Sentences with phrase «bp oil disaster»

The Gulf of Mexico is still recovering from the devastating 2010 BP oil disaster.

As they cope with the massive BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the least we could do is keep one of their most important nesting areas safe.

Much of the damage wrought by the BP oil disaster will be more along those lines — the deadliest impacts will take place in ways no photographer can easily capture.

The 2010 BP oil disaster gave us a stark reminder of the dangers of offshore oil drilling.

Peter Berg's movie about the BP oil disaster was his more successful film this year, and this kind of macho filmmaking was clearly something that voters responded to in Deadpool as well.

Just a sample of what an imbecile he is, he stated that the BP oil disaster was an act of GOD!

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In addition, Mui reported on major international stories, including the Greek financial crisis and Brexit, as well as national disasters such as the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

Canadian CEOs agreed that the BP disaster will lead to much tougher regulation of the entire North American oil extraction industry, with a mean of 6 on the 7 - point agreement scale.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

In the wake of the BP disaster, Andy Revkin wrote that «the oil disaster doesn't belong to BP, or to President Obama or his predecessor; we all own it.»

Hodgson points to disasters like the Gulf oil spill and the West Virginia mine collapse where inquiries found flawed governance at BP (BP) and Massey Energy, respectively.

The BP oil spill is already infamous as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history.

The outgoing BP chief was answering questions on the oil spill's implications for the UK, including whether a similar disaster could occur with operations in the North Sea.

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

BP lost $ 17 billion in the three months to June as it faced huge clean - up costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

Maher, on his HBO show last night, suggests that the teabaggers, including Sarah Palin, should wear their «drill, baby, drill» shirts down to the Gulf, and help clean the oil off the birds from the BP disaster.

But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again.

Well, that's it for this episode, get your science news at http://www.ScientificAmerican.com where you can read our ongoing In - Depth Report on the BP Gulf oil disaster.

That would make BP's Gulf spill already worse than the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which discharged roughly 11 million gallons of oil off Alaska.

The Coast Guard gave BP the go - ahead this morning, and the latest attempt to seal off the Gulf oil leak that is quickly turning into the biggest ecological disaster in history began at 2 p.m. eastern time.

The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, marked the beginning of the worst oil disaster in American history.

BP and federal officials are employing a variety of clean - up techniques to limit the environmental impact of the massive oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

A truth that floated to the surface during the BP energy company's Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, along with hundreds of millions of liters of oil, is that the world does not have a ready replacement for conventional forms of fuel such as crude oil and likely will not have one for some time, particularly as demand for energy grows worldwide.

The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.

In what is perhaps the worst man - made environmental disaster in American history, the BP spill ultimately spewed 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before the well was sealed.

This includes programs for maneuvering robotic subs (as with the efforts to contain BP's Deepwater oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico) or sophisticated mapping tools for emergency - response crews using mobile devices to assess earthquake damage (as in Haiti).

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now cost BP $ 1.25 bn (# 870m), as its much - criticised chief executive vows to spend «what it takes» to fix the Deepwater Horizon disaster that has caused growing anger across America.

More than half a decade ago, a BP - operated oil rig spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, marking the largest spill of its kind in history and an environmental disaster of epic proportions.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

Peter Berg puts a blue - collar spin on the 2010 BP oil spill in this immensely entertaining disaster epic.

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have carved out a niche as re-constructors of real - life disasters, from a Navy Seal op in 2014's Lone Survivor to the BP oil spill in last year's Deepwater Horizon.

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.

These pieces offer a way of making sense of the world following disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.

But the city also has developed a myriad of local institutions that defy the disaster tourism inspired by Katrina and the BP oil spill.

The oil disaster doesn't belong to BP, or to President Obama or his predecessor; we all own it.

In a column on The Times Op - Ed page, four scientists from a team of specialists independently assessing the volume of oil gushing from BP's destroyed seabed well provide more evidence that the company can not be trusted to put the public interest ahead of its corporate interests as this disaster continues to unfold.

The Obama administration, clearly hoping that pressure tests on the capped BP seabed oil well succeed, is trying to pivot its online narrative on the disaster from response to recovery.

On the eve of Senate hearings examining the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon rig and the unabated release of oil from the damaged seafloor well, President Obama ordered a team of government officials and scientists led by Energy Secretary Steven Chu to head to Houston this week to confer with BP's brain trust on next steps to stem the unfolding environmental disaster.

BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster indicates that the best efforts of the oil industry are incapable of preventing environmental calamities from offshore drilling.

Michael Levi, an energy analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, pointed out the challenge in an NPR interview yesterday, questioning calls for Obama to use the BP disaster to do something President George W. Bush failed to do after the September 11 attacks: galvanize a sustained American push to escape its oil daze.

You'd have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking our oil addiction.

Brad Johnson, then writing for Think Progress, explained that Witt O'Brien's PIER Systems was «being used by Unified Command for media and public information management» during the Deepwater Horizon spill in an article titled, «BP's Secret Army Of Oil Disaster Contractors.»

Crew members from U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Harry Claiborne operate an oil skimmer collecting oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

BP used two kinds of toxic chemical dispersants to sink the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527, manufactured by Nalco Environmental Solutions.

Over the last two months the U.S. Congress has been engaged in a great operatic drama over what many have called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history: the BP Gulf oil spill.

Last week U.S Congressman angrily grilled BP CEO Tony Hayward about the causes of the disaster and BPs inability to shut off the oil flow.

A similar scenario played out in the months following BP's Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Oil leasing and drilling has picked up again in the Gulf of Mexico, following a hiatus after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout disaster in 20Oil leasing and drilling has picked up again in the Gulf of Mexico, following a hiatus after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout disaster in 20oil blowout disaster in 2010.

It has long been the common practice to grant offshore oil and gas drillers such exclusions, and it probably had little to do with the disaster that BP's alleged shoddy drilling practices has precipitated.

In May 2010, as oil continued to gush into the Gulf from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Obama canceled a pending lease sale that would have opened Virginia's coastline to the dangers of offshore oil drilling.