Sentences with phrase «coast oil disaster»

For many living and working in this region, the Gulf Coast oil disaster has sparked unpleasant memories of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the area in August 2005.

As his city, state and region struggled this summer to make sense of what the Gulf Coast oil disaster would mean, Kenneth Smith, 50, prepared to hang up his apron and move from feeding people's bellies to feeding their souls.

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And while his stance has certainly mellowed with the years - he apologized for his past comments and joined with churches in 2008 to fight malaria - his suggestion that God may have had a hand in the oil disaster that killed 11 and is threatening the Gulf Coast may take some by surprise.

I'm down on the Gulf coast again, my third trip since the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster began on April 20.

President Obama's pick to oversee the gulf coast oil spill disaster fund is 9/11's special master Kenneth Feinberg.

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.

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.

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

When an oil production platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana coast last week, a collective gasp would have been appropriate — from the residents of coastal Louisiana, who are no strangers to offshore oil rig disasters, from the fossil fuel industry, which is priming itself for a golden age under the incoming Trump Administration, and from the American public, whose oil reliance remains unchecked despite increasing awareness of both the massive downside of fossil fuel use and the increasing availability of clean, renewable energy sources.

The people of the Gulf Coast, the oil industry, and the environment dodged a bullet, because the woefully inadequate, even counterproductive cleanup measures that were in place during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster have not been improved since that catastrophe killed eleven rig workers and ravaged human health and the environment throughout the region.

By this point, nearly two months since the start of the BP oil spill, you've probably seen a lot of video interviews with people from the Gulf Coast telling you how the disaster has royally screwed up their lives.

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F Film Festival: Black Sea Eccentric Fights for Coasts Oil Spill in Istanbul as Cargo Ship Runs Aground The Ups and Downs of the World's Most Isolated Sea Black Sea Floods a Not - So - Natural Disaster Can Turkey's Trashy Coasts Be Transformed?

... Oil Saves New England... During the coldest days this past January, the New England grid was on the brink of disaster, and only pre-planning by ISO - NE, with emergency actions by the Coast Guard and luck kept the lights on.