Sentences with phrase «by these oil spills»

There are, basically, two issues with this method, and both are wonderfully illustrated by the oil spill example.

The small fishing community has been hammered by the oil spill.

«We have also asked the U.S. Small Business Administration to activate all appropriate federal disaster declaration clauses that would enable the SBA to assist the small businesses in the state that will be impacted by the oil spill...

«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.

Petroleum - eating oyster mushrooms resembling those above can remediate soil contaminated by oil spills.

Just look at the many ecological disasters around the world triggered by oil spills.

In addition to acting and producing, Danson is an environmental activist, founding the American Oceans Campaign (AOC) in 1987 to alert Americans to the life - threatening hazards created by oil spills, off - shore development, toxic wastes, sewage pollution and other ocean abuses.

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.

It is threatened by predators introduced to its breeding colonies and by oil spills [citation needed].

Scripps's murrelet is mainly threatened by oil spills, as much of its population lives near the busy shipping lanes connecting Los Angeles to other ports.

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

It would also help ensure that companies like BP that are responsible for oil spills are the ones that pay for the harm caused by these oil spills --- not the taxpayers.

Ask yourself if you would want your child to be forced to play in the shadow of a petrochemical plant built next to your home, or an oil field, or along local rivers polluted by oil spills and toxic waste — because this is the hazardous reality for many people.

For one, the damages from carbon spills affect people and environments all around the world, not just the local areas contaminated by oil spills.

ExxonMobil says about 50 claims have been filed so far by people affected by the oil spill.

Contacts in Louisiana have given me numerous, unconfirmed reports of cameras and cell phones being confiscated, scientists with monitoring equipment being turned away, and local reporters blocked from access to public lands impacted by the oil spill.

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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.

Animal law includes farm animals, companion animals and even marine animals such as those that have been harmed by oil spills.

«One of the cases we're funding at the moment is a class action of seaweed fishermen in Indonesia claiming compensation for alleged damages caused by an oil spill by PTTEP Australasia Ashmore Cartier PTY Ltd,» says Martin Tonnby, Harbour's Founder and CEO.

He has led the defense of several clients in actions caused by oil spills and pipeline ruptures.

So even though the city of 120,000 people hasn't been physically touched by the oil spill, there are grave concerns about the potential loss of jobs and population.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service set up a wildlife triage center on Grand Isle to rescue and rehabilitate birds and marine animals affected by the oil spill.

I'd have to give it to my mom who lives in New Orleans and is watching her beloved gulf coast be destroyed by the oil spill.

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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.

That was followed in 2012 by Victoria newspaper publisher David Black's much more ambitious but somewhat speculative Kitimat Clean project, consisting of a $ 25 - billion oil refinery in the northern town that would create jobs and taxes in B.C. while ensuring that the exports were of finished products rather than the diluted bitumen from the oilsands whose behavior in the case of a marine spill is virtually unknown.

By contrast, Northern Gateway introduces the risk of oil spills to a relatively pristine and commercially productive marine environment.

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.

By comparison, the supertankers that will be loaded at the Westridge Marine Terminal will each carry about 575,000 barrels of oil — more than double the Exxon Valdez spill.

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

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A well operated by Anadarko Minerals Inc. spilled a» substantial» amount of oil in the central region of the Fort Peck Reservation in northeast...

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.

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.

To understand the destructiveness of a toxic, tar sands spill, Google and read, «Michigan oil spill effects could be repeated here,» by Michelle Barlond - Smith.

Spurred by recent train derailments that have lead to explosions and oil spills, law makers are thinking about reducing the speed limit trains carrying oil can travel.

One spill is too many but pipelines are much safer than rail for transporting oil By Kenneth P. Green, Elmira Aliakbari and Ashley Stedman The Fraser Institute State regulators in... Read more»

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.

British Columbia's demand for oil spill safety enhancements, by contrast, are capable of being designed so as not to usurp the federal government's authority over the approval of interprovincial pipelines.

BP has pledged to set aside $ 20 billion to pay damage claims filed by people who will be harmed (physically or financially) from the oil spill.

Everyone knows how bad the BP oil spill is by now.

The program will be funded by marketing dollars given to the board by BP to help the Louisiana Seafood industry regain lost market share following the Gulf Oil Spill in 2010.

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.

Oil Spill Clean Up Experiment inspired by Harriet's Home at Sea from Kitchen Counter Chronicles

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has threatened to turn into a geopolitical spat, with British politicians increasingly irritated by President Obama's tough rhetoric.

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.

Within days of the Ibeno spill, thousands of barrels of oil were spilled when the nearby Shell Trans Niger pipeline was attacked by rebels.

He said the pipeline would not reduce the controversial shipment of Bakken oil by rail or barge, adding that statistics from the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration showed that pipelines had a higher spill rate per mile than any other form of oil transportation.

Plans to increase the state oil spill fund may fall by the wayside during the state budget process, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the closed - door talks.