Sentences with phrase «exxon oil spill cleanup»

Not exact matches

Cleanup technologies, from hot - water washing to fertilizer, were applied to the mess left by the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard was near enough that a cleanup effort could start immediately.

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.

Since then, 22 families have been evacuated from their homes, the appearance of oiled birds and wildlife has raised concerns the oil has spread beyond the neighborhood and we've learned that a legal technicality exempts Exxon from being required to contribute money to a federal oil spill cleanup fund.

Exxon Censoring Media at Arkansas Oil Spill Site UALR Public Radio reports on how the flight restrictions will limit the media's ability to take follow - up footage to compare and see how the cleanup is progressing.

Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.

bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund

First, most of the «allegations» that Exxon Mobil is referring to are actually criticisms of how the company didn't pay into a federal oil spill cleanup fund for the dilbit that traveled through the Pegasus pipeline.

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

Exxon's control of the oil spill response is reminiscent of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, when the polluter, BP, effectively controlled the response and cleanup.

With BP in the news for their lies about the safety of chemical dispersant used during the Gulf oil spill, it is hard not to think that Exxon is also lying to the public and their cleanup workers about the safety of the air and water poisoned by this spill.

By CAROL LINNITT DeSmog Canada Tuesday, April 02, 2013 As Think Progress has just reported, a bizarre technicality allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleanup after the company's Pegasus pipeline released 12,000 barrels of tar sands oil and water into the town of Mayflower, Arkansas.

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UPDATE: I'm seeing more and more press reports covering Exxon's statement that they will «pay all costs for the Arkansas oil spill cleanup.»

Exxon may indeed end up paying for all of the oil spill cleanup in Mayflower, but they are not paying the 8 - cents - per - barrel fee for the tar sands oil, as they would if they were transporting conventional oil.