Sentences with phrase «cleaning up oil spills as»

Cleaning Oil Spills As we mentioned above, some bacteria like to eat chemicals found in oil spills, which means they can be, and are, used in cleaning up oil spills as well.

He said so in an interview with Fox News, definitively explaining once and for all why everyone should trust BP to clean up the oil spill as best they can.

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As the lighter portions of the spill begin to evaporate, the progressively heavier bitumen would likely begin to sink — rendering useless the conventional clean - up equipment designed to recover floating oil.

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.

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

But now those in the Niger delta say the fragile peace is under strain as the Nigerian government takes time to carry out reforms ranging from the construction of a maritime university to cleaning up oil spills.

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.

BP lost $ 17 billion in the three months to June as it faced huge clean - up costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

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.

These plants, which are often regarded as a nuisance, could in fact provide an extremely convenient way of cleaning up messy oil spills.

They could also be used as environmental sensors, monitoring an oil spill or chemical contamination site, for instance, and then dissolving once the disaster is cleaned up, saving recovery teams the ordeal of collection.

Future designer enzymes could serve needs unmet by biological evolution, such as cleaning up oil spills or manufacturing new drugs.

«As the situation in the Gulf of Mexico has made abundantly clear, once the oil spills it is a very expensive exercise to clean it up,» says Rean Gilbert.

En masse, they form a mechanical multitude an order of magnitude larger than any robot swarm ever built — a possible precursor to future robot work squads choreographed for chores such as cleaning up oil spills.

The technology was developed at WPI by a team led by Ali Rangwala, professor of fire protection engineering, as an outgrowth of research funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at assessing the feasibility of using in - situ burns to clean up oil spills in remote locations in the Arctic, where harsh weather can make it difficult to quickly mobilize clean - up equipment and crews.

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.

Waste material generated by Malaysia's sago palm industry has potential for use as an adsorbent for cleaning up oil spills, according to a study published in the Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology.

The sponges will be used to clean up oil spills, as well as diesel and oil buildup in ports and harbors.

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

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.

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.

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What's more, we have tools to clean up oil spills, so we actually can clean them up (at least to a certain degree) when we set out to do so — as of now, solutions that can clean up carbon spills from the air are just beginning to reach commercial scale.

In response to this disaster, government and private sector actors rapidly mobilized a clean - up effort to contain the damage of the oil spill as much as possible.

Even as the perpetrators of the biggest environmental catastrophe in US history tout their efforts to clean up the oil spill swirling around the Gulf, they neglect to mention one thing: they still stand to make millions of

The operation is also keeping a native San Francisco strain of oyster mushroom in stock so it can be deployed as a mycoremediation tool to clean up oil spills and break down hydrocarbons.

As many of the spills in the region have never been cleaned up, oil has sunk deep into the water table and has devastated the local ecosystems.

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 dispersaAs 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 dispersaas 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.

As the BP oil spill moves from being a short and bloody battle to a long and drawn out war, I've personally have moved to from anger to trying to think more constructively, but here are two pieces of news which drag me right back to frustration: 1) In an Alabama wildlife refuge affected by the spill, even possessing a camera is prohibited; 2) BP apparently won't use peat moss to help clean up the oil because it won't be able to sell the oil afterwards.

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Whether it is tar sands oil, dilbit or conventional crude, oil spills are a mess to clean up and the oil industry should pay a cleanup fee for a barrel of one type of oil as it does for another.

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One example of this is the oyster mushroom, which has been found to successful in cleaning up oil spills, as an alternative to more harmful detergents.

The Gulf oil spill in 2010 leaked 206 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico; BP has already paid $ 14 billion in clean - up costs and $ 10 billion in compensation, and is expected to owe more as clean - up continues