Sentences with phrase «fuel oil spill»

In September 2016, the United States and Canada formally notified the International Maritime Organization that a «heavy fuel oil spill in the Arctic could cause long - term damage to the environment» [6].

Jay focuses his practice in the area of insurance related matters, including insurance coverage issues, and claims dealing with the New York State Navigation Law, with regards to fuel oil spills.

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The fearlessly outspoken lawmaker and philanthropist had early last year dared his party that he would spill the beans on how the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the 2016 elections, if they touched his (Ken Agyapong's) good friend and Party Financier Mr Alfred Obeng, Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) who had come under fire for allegedly selling contaminated fuel under dubious circumstances to unlicensed companies.

«The spill in the Gulf [of Mexico], which is just heartbreaking, only underscores the necessity of seeking alternative fuel sources,» Obama said at Solyndra's facility in Fremont, Calif., as oil spewed from BP's blown out Macondo well.

Beyond improvements to fuel efficiency and oil spill remediation, there are currently few easy methods to generate a stable vortex in the lab, so the team hopes their discovery of the «blue swirl» can serve as a natural research platform for the future study of vortices and vortex breakdown in fluid mechanics.

Soil at the site was contaminated with diesel fuel at up to 20,000 parts per million, similar to concentrations on Alaskan beaches after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

If there were a spill, heavy fuel oil would degrade slowly in the Arctic.

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.

$ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosure

Two summers ago a tropical storm rocked the USS Mississinewa — an oil tanker torpedoed near Micronesia's Ulithi Atoll — spilling 24,000 gallons of fuel and halting local subsistence fishing.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

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When a barge dangerously laden with logging equipment, including a tanker truck of diesel fuel, spilled its load in the heart of the world's best known orca habitat — the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight — last August 20th, whale lovers were outraged, environmentalists dismayed, the public alerted, and even the oil industry took note.

Update: Thursday, November 8, 2007 2:40 p.m. PST At 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 7, an outbound container ship, the Cosco Busan, struck a pier of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, spilling approximately 58,000 gallons of fuel oil into San Francisco Bay.

Our fuel is safely contained with a fuel spill containment area and all fuel products are stored within this compound including used oil and fuel filters.

In the future, when fossil fuels are no longer the leading source of energy around the world and oil platforms aren't pumping oil from beneath the ocean floor, we won't have to worry about oil spills, but unfortunately, ocean pollution from spills, leaks and other sources is still a reality.

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.

According to Friends of the Earth, «The bunker fuel spills by the Hanjin container ship that hit a bridge in San Francisco Bay on Nov. 7 and the Russian oil tanker that broke in half during a storm in the Black Sea on Nov. 11 call attention to the harm caused by bunker fuel when it is spilled.

Natural gas is also one of the winners because people see the oil spill on the news and blame oil, but are likely to forget natural gas» likely culpability in the original explosion, and therefore natural gas might emerge unscathed as the clean, «safe» and domestic fuel.

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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, fossil fuels are lethal for environmental ecosystems (in addition to causing massive landslides, oil spills, underground tar leaks, and all of that good stuff) and produce extremely lethal toxic air emissions, including methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide.

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.

The spill, estimated to be roughly 4,000 barrels (or 168,000 gallons), began after a tanker vessel carrying heavy fuel oil collided with a cargo ship in Galveston Bay, an estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico.

On the March 24 edition of Fox Business» Varney & Co., guest host Charles Payne and contributor Tracy Byrnes discussed the impact that the oil spill would have as «an impediment to growing out our fossil fuel industry» by providing ammunition for environmentalists.

The network's latest advocacy for fossil fuels comes on the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the most environmentally devastating oil tanker spill in American history.

Picture credits: «Natural Gas» by Marcelo Rampazzo, plug - in fuel cell EV by Asianewsphoto via World Expo, Dalian oil spill cleanup by National Geographic, China Development Bank by From Sandton to Shanghai, power grid by China Hourly, accounting cartoon by Randy Glasbergen via immobilienblasen.

Drilling and fuel shipping have also increased the chances of oil spills, which would affect the bowhead and other whales, seals, and walruses in the Bering Straight as well as the 12 million birds that nest and forage in the area every year.

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.

These activities pose a major threat to Arctic cetaceans such as the beluga whale, especially the possibility of a heavy fuel oil (HFO) spill.

Is «ascertainable ecocide» (deforestation, oil spills, fossil fuel extraction, pollution - dumping) a problem for «the inhabitants of [a] territory», if it is not the case that «peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory have been severely diminished»?

So in order to cope with this problem, Higgins makes a distinction between «ascertainable ecocide»: deforestation, oil spills, fossil fuel extraction, pollution - dumping; and non-ascertainable ecocide: tsunami, earthquake, typhoon, Act of God.

It is also home to several pipelines carrying fossil fuels from Canada to Texas, and is the site of the largest inland oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the 1 - million barrel tar sands crude leak along the Kalamazoo River in 2010.

As a result of a fuel tanker grounding and attendant oil spill in 2001, a consortium of energy companies from the G7, calling themselves e7 (created to bring renewable energy to developing nations), funded the installation of three wind turbines on San Cristobal, an island in the Galapagos archipelago, to minimize the amount of fuel that had to be delivered to run the generators.

Offshore oil drilling would threaten Virginia's coastal communities and fishing and tourism industries with devastating spills, while enabling more of the fossil fuel pollution causing climate change and rising sea levels.

The paper goes on to cite the political risks facing fossil fuel companies (countries could impose caps or taxes on carbon), the risks of competition from cleaner technologies and the health, safety and environmental risks, citing as an example the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Aside from more fossil fuels to burn, critics of Arctic drilling say any spill would be practically impossible to clean given the harsh conditions and complete lack - of - infrastructure; oil companies would face freezing temperatures, moving ice, fierce storms, in addition to the fact that any spill would likely have to be abandoned during the long dark Arctic winter.

Oil spills are one of many environmental risks associated with fossil fuel use.

[2] In addition to the risks from spills, the burning of heavy fuel oil by ships emits significant quantities of black carbon, potent in accelerating the already rapid pace of Arctic climate change.

What it really does is streamline access to oil, gas, and coal under public lands and federally - controlled ocean waters for the fossil fuel industry — and condemns Americans to more spills, climate - polluting emissions, and health problems.

In January, a Moldovan cargo ship ran aground near the popular beach resort of Kilyos, spilling 96 tons of fuel oil and 25 tons of diesel oil into the area's bays and out to sea.

The news is welcomed by climate hawks and environmental activists, who say that continuing to search for new sources of fossil fuels will contribute to climate change while also putting ecosystems at risk in the face of oil spills.

Burning and refining fossil fuel is polluting the air we breathe the water we drink and the fish we eat, not to mention the oil spills that devastate our coastlines.

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.

Not only are they dealing with the devastating fallout of the BP oil spill, but they are struggling to keep up with ever - rising fuel costs too.

A new study by the National Academy of Sciences found that «pipelines carrying heavy Canadian oil sands fuel are at no greater risk of a spill than those running conventional crude.»

«Thanks to inspired and motivated action taken by a number of IMO member states to move towards a ban on heavy fuel oil, Arctic communities and ecosystems will be protected from the threat of oil spills, and the impact of black carbon emissions,» said Dr. Sian Prior, lead advisor to the Clean Arctic Alliance, a coalition of 18 non-governmental organizations working to end HFO use as marine fuel in Arctic waters.

But Obama and his top deputies have yet to talk about reducing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels in connection with the oil spill, something that worries environmentalists such as Brune.

Fuel Station Attendant VONS — Escondido, CA 2007 — 2011 • Provide exceptional customer service per policies • Received payments and operated automated cash register and card scanner to handle transactions • Managed cash drawer, coupons, and checks • Received gas delivery from a tanker truck • Carried out the safety inspection of pumps • Cleaned work area, building floor, oil spills from the parking area

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