Sentences with phrase «of oil disaster»

A must - read article by Mark Hertsgaard in Newsweek reports how BP lied about the size of the oil disaster and the danger posed to its workers, the public and the environment.

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.»

Not exact matches

Say what you will about Exxon's long - time climate change denial, about the lingering damage from the Exxon Valdez disaster, about the fact it's the archetype of Big Oil.

The public outcry from an environmental disaster such as an oil spill or violating the pay laws of your employees will cost your business much more than the expenses of being socially responsible.

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.»

This crackdown is partly due to a string of recent, highly - publicized disasters including the West Virginia coal mine explosion, an oil rig south of Louisiana that blew up, and a fire at a Washington State oil refinery.

And so here we are again — on the brink of another disaster in the wake of plummeting oil prices, rampant OPEC production, and skittish investors.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

«These images of oil - coated disasters need to become reminders of a bygone era, not a sign of things to come,» Gatti said in a statement Sunday.

Rail can't possibly transport 5 - 6 times more oil than what is currently happening, particularly after the two recent disasters and the anger over lack of responsibility and buck - passing by rail authorities.

The Exxon Valdez oil disaster shows how woefully inadequate that sum of money would be.

The recent history of pipeline and oil tanker disasters gives British Columbia good reason to be cautious about approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion,...

A lot of dirty oil is going to come out of the tar sands, be refined in China and create enough Co2 to push the planet into climate disaster.

If oil drops into the $ 20 - to - $ 30 range, he may soon be dealing with the consequences of an oil sands industry, his government's anointed engine of economic growth, suddenly becoming a commercial disaster on a scale that could be unrivaled in Canada's history.

«The Deepwater Horizon disaster has also focused attention on the oil sands» 170 - billion [barrels] of economically recoverable reserves,» said Peter Buchanan and Meny Grauman.

Russia can't afford to let the price of oil fall or it would be a disaster for the Russian economy.

We just can't grasp - or don't want to grasp - the enormity of the environmental disaster the oil sands could create.

JUNE 2012: In a series of reports, Tyee's Nikiforuk details U.S. investigators» damning account of how cultural and procedural failures at Enbridge enabled the Kalamazoo spill to become North America's worst inland oil disaster.

Any given barrel of oil is of more or less equal quality and desirability as any other barrel of oil, the supply is (barring disaster) predictable and constant, and since oil is nonperishable, it doesn't matter if it comes from Alberta or Chile or a geyser on the moon: it still attracts the same price.

Since the July 2013 Lac - Megantic fatal train disaster and other recent incidents involving oil by rail, Transport Canada has faced questions about whether it adequately addressed safety oversight concerns surrounding the transportation of dangerous cargo, which were repeatedly raised in internal audits.

Following the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, Raitt oversaw a series of new safety oversight measures, including restrictions on single - person crews and unattended trains, and improved tracking or labelling of dangerous oil products.

OTTAWA — An internal memorandum to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, prepared more than two years before the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, noted that oil shipments by train were on the verge of expanding by up to 20 times the volume.

Those production cuts, aided by the rolling disaster in Venezuela that continues to take crude oil production off the world market, have, according to the IEA, brought down the world's crude oil stocks within shouting distance of OPEC's goal: the five - year average of those stocks.

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.

Disasters of the magnitude of the Gulf oil spill are hard to get a handle on.

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

The foundation starts its program at a time when 90 % of the state has been declared a disaster area, when drinking water is being bought at prices higher than oil and when 60,000 families have moved from their wrecked farms and ranches to the cities.

Critics of crude oil transportation by rail are in pro-active mode when it comes to disaster preparedness.

The long lines of DOT 111 oil tankers parked outside of the Ezra Prentice complex in Albany are a constant reminder to some residents they are living in the shadow of potential disaster.

«Instead of protecting our waters from another oil spill, like the one that devastated the Gulf, this new federal plan only increases the chances of another disaster taking place,» Cuomo said.

Resource - poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports jumped after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster shut almost all of Japan's nuclear reactors.

«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York State.

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.

Additional Riverkeeper maps showing how Lac - Megantic and Casselton - scale disasters would affect areas of the Hudson Valley are available in the Crude Oil Public Outreach section.

«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York state.

Time Warner Cable News: Syracuse Environmentalists Warn of Disasters Aboard Oil - Carrying Trains

BATON ROUGE — Today, Governor Bobby Jindal sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis of the U.S. Department of Labor requesting through the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 for disaster related workforce training and job placement services and unemployment benefit services for workers displaced as a result of the oil spiOil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 for disaster related workforce training and job placement services and unemployment benefit services for workers displaced as a result of the oil spioil spill.

Albany County hasn't had a major oil train disaster, but County Executive Dan McCoy, erring on the side of «safe, not sorry» called a community «Crude Oil Transportation Summit» to brainstorm and compare notes with officials who have had to deal with such calamitioil train disaster, but County Executive Dan McCoy, erring on the side of «safe, not sorry» called a community «Crude Oil Transportation Summit» to brainstorm and compare notes with officials who have had to deal with such calamitiOil Transportation Summit» to brainstorm and compare notes with officials who have had to deal with such calamities.

A study published Aug. 28, 2017, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds a new dimension to the controversial decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants immediately above the crippled oil well at the seafloor during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

The massive gush of oil that started on April 20 and ran for 86 days was a disaster, obviously, but it was also a grimly informative experiment.

They could also be used as environmental sensors, monitoring an oil spill or chemical contamination site, for instance, and then dissolving once the disaster is cleaned up, saving recovery teams the ordeal of collection.

In fact, the company has found itself at the center of several of the nation's worst oil and gas — related disasters in the last five years.

This disaster is the latest example of a string of accidents that have black - stained the Amazon and occurs within a year of the release of more than 2,300 barrels of oil, also in Loreto.

Elaborating on the potential application of the cellulose aerogels, Asst Prof Duong said, «Oil spills are serious disasters that threaten marine ecosystems.

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

The spill also had a galvanizing effect on lawmakers who passed the federal 1990 Oil Pollution Act to help stave off a repeat of the disaster by increasing oversight, stiffening penalties, mandating contingency planning, and creating new research programs.