Sentences with phrase «clear oil spills»

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How else could she argue, as she did in 2016, that Alberta would not support the federal government's pan-Canadian carbon price of $ 50 per tonne (in the year 2022) unless the federal government first approved an oil sands pipeline to tidewater, while also arguing that British Columbia's proposed oil spill safety measures contravene the federal government's clear jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines?

The environmental message of the worst offshore oil spill on record (4.4 million barrels) is less clear and still unfolding.

Mushrooms are potential miracle workers, capable of cleaning up oil spills and radioactive contamination, filtering bacteria - tainted wastewater, speeding reforestation of clear - cut woodlands, boosting agricultural yields, controlling insect pests and treating ailments ranging from cancer and bird flu to diabetes and dementia.

And scientists agree that one thing is clear: the microbes of the deep Gulf of Mexico were ready to handle an oil spill.

«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.

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.

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 use of the image of the oil spill gives a clearer description of «messiness» and emphasizes the «rumpled» look of a well worn parka.

When BP engaged with investors after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, it made clear that its efforts were dedicated to costs — lowering the costs of litigation, lowering the costs of the judgments against it, and lowering the costs of its debt burden as it sought to lower interest expenses by turning unsecured debt into secured debt.

Tourism fell off in Clear Water and Fort Meyers and dozens of other places because of BP's oil spill, Tim.

Ballengée's images of marine life from the Gulf of Mexico, the specimens first cleared to make them translucent and then colorfully stained, are effervescent reflections of the aftermath of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The bizarrely prescient oil spill connotation of the pours is clear enough.

Contrast this with the clear image conveyed by images of an oil spill.

Looking back at 2010, it's clear that the Gulf Oil Spill is the story that will headline environmental history books.

«This tragic spill makes it clear that the miniscule benefits of offshore oil drilling are not worth the consequences,» says Jim Moriarty, Surfrider Foundation's CEO.

But at SkyTruth we have acquired good images often enough to illustrate the enormity of the spill and inadequacy of our initial spill response efforts; provide the first estimate of the spill size and rate that made any sense; to identify oil making landfall along the Alabama coast before it was being acknowledged by officials; to show clear entrainment of the spill in the Loop Current while officials were actively denying it; and to detect small but chronic leaks from other damaged wells, raising the related issue of inadequate plugging and abandonment.

It ignores the pipeline's significant risk for toxic spills, ignores its catastrophic impacts on our climate, and ignores the clear consensus among financial analysts and oil executives who agree Keystone XL will make the difference in tar sands development.»

«The question is why we should continue this exemption given that it's clear tar sands oil is more likely to spill because it's more corrosive... and more and more tar sands is coming into the U.S.,» said Lorne Stockman, research director at Oil Change International, an advocacy group that supports clean eneroil is more likely to spill because it's more corrosive... and more and more tar sands is coming into the U.S.,» said Lorne Stockman, research director at Oil Change International, an advocacy group that supports clean enerOil Change International, an advocacy group that supports clean energy.

The story seems clear: BP overruled Transocean in a procedure that, if Transocean had had it's way in choosing a slower and safer technique, would have not likely led to the explosion and subsequent oil spill.

The jokes were especially topical because — almost, it seemed, in coordination with the oil spill — the Interior Department announced it was clearing the way for final approval of Cape Wind, the long - beleaguered Nantucket Sound offshore wind project.