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.
Not exact matches
Clean Harbors is the North American leader
in providing response services for environmental emergencies of any scale on land or water — from the
cleanup and removal of a single mercury bottle to a large - scale multiphase containment and
cleanup of a coastal
oil spill.
In the case of an oil spill cleanup, the costs are likely to be directly incurred by an insurance company, but the premiums paid for that insurance come at the expense of the value of the oil transportation service — the higher the expected clean - up costs from oil spills, the higher insurance premiums will be, and this will mean higher pipeline tolls, which in turn implies lower profits, taxes, and royalties on the products shippe
In the case of an
oil spill cleanup, the costs are likely to be directly incurred by an insurance company, but the premiums paid for that insurance come at the expense of the value of the
oil transportation service — the higher the expected clean - up costs from
oil spills, the higher insurance premiums will be, and this will mean higher pipeline tolls, which
in turn implies lower profits, taxes, and royalties on the products shippe
in turn implies lower profits, taxes, and royalties on the products shipped.
But now, a team of researchers
in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering say their discovery of a type of fire tornado they call a «blue whirl» could lead to beneficial new approaches for reducing carbon emissions and improving
oil spill cleanup.
A newly designed metallic soap reacts to a magnetic field, a first
in soap research that could lead to better control of
cleanup chemicals
in situations like aquatic
oil spills.
According to Scott Fields of the USCG Research and Development Center «
in - situ burning is already a very successful process, but we want to improve the air quality for our first responders who are engaged
in oil spill cleanup.»
After the Exxon Valdez
oil spill in Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard was near enough that a
cleanup effort could start immediately.
In 2011, X Prize awarded the Wendy Schmidt
Oil Cleanup X Challenge prize to a manufacturing team from the United States that developed technology for quickly cleaning up oil spil
Oil Cleanup X Challenge prize to a manufacturing team from the United States that developed technology for quickly cleaning up
oil spil
oil spills.
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.
None of these methods can prevent
oil spills, but they've helped make
cleanups more efficient and predictable and helped prevent catastrophes
in Alaska, off the coast of Oregon, and elsewhere.
MONDAY, August 23 (Health.com)--
Cleanup workers exposed to
spilled oil may be at long - term risk for breathing trouble and other health problems, according to a new study examining the aftereffects of a 2002
oil spill in Spain.
The study results «indicate that participation
in the
cleanup of
oil spills can have undesirable effects on health,» says the lead researcher, Joan Albert Barberà , MD, but he stresses that the
cleanup workers
in the study weren't sick.
In addition to CareFRESH small animal bedding and CareFRESH Complete foods, Absorption Corporation also manufactures products for
oil and hazardous
spill cleanup and control,
oil / water filtration, hydro - mulch and packaging.
Oil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chos
Oil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be ch
Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a
spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be ch
spill is (or,
in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration
oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chos
oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosen.
I'd like to know if this penalty, and the billions spent on the
cleanup of Prince William Sound will have resulted
in true mitigation of the damage caused by the 1989
oil spill.
In a report published in Scientific Reports, researchers describe how they exposed herring and pink salmon embryos for a short period to levels of oil contaminants similar to the «safe» levels detected in samples of Prince William Sound seawater after the spill cleanu
In a report published
in Scientific Reports, researchers describe how they exposed herring and pink salmon embryos for a short period to levels of oil contaminants similar to the «safe» levels detected in samples of Prince William Sound seawater after the spill cleanu
in Scientific Reports, researchers describe how they exposed herring and pink salmon embryos for a short period to levels of
oil contaminants similar to the «safe» levels detected
in samples of Prince William Sound seawater after the spill cleanu
in samples of Prince William Sound seawater after the
spill cleanup.
Here's the latest from local and national media on the ongoing
cleanup of the ExxonMobil
oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas.
In a smart recap of the controversy over tar sands oil, Maddow uses the Mayflower oil spill as a lead - in to a discussion on the tar sands oil spill on the Kalamazoo River oil spill, which has become the most expensive oil spill in US history with cleanup costs surpassing $ 765 million dollar
In a smart recap of the controversy over tar sands
oil, Maddow uses the Mayflower
oil spill as a lead -
in to a discussion on the tar sands oil spill on the Kalamazoo River oil spill, which has become the most expensive oil spill in US history with cleanup costs surpassing $ 765 million dollar
in to a discussion on the tar sands
oil spill on the Kalamazoo River
oil spill, which has become the most expensive
oil spill in US history with cleanup costs surpassing $ 765 million dollar
in US history with
cleanup costs surpassing $ 765 million dollars.
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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.
(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.
On March 23, Reuters reported that
cleanup crews had quarantined a portion of the heavily trafficked Houston Ship Channel
in response to a significant
oil spill.
Picture credits: «Natural Gas» by Marcelo Rampazzo, plug -
in fuel cell EV by Asianewsphoto via World Expo, Dalian
oil spill cleanup by National Geographic, China Development Bank by From Sandton to Shanghai, power grid by China Hourly, accounting cartoon by Randy Glasbergen via immobilienblasen.
InsideClimate's The Dilbit Disaster explores the million gallons of
oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River
in July 2010, which triggered the most expensive
cleanup in U.S. history — more than $ 800 million.
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.
We ensure that never again can a company like BP take a tax deduction for money spent cleaning up its own mess
in the Gulf of Mexico, and we close the loophole that lets tar sands
oil pipeline operators avoid paying the
oil spill cleanup tax.»
As of right now,
oil companies engaged
in cleanup operations after a
spill (one particular one comes to mind) are not required to disclose which chemicals comprise the products they are using to contain or break up the
oil.
More about
oil spills: Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brook
oil spills: Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Br
spills: Gulf
Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brook
Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon
Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of
Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brook
Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason
Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brook
Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Br
Spills Are Bad: Surface
Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed
in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brook
Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And
Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brook
Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Br
Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats
Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brook
Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Br
Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an
Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brook
Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez —
in Brooklyn
Photo: Flickr, CC A Bigger Carrot for Innovation The X-Prize Foundation's mission is to «bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity», and right now, a breakthrough
in oil spill cleanup certainly would make the world a better place, so
Members of a Shoreline
Cleanup and Assessment Team removes
oil from a beach
in Port Fourchon, La. — part of ongoing response efforts to minimize shoreline impacts from the Deepwater Horizon / BP
oil spill, May 23, 2010.
What to Wear When You're Fighting an
Oil Spill Here, I spoke to Dr. Solomon at a marina
in Venice, Louisiana (a main hub of the
cleanup effort) about what the fishermen should ideally be wearing:
And if
oil were
spilled in the winter,
cleanup would take place
in the total darkness that engulfs the region during those months.
Despite
spilling tens, if not hundreds of thousands of gallons of
oil and chemicals into an Arkansas neighborhood, thanks to a loophole
in a law from 1980, ExxonMobil will not be paying into a federal
oil spill cleanup fund because the
oil they
spilled is not the right type of
oil.
via: AFP / Yahoo News
Oil Spills One More Reason
Oil Spills are Bad: Surface
Cleanup Can Make it Worse for Fish Below 58,000 Gallons of
Oil Spill into San Francisco Bay Black Tides - The Worst
Oil Spills in History
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«I know for a fact that the
cleanup crews (
in this latest
spill) were wearing waders because the
oil was so deep — the bitumen mess was so deep,» says Crystal.
Absorbing up to 180 times its own weight
in organic matter, the sponge is light and tough and has the potential to significantly enhance
oil spill cleanup.
Citing a disturbing (and unfortunately expected) lack of public transparency on the part of ExxonMobil
in the aftermath of the Yellowstone River
oil spill, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer has withdrawn state participation from the command team directing
cleanup of the 40,000 gallon pipeline rupture.
In their National Energy Board application last year, the company claimed that a positive effect of
oil spills is job creation, stating «
Spill response and
cleanup creates business and employment opportunities for affected communities, regions, and
cleanup service providers.»
The City argues that the MOE should have imposed those
cleanup costs on the polluters, meaning either those who caused the
spill, or were negligent
in cleaning it up, or the province itself for its lax regulation of the
oil tank and / or of the original polluter's
cleanup.
Initial assignment
in Biloxi, Mississippi on
cleanup efforts for Gulf of Mexico
Oil Spill.