Sentences with phrase «after the oil spill»

Di Franco and his Sicily - based crew of 70 sailors spend most of their time patrolling the waters around Italy, cracking down on illegal fishing and cleaning up after oil spills.
«We found that dolphins dying after the oil spill had distinct adrenal gland and lung lesions that were not present in the stranded dolphins from other areas.»
Scientists reviewed data on measured oil concentrations in surface water samples collected in Prince William Sound after the oil spill and during the 1989 herring spawning season.
But when she returned home from her monitoring efforts about a week after the oil spill began, she saw stains on her clothes she'd never seen before.
We all know that marine bacteria can assist in cleaning up after oil spills.
«Super bacteria» clean up after oil spills
Norwegian researchers in Trondheim have achieved surprising results by exploiting nature's own ability to clean up after oil spills.
Scientists know that marine bacteria can assist in cleaning up after oil spills.
«For example, this discovery gives us an easier way to understand how an ecosystem is recovering after an oil spill,» said Jason Link, lead author of the study and NOAA Fisheries senior scientist for ecosystem management.
It is often thought to be safe, because as the ads proclaim, it is used to clean the sticky black oil found on water fowl after an oil spill.
After its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP was forced to cut its dividend.
A lot of companies involved in the oil and gas business have been hit pretty hard after the oil spill.
ETF for India, China, Vietnam, etc.)-- Vanguard is good; I am in process of replacing the TD eFunds with Vanguard ETFs (I should have done it much earlier but they were under in my RRSP, it should have not mattered, the corresponding ETFs were low too)-- Big companies are good (McDonalds, Starbucks, Pfizer, WM) until they are not so perhaps I should get rid of them and buy more Vanguard ETFs — Buying distressed companies could be a winning proposition but have I very mixed results so better not (BP and Transocean bought after the oil spill, Nortel, BlackBerry, and Nokia — BP and NOKIA good, Transocean under not much, but under, BB very, very bad, and Nortel no comments)-- Berkshire is very good as it is a kind of ETF but what would happen after Warren Buffett (who would have thought AIG would need to be bailed out and the shareholders wiped out in the process or other cases where individuals brought companies down for example Barings the oldest bank in England)
Everyone has watched the commercial of good citizens cleaning birds and seals with Dawn after an oil spill.
Although the technology has been used in a number of applications ranging from cleaning waterfowl after oil spills to cleaning oyster beds, Thera - Clean has developed it for use in bathing pets.
Fish that swim more slowly more easily become prey to predators, so this could explain the collapse of herring and decline in salmon after the oil spill.
(08/08/2011) Less than a year and a half after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration has bucked warnings from environmentalists to grant preliminary approval to oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, to drill off the Arctic coast.
4:06 p.m. — ExxonMobil Pipeline representative Larry Hawthorne reports the incident to the National Response Center, a branch of the U.S. Coast Guard that pipeline companies must notify after oil spills.
«Our concern is that the impact on threatened and endangered species is going to continue for a long time after the oil spill is in the news,» a lawyer for the groups says.
Months after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, recognized as the worst oil spill in Oil History, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for an end to the ban on drilling in the Gulf:
«We shouldn't add insult to injury after an oil spill by using dispersants that put wildlife and people at risk.
And we saw that for example with the BP British Petroleum oil crisis, where BP realized that after the oil spill everybody was talking about them on Twitter, everybody, and there was even a fake Twitter account parodying BP's response (@BPGlobalPR — still active with 182,033 followers).

Not exact matches

Look at Tony Hayward's performance after the BP oil spill.
Black Elk struggled financially after a November 2012 explosion on a Gulf of Mexico rig killed three workers and caused an oil spill.
After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration teamed up with the X-Prize Foundation to offer a $ 1.4 million prize to the group that produced the most efficient oil - recovery solution.
The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.
Not so fast, says Ken Feinberg, the attorney who oversaw claims administration after 9/11, the BP oil spill, the Boston Marathon bombing and most recently, the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
Since then, the Trans Mountain project has pitted the NDP - led governments in Alberta and British Columbia against each other after B.C. proposed new oil spill regulations that would effectively block new oil pipelines from reaching the West Coast.
According to Gawker, Costner was inspired to create a device that would separate water from oil after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and his own film «Waterworld.»
MAYFLOWER, Ark. — Exxon Mobil Corp. says crews are working to contain and clean up an oil spill near Mayflower, Ark., after its Pegasus pipeline ruptured Friday afternoon.
In this case, the pipeline expansion was further complicated by the fact that a related Enbridge pipeline involved in oil imports from Canada spilled nearly one million gallons of oil in Marshall, Mich., in July 2010 after tape intended to prevent corrosion on the pipeline failed.
The Nebraska decision comes a week after a major spill on another TransCanada oil line.
The premier might think everything is fine after today's announcement, but we're still a long, long way from the oil spill response capacity people in B.C. demand.
The company in November shut down its 590,000 - barrel - per - day Keystone pipeline, which links Alberta's oil sands to U.S. refineries, after a spill in South Dakota and was ordered later that month to operate at reduced pressure.
Shares in the oil drilling services firm Transocean (RIG) are rising by about 2.5 % premarket after the company said it had reached two settlements related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP)-- The U.S. government has fined Enbridge Inc. more than $ 1.8 million after accusing the Canadian oil transport company of missing deadlines for pipeline inspections following a gigantic oil spill in southwestern Michigan.
BP has been complaining for a long time that many claims filed after its April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were phony.
At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.
Latest cases in point: BP, now fighting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, after one of its leased rigs exploded and sank.
Obama's reign began with him having to deal with one costly disaster after another, SARS, the Gulf Oil Spill, Mortgage collapse, banks and huge car companies nearly going bankrupt and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The $ 3.8 billion pipeline drew international protests after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe told government officials that the pipeline would desecrate sacred burial grounds and voiced concerns about possible oil spills.
After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Shedd participated in the wildlife recovery efforts and took in many orphaned pups.
After Barton's most impolitic statement at last week's Capitol Hill hearing on the Gulf oil spill, the party was quick to jump online with a plea to fund TV ads against Republicans «sympathetic» to the petroleum giant.
For those of us in the know, the absence is puzzling: why have so few candidates used low - cost online ads to list - build among oil spill newsreaders (after all, BP is doing it)?
New York City is suing BP over the drop in its stock price after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying its pension funds lost $ 39 million.
Over the weekend, Cuomo and state environmental officials toured the Hudson River in a motorboat after a report that some oil might have spilled out of the plant.
Even after the financial meltdown, the BP oil spill and the Massey mine disaster, these guys still want more deregulation.
The grilling comes one day after the energy giant agreed to president Barack Obama's demands to set up a $ 20 billion (# 13.6 billion) fund for the victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
During the months and months of BP's ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and even after it was finally halted, researchers struggled to determine how the oil hidden below the ocean surface was moving, and whether it was disrupting Gulf ecosystems.
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