak

MORE than a year since the government promised them a full and frank explanation, Marathon residents are no closer to understanding why they were left in the dark about a dangerous toxic fuel spill in the centre of their community, according to environmental advocacy group Save The Bays (STB).

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News Article
May 14, 2016
Who can speak to the Rubis leak review

Dear editor,
If Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson can't speak to the progress of the Rubis gasoline leak review, who on Earth can?

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May 12, 2016
Neymour hits at gov't over latest unreleased report on Rubis matter

Former Minister of State for the Environment Phenton Neymour yesterday criticized the government for failing to reveal what caused a delay in the release of a Rubis gasoline leak report completed in 2014 by Black and Veatch.

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News Article
May 06, 2016
'Review of delayed Rubis report a PR exercise'

Environmental attorney Romauld Ferreira said yesterday the independent review conducted into the delay of the Rubis report, announced a year ago, was a public relations exercise.

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News Article
May 04, 2016
AG refuses to speak on Rubis review

One year after Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson announced that a former Supreme Court judge will review the circumstances that led to the delay of a Rubis gasoline leak report, she has refused to respond to questions concerning the status of that review.

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News Article
March 02, 2016
Rubis leak reports don't add up

The government must explain the inconsistency between its new report on the Rubis fuel spill that apparently gave Marathon a "clean bill of health", and the earlier report showing that residents were exposed to high levels of toxic chemicals.

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