Sentences with phrase «by the oil spill on»

Even if you're an experienced rider who has braked before entering a turn and accelerated into it, you can be taken unaware by oil spilled on the road or an extremely uneven surface that causes you and your motorcycle to capsize.

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My sense, however, is that these effects have been trumped by the fallout from the spill on the oil and gas industry as a whole.

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.

Posted by Jeff Rubin on February 18th, 2014 under SmallerWorldTags: Canadian Natural Resources, Environment, Oil Sands, Oil spill • 5 Comments

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.

Did you know that the sea around the UK is home to more than 8000 different of species of plants and animals, but this wonderful marine environment is being ruined by pollution, including rubbish left on beaches, sewage and chemical and oil spills.

A British court on Thursday blocked pollution claims against Anglo - Dutch energy giant Shell by more than 40,000 Niger Delta residents demanding action over decades of oil spills in the region.

The commission was forbidden by law from considering a recent oil spill in South Dakota on the existing Keystone pipeline in its decision.

«It is another row on a ledger sheet called the «spill impact mitigation analysis,»» which assesses various strategies and tools to reduce environmental and economic damage caused by oil spills.

Tests in soils affected by oil and gas wastewater spills in West Virginia and North Dakota verify that the new methods can determine the age of spills and identify their origins, based on the variations of radium isotopes and their decay products found in contaminated soils or sediments.

According to a U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 25, oil giant ExxonMobil will pay the equivalent of 24 hours» worth of petroleum sales to the people impacted by the 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Prince William Sound in Alaska.

The case is In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig «Deepwater Horizon» in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, No. 10 - md - 02179.

The spill also had a galvanizing effect on lawmakers who passed the federal 1990 Oil Pollution Act to help stave off a repeat of the disaster by increasing oversight, stiffening penalties, mandating contingency planning, and creating new research programs.

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.

For 25 years, methodical research by scientists has investigated the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 on Alaskan communities and ecosystems.

In one of Cunningham's activities, designed to fit the standards, elementary students clean up a hypothetical oil spill much the way an environmental engineer would: by proposing solutions and conducting hands - on tests.

There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. waters: the National Response Center, an online reporting system for oil and chemical spills managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

Suggestions to read in today's digest are: a review about microbiological methods applied in studies following the deepwater horizon oil spill by S.Zhang, a paper by W. Pootakham on dynamics of coral ‐ associated microbiomes during a thermal bleaching event and a paper by X. Jiang on a novel auxotrophic interaction among soil microbes.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

WHY: Aaron Sorkin's last TV project («Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip») may not have been his best work, but he's hit a homerun with this HBO drama, which uses actual news stories (the BP oil spill, the death of Osama Bin Laden, etc.) to ground the show (and by extension, its characters) in reality.

Hear updates on their individual journeys to overcome a year of challenges and loss, having been affected by the Gulf oil spill, joblessness and the struggle to re-enter society after being incarcerated for sexual assault.

Begun on April 22, 1970, by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the purpose of the day was to create awareness that our natural resources will not last forever and to stress each of our responsibility in protecting and preserving our Earth and its resources.On this day, bags of clean soil were passed out, people spilled oil on sidewalks in Washington, DC, to protest oil spills, high school students swept public spaces, and people wore gas masks to show that our air...

Possibilities include: Oil spilled on exhaust during the Oil Change (as mentioned in the comments by DucatiKiller).

Denver — Having already funded research on the health of dolphins affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund will now help the rare saiga antelope in Kazakhstan.

Belize is home to hundreds of endangered animals, birds, and plants that thrive on the reef, all of which could be endangered by drilling practices and potential oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010 that took place in the nearby Gulf of Mexico.

Benglis, like Pollock, invented a type of structureless painting; she made hers by spilling latex onto the floor, gushing it, consciously referencing the «toxic oil slicks on the Bayou.»

I have my Artist Talk today out on the front stage of the museum which opens to the street anyone walking by could see my naked body covered in chocolate pudding / and black food coloring (The Oil Spill) or me covered in diet books.

On view at the gallery will be new works from his «Pipeline» series that are «inspired by the dichotomy of the Gulf of Mexico, beautiful and tranquil (a vacation spot), yet the heart of controversy and disaster, from hurricanes to the recent oil spill.»

There, students can find a section called «Running on Oil» and read a page that touts the industry's environmental track record — citing improvements mostly attributable to laws that the companies fought tooth and nail, by the way — but makes only vague references to spills or pollution.

Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez ran on the rocks in southern Alaska, the amount of oil spilled from ships has dropped sharply even as the amount of oil moved by sea has risen.

And by the way, on a side note, Exxon Mobile was exonerated by a court ruling in the Valdez Oil spill.

On Wednesday, 11/7, San Fransicso bay was irreversibly polluted by an oil spill.

Read on below, and make sure you check out RainTube's product made from 100 % recycled materials... «Green Wombat: San Francisco oil spill is a tech disaster by Todd Woody «If ever there was a disaster area suited to exploit Internet technology to crowdsource an army of green berets and deploy them where they're needed most, it's this Twittering, Google map - mashing epicenter of Web 2.0, right?

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 other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

According to Friends of the Earth, «The bunker fuel spills by the Hanjin container ship that hit a bridge in San Francisco Bay on Nov. 7 and the Russian oil tanker that broke in half during a storm in the Black Sea on Nov. 11 call attention to the harm caused by bunker fuel when it is spilled.

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Most of the oil, by the way, comes not from accidents or ship spills but down the drains — it's cars and lorries spilling a little here and there on the roads.

According to a study commissioned by Canada's National Energy Board and based on 20 years of Beaufort Sea data, three of the most widely - used oil spill containment methods — burning spilled oil in - situ, deploying booms and skimmers, and aerial application of dispersants — would be impossible due to bad weather or sea ice 20 - 84 percent of the brief, June - to - November open - water season.

This was first brought to light by Oil Change International (and soon echoed by Ryan Koronowski on Climate Progress and then by Carol Linnitt on DeSmog Canada), all of whom explained the bizarre technicality that exempts dilbit (or diluted bitumen, the transportable form of tar sands crude) from the taxes that fund the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: widely appreciated cartoons on the oil spill and climate change by Tom Toles: http://climateprogress.org/­2010/­06/­18/­best-toles-cartoon-ever/ More Toles at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/­tomtoleON THE LIGHTER SIDE: widely appreciated cartoons on the oil spill and climate change by Tom Toles: http://climateprogress.org/­2010/­06/­18/­best-toles-cartoon-ever/ More Toles at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/­tomtoleon the oil spill and climate change by Tom Toles: http://climateprogress.org/­2010/­06/­18/­best-toles-cartoon-ever/ More Toles at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/­tomtoles/

On the March 24 edition of Fox Business» Varney & Co., guest host Charles Payne and contributor Tracy Byrnes discussed the impact that the oil spill would have as «an impediment to growing out our fossil fuel industry» by providing ammunition for environmentalists.

Oil Spills and Vancouver's Stanley Park By: Wilderness Committee Rex Weyler Published: July 2012 Vancouver's Stanley Park is one of the largest, most ecologically diverse urban parks on the planet.

Future rulemakings may take into consideration information developed by ongoing investigations into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, or as a result of public comments on the recently issued Drilling Safety Rule.

Old highways are reclaimed by natural vegetation, land covered by hot lava soon has ferns and other plants growing on it, and even oil spills are quickly oxidized and «eaten» by micro-organisms that render it harmless.

The 2012 budget cut funding for the measure of industrial emissions, closed an oil spill monitoring facility in British Columbia and a global water quality monitoring centre in Ontario, slashed funding for atmospheric research — resulting, among other things, in the partial closure of a vital research station in the High Arctic — and killed the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which had been created by the Mulroney government.

One, on the effects of oil spills into Canadian marine waters released in 2015 by an expert panel of the Royal Society of Canada, concluded that more research is required «to better understand the environmental impact of spilled crude oil in high - risk and poorly understood areas, such as Arctic waters, the deep ocean and shores or inland rivers and wetlands.»

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 impact of the BP oil spill on birds seems to be in the spotlight today... The American Bird Conservancy released a map of bird habitat threatened by oil and Yale e360 has a good interview with