Sentences with phrase «after the spill bp»

After the spill BP responded with thousands of cleanup people, thousands of boats and thousands of kilometers of oil - containment booms.

Not exact matches

Take what happened after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico: «The BP guy who was running the cleanup in Alabama saw a segment about us on Discovery Channel on Monday night, called us on Tuesday, we were there on Wednesday and had a purchase order by Friday,» recalls Dave Kroetsch, Aeryon co-founder and CEO.

BP took the latter route after Hayward became a liability due to remarks that downplayed the scale of the spill and its affect on his private life.

Look at Tony Hayward's performance after the BP oil spill.

In reading these quotes and reactions, I see strong parallels to others in and around the oilsands industry after the BP spill.

Not so fast, says Ken Feinberg, the attorney who oversaw claims administration after 9/11, the BP oil spill, the Boston Marathon bombing and most recently, the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

BP has been complaining for a long time that many claims filed after its April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were phony.

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

Latest cases in point: BP, now fighting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, after one of its leased rigs exploded and sank.

For those of us in the know, the absence is puzzling: why have so few candidates used low - cost online ads to list - build among oil spill newsreaders (after all, BP is doing it)?

New York City is suing BP over the drop in its stock price after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying its pension funds lost $ 39 million.

Even after the financial meltdown, the BP oil spill and the Massey mine disaster, these guys still want more deregulation.

During the months and months of BP's ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and even after it was finally halted, researchers struggled to determine how the oil hidden below the ocean surface was moving, and whether it was disrupting Gulf ecosystems.

In a 2006 interview with this reporter after the Prudhoe Bay spill, published in Fortune, BP's chief executive of American operations, Robert Malone, said, «There is no doubt in my mind, what happened may not have broken the law, but it broke our values.»

Researchers said they used oil concentrations similar to those measured in the gulf shortly after the spill, which oil company BP disputed on Friday.

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $ 17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six - year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

She said there are numerous examples of groundbreaking studies that are not replicable, such as human health studies after the dropping of atomic bombs in Hiroshima or the ecological effects of the BP PLC Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Soon after the spill began, Dwayne Spradlin, president and chief executive of InnoCentive, a company based in Waltham, Mass., that specializes in crowdsourcing, approached top - ranking BP officials about collaborating on solutions.

After the BP spill, workers clean up the beach along Gulf Shores in southern Alabama in June 2010.

Unusual adrenal and lung conditions seen in dead dolphins in the months after the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill point to the oil as the cause.

(Adds price reaction, analyst) HOUSTON / LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters)- BP Plc will face a maximum fine of $ 13.7 billion under the Clean Water Act for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, several billion dollars less than feared, after a judge ruled that it was smaller than the U.S.

The PhyloChip, which was developed by Andersen and several other Berkeley Lab scientists, has been used for a number of medical, agricultural, and environmental purposes, including understanding air pollution, the ecology of coral reefs, and environmental conditions of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill.

This disaster is just as devastating as the oily sheen that dominated the news after the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and I am so grateful to Wendy and XPRIZE for identifying acidification as the next big ocean priority the U.S. must address.

Nicolas Cage is set to take on Big Oil this summer in first time director Austin Stark's upcoming political drama The Runner, and you can watch the first trailer right here after the official synopsis... In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, an idealistic but imperfect New Orleans politician (Nicolas Cage) finds his -LSB-...]

Cage plays Colin Pryce (making the film's tagline — «Power always comes at a price» — that much funnier), a Louisiana politician who comes to national attention after an impassioned speech to Congress about the devastating impact of the BP oil spill on local communities.

Finally, while BP has said it will pay for the clean - up and direct damages to those affected by the spill, the Obama Administration is going a step further and threatening to force BP to cut its dividend and «repay the salaries of any workers laid off because of the six - month moratorium on deepwater exploratory drilling imposed by the U.S. government after the spill.»

The paranoia after the BP oil spill is another.

After its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP was forced to cut its dividend.

He bought oil producer BP PLC after the Deepwater Horizon spill that spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

When BP engaged with investors after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, it made clear that its efforts were dedicated to costs — lowering the costs of litigation, lowering the costs of the judgments against it, and lowering the costs of its debt burden as it sought to lower interest expenses by turning unsecured debt into secured debt.

ETF for India, China, Vietnam, etc.)-- Vanguard is good; I am in process of replacing the TD eFunds with Vanguard ETFs (I should have done it much earlier but they were under in my RRSP, it should have not mattered, the corresponding ETFs were low too)-- Big companies are good (McDonalds, Starbucks, Pfizer, WM) until they are not so perhaps I should get rid of them and buy more Vanguard ETFs — Buying distressed companies could be a winning proposition but have I very mixed results so better not (BP and Transocean bought after the oil spill, Nortel, BlackBerry, and Nokia — BP and NOKIA good, Transocean under not much, but under, BB very, very bad, and Nortel no comments)-- Berkshire is very good as it is a kind of ETF but what would happen after Warren Buffett (who would have thought AIG would need to be bailed out and the shareholders wiped out in the process or other cases where individuals brought companies down for example Barings the oldest bank in England)

Just months after the BP spill last year, an Enbridge pipeline spilled nearly a million gallons of oil into a creek flowing into the Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek, Michigan.

Barton embarrassed even some of his Republican colleagues when he apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward during his testimony to Congress after the Gulf oil spill.

After the BP oil spill in 2010, Podesta was hired as part of the oil giant's team to launch a public - relations offensive.

The Gulf of Mexico is still under a drilling moratorium after the BP oil spill but plans to step up deep - water exploration on the other side of the world, in the South China Sea, remain largely unchanged.

Similarly, did morale plunge at BP — and mental health claims rise — after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, or at Exxon Mobil after the company was regularly cited for funding organizations whose raison d'être was to discredit state - of - the - art, peer - reviewed climate science?

Just as we saw after the 2010 BP oil spill in the gulf, after the shock of the initial news of the oil spill dissipated, frustration and anger led to satire and comedy.

Bill Kristol Says Offshore Drilling Should be Brought Closer to Land The conservative thought leader Bill Kristol has made a remarkably idiotic statement in the wake of the BP oil spill — saying that «If we hadn't stopped closer - in drilling after the Santa Barbara accident 40 years ago — we've had these Congressional restrictions until 2008, for 40 years — we'd have more drilling closer in which is probably less dangerous, less treacherous than trying to drill 50 miles out from the coast,» in a discussion on Fox News.

Photo: BP Only Bad News on the Oil Spill Today After some good news in the past couple of days, BP is going back to what it has accustomed us to over the past few months: bad news.

Where will the BP spill be a year after the Deepwater Horizon first exploded on April 20th?

We just got a glimmer of hope with the BP oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped — even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected — but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen after three months of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.

My initial reaction after watching Obama address the nation over the BP Gulf spill last night seemed to be similar to many others — right idea, lacking details or depth.

After the BP accident in the gulf last year highlighted the consequences of a catastrophic ocean spill, American and Canadian regulators focused on the special challenges in the Arctic.

When expert after expert cautioned that when it comes to the BP spill, we're not out of the woods yet, they meant it.

And then BP, spurred on by activist scientists, NASA imaging, and angry citizens, would «revise» its estimates... until they more closely resembled the figure they first came up with just hours after the spill began.

# 1: «We know that some coastal areas in the northern Gulf were degraded by the BP spill, and when storms come, toxics that have accumulated in the bottom sediment could reenter the water column, as has been observed decades after the Exxon Valdez disaster.»

So far in its coverage of the BP Gulf spill, the media has made much of the fact that the company's daily profits are higher than its daily cleanup costs, and that after raking in $ 17 billion in profits last year alone, such costs are but a drop in the bucket.

Extracting, transporting, and burning gasoline creates all kinds of externalities that we pay for elsewhere — in health costs at the hospital, in wear and tear in roads, in environmental cleanup after disasters like the BP spill, and for the pollution that impacts society at large.

It is now alleged in a Louisiana court filing that, after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, senior BP executive David Rainey looked up the size of the spill on Wikipedia rather than ask experts for their professional opinions.

And we saw that for example with the BP British Petroleum oil crisis, where BP realized that after the oil spill everybody was talking about them on Twitter, everybody, and there was even a fake Twitter account parodying BP's response (@BPGlobalPR — still active with 182,033 followers).