Sentences with phrase «better spill response»

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Last year, state officials strongly criticized Global's applications for crude heating facilities as incomplete, and threatened to deny the company's permits unless it provided more information about the type of crude it intended to bring through the facility as well as its insurance coverage and spill - response plans.

A large coalition of environmental, labor, and business groups had pushed the Senate to include such a measure, known as an RES, in its so - called Spill Bill (pdf), a response to the Deepwater Horizon well blowout.

The NOAA portion of the prize is meant to spur the development of specific technologies that can help detect «sources of pollution, enable rapid response to leaks and spills, identify hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, as well as track marine life for scientific research and conservation efforts,» Richard Spinrad, chief scientist at NOAA, said in a statement.

BP's «top kill» effort has halted the flow of oil from the Mississippi Canyon 252 well, according to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, national incident commander for the oil spill response.

Well, it just takes one of those little buckets to spill over, for the entire bucket to spill over and cause inflammatory — an inflammatory response.

To build on this record of good stewardship, Economic Action Plan 2015 includes investments to enhance marine transportation safety in the Arctic as well as to strengthen environmental protection, spill prevention and response measures in Canadian waters.

The decision to implement a 6 - month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico was correctly based on the need for adequate spill response, well containment and safety measures, and we stand behind that decision.

But at SkyTruth we have acquired good images often enough to illustrate the enormity of the spill and inadequacy of our initial spill response efforts; provide the first estimate of the spill size and rate that made any sense; to identify oil making landfall along the Alabama coast before it was being acknowledged by officials; to show clear entrainment of the spill in the Loop Current while officials were actively denying it; and to detect small but chronic leaks from other damaged wells, raising the related issue of inadequate plugging and abandonment.

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The oil and natural gas industry's commitment to spill prevention and an improved response if one occurs is illustrated in a just - launched website — oilspillinfo.org — that includes information, graphics, animations and other resources for industry members as well as the general public

The other study, published in 2016 by the U.S. - based National Academies of Sciences on the «environmental fate, effects and responses» of diluted - bitumen spills from pipelines, also cited the need for further study to address «diluted bitumen's behaviour in the environment under different conditions, its detection when submerged or sunken, and the best response strategies for mitigating the impacts of submerged and sunken oil.»

The panel would aim to ensure provincial and Indigenous partners across Canada are equipped with the best available science and evidence concerning spill prevention and response measures,» wrote Caroline Thériault.

Shell still must receive permits for individual wells, a hurdle that hinges on the company's oil spill response plan and the certification of its containment system, which is designed to capture flowing liquid hydrocarbons in the event of a loss of well control.

Thankfully, such a bill — one that requires deep water drilling be better regulated, demands oil companies employ more preventative measures and have thorough response plans, and eliminates the «liability cap» on how much those companies must pay in damages when they cause a spill — is advancing in the Senate.

Peter has more than 36 years of engineering and operational experience and is deeply involved in the Alaska oil spill response programme, as well as co-ordinating related research and development programmes.

The industry's spill response plan assumes that an emergency relief well can be drilled faster than an exploratory well.

Opposition to the project has centred on concerns about climate change, as well as about spills on land (already happened) and water, toxic fumes from the marine terminal and tank farm, fire and leaks from the latter (with no response plan in place), and earthquakes affecting the tunneled pipeline section.

Member of the Oxy Permian Well Servicing Team working to achieve compliance with corporate safety policies, reduction of accidents and prompt response to environmental spills or unexpected releases.