Sentences with phrase «clean up oil spills on»

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First, the method is agnostic as to what the money is spent on, so money spent cleaning up an oil spill looks remarkably similar to money spent building a new hospital or school in terms of economic impact.

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.

Di Franco and his Sicily - based crew of 70 sailors spend most of their time patrolling the waters around Italy, cracking down on illegal fishing and cleaning up after oil spills.

«We call on the Federal Government to build five functional sea ports of international standard for the region, and commence the clean up processes of the Koluama Oil Spill in Bayelsa.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner and Toxic Targeting's Walter Hang present documents on unfinished oil spill clean ups in New York.

With the potential for the Hudson River to become a major oil transportation corridor, there's concern from environmentalists as to how complicated cleaning up a spill on the river would be.

The formation of the commission comes as the administration faces a growing chorus of criticism about whether it is putting enough pressure on BP to clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner, left, and Toxic Targeting's Walter Hang present documents on unfinished oil spill clean ups in New York.

Oil spills and crime, for example, increase GDP because money must be spent on clean - up and replacement of lost goods, yet few would claim that they increase the general well - being of a state.

Pennsylvania State University materials science professor T. C. Chung has come up with a different take on an oil - spill cleaner.

Oil spills on the tundra, for example, have had relatively little long - term impact, because they are generally small and well cleaned up.

According to the unit's postmortem on the spill, the national contingency plan for cleaning up spills would not have coped if large quantities of the tanker's cargo of crude oil had come ashore.

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.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- Enbridge Energy Partners LP has begun a new round of dredging on the Kalamazoo River, Michigan, to clean up oil from a huge pipeline spill in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

In their report, the MPs called for the UK government to use its observer status at the Arctic Council, a federation of the eight Arctic nations, to push for a ban on offshore oil exploitation — at least until we have the technology and institutions in place to contain oil spills in the Arctic, and a liability scheme so companies can prove they can bear clean - up costs.

They are a great save to wipe oil build up off your skin, or just to have on hand to wipe hands clean, spills on shirts, or whatever!

More on The Gulf of Mexico and Other Oil Spills How Stuff Works: How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?

Here's the latest from local and national media on the ongoing clean - up of the ExxonMobil oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas.

A long time ago I saw an article on TV that was a claim that human hair was an affective resource for cleaning up oil spills in water.

When discussing this case last year, one of my law school professors said that even though Exxon had spent $ 3 Billion in clean up, they might have broke even or made a profit on the spill in the long term (skyrocketing gas prices after the spill, competing oil companies being blocked from the area due to the spill).

Core also documented oil - pipeline spills that had not been cleaned up in Ontario, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, and provided evidence that the National Energy Board has left the industry off the hook for multibillion - dollar abandonment liabilities on 70,000 kilometers of federally - regulated pipelines.

And a lack of coastal infrastructure, such as deepwater ports, means that spills of the heavy fuel oil that powers most vessels could wreak havoc on both ecosystems and reputations, because clean - up missions would have to set out from much farther away and would take much longer to be effective.

Alex again has potential for disruption, although probably more on clean - up operations than on Deepwater Horizon oil spill capturing and the drilling of relief wells.

Since the Deepwater Horizon incident, we've seen an increased focus on developing new ways to contain and clean up oil spills more efficiently.

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Via BBC More on BP Oil Spill BP Cleaning Up Less than 1 % of the Oil it Promised the Feds X-Prize Foundation Announces $ 10m Prize for Oil Spill Solution

It's really pretty hard to put a positive spin on what's happening down in the Gulf of Mexico, or really even see a good outcome, but in an interesting interview on the potential effects of the spill over at OnEarth fisheries expert Daniel Pauly from the University of British Columbia points out one small thing that may make cleaning up this spill easier than the iconic Exxon Valdez: WATCH VIDEO: Planet 100 - How to Clean An Oil Sspill over at OnEarth fisheries expert Daniel Pauly from the University of British Columbia points out one small thing that may make cleaning up this spill easier than the iconic Exxon Valdez: WATCH VIDEO: Planet 100 - How to Clean An Oil Sspill easier than the iconic Exxon Valdez: WATCH VIDEO: Planet 100 - How to Clean An Oil SpillSpill?

Many of World's Beaches Have Similar Composition As far as the implications of this for oil spill clean up, BBC News says report lead author Professor Michel Boufadel of Temple University and his team are working on ways to get oxygen into the lower layers to speed dispersal.

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More on Arctic Oil Russia Moves to Drill in Arctic, Oil Companies Follow Suit If An Oil Spill Happens In Icy Arctic Waters, We Have Now Way To Really Clean It Up (Video)

The City argues that the MOE should have imposed those cleanup costs on the polluters, meaning either those who caused the spill, or were negligent in cleaning it up, or the province itself for its lax regulation of the oil tank and / or of the original polluter's cleanup.

Moore Blatch's specialist takeovers, mergers and acquisitions team, based in Southampton, has successfully advised on the acquisition of Isle of White based Vikoma International, one of the world's leading providers of technology to clean up oil and chemical spills to investment specialists Agathos.

If you have friends over and you spill oil on the tile floor covering but fail to clean it up, you are not acting with reasonable care.