Sentences with phrase «spills oil spill cleanup»

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Ottawa could withhold funding for affordable housing, public transit, oil spill cleanup and more — unless Premier John Horgan buckles.

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 shipped.

New York state's comptroller is urging federal authorities to strengthen safety measures against oil spills and require trains to carry sufficient insurance to cover cleanup costs from major accidents.

Numerous factors complicated cleanup, including the size of the spill, the remote location and a lack of readily available equipment and effective chemical dispersants to dissolve the thick oil.

Two earlier prizes focused on oil spill cleanup and ocean health.

«New smart coating could make oil - spill cleanup faster and more efficient.»

J.P.S. Badyal and colleagues point out that oil - spill cleanup crews often use absorbents, like clays, straw and wool to sop up oil, but these materials aren't very efficient because they also sop up a lot of water.

«Newly discovered «blue whirl» fire tornado burns cleaner for reduced emissions: Findings could lead to better oil spill cleanup.»

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.»

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

«Experts successfully test a novel oil spill cleanup technology: Potential for the Flame Refluxer to efficiently burn oil spills while also minimizing water and air pollution.»

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 spilOil Cleanup X Challenge prize to a manufacturing team from the United States that developed technology for quickly cleaning up oil spiloil 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.

The United States and the United Nations are sending experts to Bangladesh to assess the impact and potential cleanup of a serious oil spill that threatens the Sundarbans, a globally important mangrove ecosystem and home to endangered river dolphins.

After the spill BP responded with thousands of cleanup people, thousands of boats and thousands of kilometers of oil - containment booms.

GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy — When the Costa Concordia finally leaves Giglio Island sometime early next week, it will be traveling with one of the most impressive oil spill cleanup and environmental disaster response convoys ever assembled.

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.

Although the price surge coincides with the cleanup of the March 24 oil spill off Alaska, the link between the two is unclear, Wilkins said.

When an oil spill devastated the Gulf Coast's wildlife, budding ornithologist Bouler, 11, wrote to the National Audubon Society and volunteered her help: she would draw pictures for people who contributed to the cleanup campaign.

The illustrations are quirky but appealing, and the information about the oil spill and cleanup efforts is factual.

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 spills happen without any advance notice, and the first wave of cleanup — all mechanical — begins within hours.

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 chosOil 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 chSpill 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 chspill 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 chosoil 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 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 dollars.

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.

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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.

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.

Arkansas» Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the «independent analysis of the cleanup» of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O'Brien's, a firm with a history of oil spill cover - ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals.

(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.

At that ministerial, key agreements involving Arctic search and rescue, oil spill preparedness and cleanup, and inclusion of non-Arctic nations as Arctic Council observers were advanced.

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.

The spill presented a unique cleanup challenge, because 6B was carrying bitumen, a thick crude oil mined from Canada's tar sands region that is thinned with a cocktail of liquid chemicals to form diluted bitumen, or dilbit.

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.

To add insult to injury, if an oil spill were to occur, the cleanup expense (like all other expenses) would be deducted from the amount of PRRT to be paid, or if no PRRT is yet being paid, would be added to the PRRT «credits» that reduce any future PRRT payments.

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.»