Sentences with phrase «for cleaning up oil spills»

In an ironic twist, Think Progress has just reported that a bizarre technicality in U.S. law allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleaning up oil spills like the one in Mayflower.

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.

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 challenges for cleaning up an oil spill in the Arctic are numerous.

Not exact matches

A study of historic oil spills in the U.S. reported the average clean - up cost for heavy crude of $ 18.95 per litre.

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.

I know Dawn has some unique cleaning features since that's what they asked for to help clean up the oil spill....

«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.

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 dispersants may have significantly reduced the amount of harmful gases in the air at the sea surface — diminishing health risks for emergency responders and allowing them to keep working to stop the uncontrolled spill and clean up the spilled oil sooner.

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.

The cost of caring for wildlife after recent oil spills has amounted to roughly 1 per cent of the total clean - up costs.

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.

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.

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.

Although typical fire tornadoes can be catastrophically unruly, researchers hope to harness their power for energy production and to clean up oil spills.

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.

Researchers looking for a better way to clean up oil spills are taking a cue from the humble cactus.

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.

In 2011, X Prize awarded the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge prize to a manufacturing team from the United States that developed technology for quickly cleaning up oil spilOil Cleanup X Challenge prize to a manufacturing team from the United States that developed technology for quickly cleaning up oil spiloil spills.

Genetically modified organisms show promise for everything from making vaccines to cleaning up oil spills.

The XPrize has previously awarded millions for big ideas that solve big problems like for oil spill clean up, sustainable jet fuel, fuel - efficient vehicles and more.

This is particularly critical in the case of oil spills, where a full clean - up is virtually impossible if decontamination efforts don't start immediately,» said Jaime Lloret from the UPV's Research Institute for Integrated Management of Coastal Areas.

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.

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.

«The dispersant chemicals used to clean up oil spills have the unintended effect of transforming crude oil into a toxic mist able to travel for miles and penetrate deep into human lungs, new research has found.»

Any attempt at cleaning up an oil spill in the Arctic would face challenges ranging from shifting sea ice to constant darkness, and the United States is far from ready for an Arctic spill of any significant size.

(04/02/2012) Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior approved oil spill clean - up plans by Royal Dutch Shell Oil in the Beaufort Sea, paving the way for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic to begin as soon this yeoil spill clean - up plans by Royal Dutch Shell Oil in the Beaufort Sea, paving the way for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic to begin as soon this yeOil in the Beaufort Sea, paving the way for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic to begin as soon this yeoil drilling in the Arctic to begin as soon this year.

We ensure that never again can a company like BP take a tax deduction for money spent cleaning up its own mess in the Gulf of Mexico, and we close the loophole that lets tar sands oil pipeline operators avoid paying the oil spill cleanup tax.»

Mr. Sullivan's letter to Secretary Johnson describes how the new anchorages could provide targets for terror attacks — two are located within three miles of the Indian Point nuclear plant — and that increased traffic of barges filled with crude oil and other hazardous materials raises the potential for collisions and spills, «which in the tidal Hudson would be difficult, if not impossible, to clean up without incurring immediate and long - term damage to drinking water resources and prime wildlife habitat.»

When companies have solutions both to prevent and then clean up carbon spills, we can start seriously discussing why we don't hold them accountable for doing everything they can to avoid and remediate carbon spills in the same way we do with oil spills.

Drilling in the Arctic is already a high risk proposition with a high potential for a disastrous oil spill in icy, harsh and remote conditions, which all agree couldn't be cleaned up.

Offshore drilling for oil and gas would expose the fragile and already climate - stressed ecosystem to significant noise, pollution, traffic and the risk of a catastrophic spill, which can not be contained and cleaned up in the Arctic.

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

More about oil spills: Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brookoil spills: Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brspills: Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrSpills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrSpills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrSpills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brooklyn

If the oil industry wants to pipe these dangerous tar sands oils over our water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to clean up.

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

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.

Shell Accepts Liability For Nigerian Oil Spills For First Time - Region Will Take 30 Years To Clean Up

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.

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.

This behavior could help scientists create biomimicry solutions for «small, swarming robots that might someday be used to explore inaccessible areas or even clean up oil spills,» reports Wired.

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

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.

For example, if you are studying marine biology and you want to find a job in that field, volunteering at a wildlife conservation centre or helping out with an oil - spill clean - up would be a perfect match.