«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.
More on the BP Gulf
Spill Predictions Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Gushing
Oil Into Atlantic
by Summer's End (Video) BP Gulf
Spill May
Cause Loss of 1 Million Jobs: TreeHugger
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.
More recent cases include the firm's representation of thousands of clean - up workers and Gulf Coast residents who were physically or financially harmed
by BP
Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histo
Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon
oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histo
oil rig,
causing the worst
oil spill in U.S. histo
oil spill in U.S. history.