Rivers of oil and PR campaigns notwithstanding.

FORBES: Why the Arkansas Pipeline Spill Won't Hurt Exxon Mobil's Reputation

In the mid-nineties, the Justice Department filed two lawsuits against Koch Industries, claiming that it was responsible for more than three hundred oil spills, which had released an estimated three million gallons of oil into lakes and rivers.

NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

To replace earlier finds, oil companies moved offshore, where rivers have been depositing petroleum-forming sediments for millions of years.

FORBES: Going deep

Never put chemicals or oil down the drain -- they will contaminate rivers and then make its toxic way into our oceans.

CNN: The stark reality of a throw-away society

Marisol Perez Tello and Veronika Mendoza visiting crude-permeated rivers in the area as well as the deteriorating oil pipeline that pumps crude to the Pacific coast.

NPR: Peru Declares Amazon Oil Contamination Emergency

Some Ogonis are disinclined to forget years of mistrust and others are in talks to clean up the oil spills that have been left untended, still oozing into farmland and rivers after 15 years.

ECONOMIST: A payout could encourage others

The twin pipelines that will deliver the oil and gas to the island's southern tip cross around 1, 000 rivers and streams, many of which are used by spawning salmon.

ECONOMIST: Russian energy

Craig told me that the skin infections and gastrointestinal problems attributed by the plaintiffs to oil pollution were more likely caused by sewer lines that run into local streams and rivers.

NEWYORKER: Reversal of Fortune

As in the Gulf, the oil deposits were created during a period of flourishing plant life 80 million years ago, when rivers draining Africa and South America dumped sediments into the narrow and shallow sea then separating the two continents.

FORBES: Going deep