Sentences with phrase «catastrophic oil spill»

For example, Earthjustice represents four U.S. tribes in an effort to block a massive tar sands pipeline in Canada that would put treaty fishing areas at risk of catastrophic oil spills.

Photo: Flickr, CCFrom Here to ThereThe catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was only the latest in a long list of reasons why we should transition away from oil as rapidly as we can.

Because a large part of its small population nests in such a small area, a single catastrophic oil spill could have far reaching implications.

Over 70 per cent of Burnaby residents are opposed to the expansion project, which will transport more diluted bitumen between Strathcona County (near Edmonton) and Burnaby, subsequently bringing 34 additional tankers monthly through Vancouver's Burrard Inlet and increasing the risk of catastrophic oil spills.

Environmental groups and elected officials have expressed concern in recent years about the potential for a catastrophic oil spill involving barges that transport oil products up and down the Hudson River from Albany's port.

A lot of people think it's been a bad long - term investment because of the catastrophic oil spill, the temporary dividend suspension, and a current dividend that is below where the company had been trading before the oil spill.

This drastic proposal puts our nation's coastal communities, beaches, surf breaks, and marine ecosystems at risk of a catastrophic oil spill.

He'll be profiling the choice in front of us: green energy solutions like wind, solar and geothermal, or polluting energy problems like coal burning, nuclear plants, mountaintop removal mining and, of course, catastrophic oil spills.

Remember «When BP spills coffee,» the video that satirized BP's many failed attempts at stopping their catastrophic oil spill in the gulf?

If we let them do this, a catastrophic oil spill is just a matter of time.»

Living Oceans Society and Raincoast Conservation Foundation provided evidence on the Southern Residents and their critical habitat addressed project - related contamination (including from a catastrophic oil spill), impacts on prey availability, and impacts from vessel noise.