Sentences with phrase «first oil spill response»

This is a major improvement from just 4 per cent during the organisation's first oil spill response in 1971.

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Michael Ziccardi, an Oiled Wildlife Care Network veterinarian advising the spill response in Louisiana, blogs that the first oiled turtle since the spill, a 2 - pound Kemp's ridley, has been rescued and cleOiled Wildlife Care Network veterinarian advising the spill response in Louisiana, blogs that the first oiled turtle since the spill, a 2 - pound Kemp's ridley, has been rescued and cleoiled turtle since the spill, a 2 - pound Kemp's ridley, has been rescued and cleaned.

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.

The first two focused on search - and - rescue and on oil - spill response.

When the oil spill first occurred, much was made of the rapid response that included the blockage of drainage culverts that connected the cove to the main body of Lake Conway.

From United Airlines to Equifax to Target to Sony, even going back to the BP oil spill, in each case, the first days or weeks of the crisis were characterized by fumbled responses, statements that corrected prior statements, and falling back on legalisms and obfuscation.