Sentences with phrase «big oil spill»

If there had been a big oil spill, it might have been hard to see on satellite images, but not impossible.

Does it all look good on paper in Washington, but the next time there a big oil spill we'll once again only see about 1 % of claimed capacity being effectively used?

For example, Enbridge is excluded from the Jantzi Social Index because of the big oil spill that happened in Michigan in 2010.

The biggest oil spill in U.S. history sparked improvements in tanker construction and navigation technology, along with better crew training, but the danger remains

Last December, lawyers for the company responsible for the biggest oil spill in U.S. history subpoenaed information from WHOI on flow - rate measurements its scientists had made of the leaking well.

Dear EarthTalk: I haven't heard much of late about big oil spills like the infamous Exxon Valdez.

One of several high - powered blockbusters looking to use the fest as a launching pad for a successful theatrical run like last year's «The Martian,» Peter Berg's telling of the biggest oil spill in US history promises a lot of bang for your fest - going time.

Early on, Inside Climate News began using the shorthand «dilbit» for this substance and the name is catching on, including in the title of the new e-book consolidating the reporting — «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of.»

The fleeing Iraqi troops didn't just burn oil; they also opened valves sending some 8 million barrels of crude into the Persian Gulf, making that incident the biggest oil spill in history (so far).

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced today that InsideClimate News reporters Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer were awarded an honorable mention for «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of» in the 2012 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.

InsideClimate News reporter David Hasemyer is co-author of the «Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of,» which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and co-authored the 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist series «Exxon: The Road Not Taken.»

The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of by Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and David Hasemyer (2012)

The trio took top honors in the category for their work on «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of,» a project that began with a seven - month investigation into the million - gallon spill of Canadian tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River in 2010.

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To some regulators, physical commodities represent a big risk: an operational problem, like an oil spill on an offshore rig, could lead to huge reputational damage and crater the bank's stock, potentially destabilizing it and the broader financial system.

Examples of such supposed brushes with oblivion are almost too numerous, from little goof - ups like Tropicana's package redesign, Gap's short - lived new logo and Lululemon's transparent stretchy pants to big stuff like BP's oil spill, Chipotle's food poisoning and Samsung's self - immolating phones.

The possibility of an oil spill off the coast of Metro Vancouver looms large in the minds of B.C. residents, saying by a margin of five - to - one that it is the single biggest concern they have about the Trans Mountain project.

And BP has been busy with litigation costs from the 2010 oil spill and maintaining its dividend, and will probably get around to energy - source diversification during year two or three of the next big oil spike.

«Government and industry responders were faced with an oil spill of unprecedented size and sea depth, pitting them in a high - stakes battle against big unknowns,» Reddy and Arey wrote in an article in Oceanus magazine.

In their oil - spill - response plans, Shell had to prepare for a worst - case scenario nearly three times bigger than in their previous plans for drilling in the Beaufort Sea, map out the possible discharge over 30 days instead of 3 days, and identify the specific equipment that would be used to mop up such a spill.

By the time the Deepwater Horizon well was finally plugged on 15 July, it had spewed some 750 million liters of crude oil into the Gulf and earned the title of the biggest accidental marine oil spill ever.

«In terms of impacts to shore - spawning fish, the oil spill likely had a much bigger footprint than anyone realized.»

Among the biggest questions about the Deepwater Horizon spill is how much oil remains underwater and where it is going.

THE flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico may now have been stemmed, but there is an altogether bigger problem lurking on the seabed, a legacy of the greatest ever loss of shipping.

Nicolas Cage is set to take on Big Oil this summer in first time director Austin Stark's upcoming political drama The Runner, and you can watch the first trailer right here after the official synopsis... In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, an idealistic but imperfect New Orleans politician (Nicolas Cage) finds his -LSB-.Oil this summer in first time director Austin Stark's upcoming political drama The Runner, and you can watch the first trailer right here after the official synopsis... In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, an idealistic but imperfect New Orleans politician (Nicolas Cage) finds his -LSB-.oil spill, an idealistic but imperfect New Orleans politician (Nicolas Cage) finds his -LSB-...]

This film recounts the events of April 2010, when a drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana exploded, creating the biggest oil - spill in US history.

And BP has been busy with litigation costs from the 2010 oil spill and maintaining its dividend, and will probably get around to energy - source diversification during year two or three of the next big oil spike.

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)

«Not only do large - scale events and major oil spills affect the health of marine wildlife, our everyday actions also impact the bigger picture.

This infographic, published by Travel Insurance, illustrates exactly how much oil has spilled in the 10 biggest disasters across the globe, including how it occurred and under what circumstances.

Keeping it company is a big, black, plastic iceberg that looks like something that might wash up after a major oil spill.

From Louisiana's tarred beaches to the silty scenes on the seabed a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, there have been repeated instances in which BP has tried to limit or delay the flow of information to the public on what is clearly now the biggest oil «spill» in United States history.

The XPrize has previously awarded millions for big ideas that solve big problems like for oil spill clean up, sustainable jet fuel, fuel - efficient vehicles and more.

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.

The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain — especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that tar sands oil routinely was carried by the

The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain — especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that tar sands oil routinely was carried by the Silvertip pipeline.

The Keystone pipeline just spilled 210,000 gallons of toxic tar sands oil in South Dakota — and President Trump and his oil industry allies are still pushing ahead with the bigger, riskier proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would carry 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day through America's heartland.

In the big picture, as we plan towards a sustainable economy, protecting the Great Bear Rainforest from massive oil spills would be in the fundamental national interest.

Oil tanker spills would likely become a bigger risk with any pipelines that go to west coast tidewater.

More properaganda by big oil and big coal paid by there billion of dollars in profits, you know the call drill baby drill or is it spill baby spill.

Rather than taking action to hold the company accountable, they were allowed to move forward with an even bigger and more flawed pipeline plan (Keystone XL) that would put both Canada and the U.S. at risk of a massive oil leak or spill.

Meanwhile, «CarnivOil» events in Wisconsin drew more yawns than people, as desperate Big Environment groups struggled to regain their momentum, by ranting about global warming, the Gulf oil spill, and «evil» oil companies.

And there have already been several big dilbit spills, such as the one from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota that released 200,000 gallons of oil in November of this year, or the catastrophic 2010 spill in Michigan, which released up to 1 million gallons into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.

With spill after spill, Big Oil has a dismal safety record when it comes to tar sands pipelines.

JAKARTA — Indonesia is suing an arm of Thailand's biggest energy group, PTT, for the equivalent of more than $ 2 billion over a 2009 oil spill the archipelago country says...

Canada is actually cleaning up the biggest natural oil spill in history, and making a profit from it.

Since then, according to the Los Angeles Times, Plains All American Pipeline LP — the company responsible for the disaster — disclosed in its quarterly earnings in early August 2015 that the spill «may have been bigger and costlier than originally expected» and that «as many as 143,000 gallons of crude [oil] may have been spilled when the line ruptured.»

«In their thinking, a big spill would be something like 5,000 barrels, and the oil wouldn't even reach the shoreline.»

They put together great galleries for most big events, including the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (you can

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