Sentences with phrase «caused by an 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.

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

An army of ecologists is gearing up for an arduous campaign to document the damage caused by the Gulf oil spill and chart the eventual recovery

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.

After ruling out previous causes of such mass deaths — cold weather, disease like morbillivirus and even poisoning by algal bloom — fisheries scientists are left with only one conclusion: «Put all that evidence together and it supports the hypothesis that the oil spill contributed to the increase in deaths,» says veterinarian Stephanie Venn - Watson of the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego.

However, it's not clear whether the respiratory problems reported by the workers in the study are likely to crop up in the 50,000 people who have helped clean up the spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

The accident also caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history, with over 200 million gallons of crude leaking into the Gulf of Mexico by the time the well was finally capped 86 days later.

Threats to the auklet include introduced carnivores (particularly in Alaska), oil spills, and changes in sea surface temperature (caused by El Niño events).

Now, it has caused a spreading stain over hundreds of square miles of the Timor Sea between Australia and Indonesia, where oil is spilling unabated from a well drilled by PTTEP, based in Thailand.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in

Mass flooding, power outages, oil spills and residential damages were caused by strong winds and storm surge.

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.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa.

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.

First, a deepwater drilling mishap off the coast of Brazil last month caused thousands of barrels of oil to spill into the Atlantic, which only after some dodging did Chevron take responsibility for, followed by Brazil's petroleum agency deciding to suspend the company's drilling rights altogether.

Oil spill is one of the most dangerous disasters caused by products of fossils; and a number of court cases exist today.

Climate alarmists now say the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill — that multiple investigations said was caused by an inebriated captain and a crew that failed to follow proper protocol steering the vessel through Alaska's Prince William Sound — is somehow linked to our SUV's and smokestacks.

But officials from Pertamina, the Indonesian state oil company, have come forward to say the spill was caused by the failure of a pipeline beneath the bay.

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic are among the first that are being forced to relocate entire villages and whose food security is threatened by not only the negative impacts of climate change but by the pollution caused by oil, natural gas spills, and mining operations in our critical ecosystems.

You only have to think about the damage caused by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year to see a true environmental disaster.

The exact cause of the Kalamazoo River oil spill has yet to be determined; investigations are being conducted by both the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Accidents such as oil spills occur; there are also health risks caused by air pollution, for example.

«It's like losing a loved one,» says a devastated fisherman of the damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

It shows all the beach closings caused by the Gulf oil spill.

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The widespread environmental devastation caused by Hurricane Ike has been pretty well documented — the oil spills (about a half a million gallons worth), a missing drill rig, and destroyed pipelines and infrastructure were all bad

On Thursday, I wrote about the 30,000 gallons of Canadian oil that spilled in Minnesota following a train derailment and noted the differences in oil spills caused by train accidents versus oil pipelines.

Eighteen days before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Obama observed, «It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills.»

The dwarf seahorse, which resides in seagrass located throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Caribbean, is threatened with extinction from pollution caused by the Gulf oil spill disaster.

You can help our country avoid another Exxon Valdez - style disaster and the oil spills caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by telling the Interior Department to say no to off - shore drilling.

There are also many spills caused every year by off - shore drilling, many of them during the annual hurricane season, which is yet another major reason why we should end our dependence on oil switch to clean energy sources.

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.

If you believe you have a claim for economic losses caused by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, please don't hesitate to contact us.

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