Sentences with phrase «from massive oil spills»

In the big picture, as we plan towards a sustainable economy, protecting the Great Bear Rainforest from massive oil spills would be in the fundamental national interest.

The oil major currently trades at a fraction of its net asset value, thanks mostly to the black eye it took from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

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(CNN)- The White House has ordered BP to fully fund Louisiana's plan to dredge up walls of sand to protect coastal marshes from the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Wednesday.

Massive subsurface oil plumes have been reported from the Deepwater Horizon spill by the research vessel Pelican, including one up to 90 metres thick that extends for 16 kilometres by 4.8 kilometres.

There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.

Aside from its unprecedented size, the spill was the first to release a massive amount of oil 1.5 kilometers down on the sea floor and the first involving widespread use of oil dispersants below water.

BP and federal officials are employing a variety of clean - up techniques to limit the environmental impact of the massive oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists from Drexel University and Deakin University, in Australia, have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron nitride nanosheet, that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents — a trait that could make it an important technology for quickly mitigating these costly accidents.

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Two researchers describe their research on the fate of massive methane releases from the Gulf oil spill during the summer and fall of 2010.

It's been a rough year or so for the fossil fuels industry, what with exploding fracking wells, massive coal ash dumps, and oil spills from pipelines.

The 2016 settlement stemmed from a massive 2010 oil spill into Michigan's Kalamazoo River.

So what can we expect from citizens in response to this massive oil spill?

Brad also has substantial experience defending marine classification societies in major malpractice cases, including the $ 1 billion suit brought by the Kingdom of Spain against the American Bureau of Shipping concerning the massive oil spill from the M / T PRESTIGE off the coast of Spain, and another brought by cargo interests against Bureau Veritas concerning the catastrophic failure and sinking of the M / V STAR OF ALEXANDRIA.