Sentences with phrase «gallons of oil into»

The Gulf oil spill in 2010 leaked 206 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico; BP has already paid $ 14 billion in clean - up costs and $ 10 billion in compensation, and is expected to owe more as clean - up continues
It's hard to believe so much time has passed since the tanker dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, but it's not surprising that the spill's effects still linger.
On Friday, the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline, which brings Canadian crude oil from Illinois to Texas, ruptured, leaking at least 80,000 gallons of oil into the Central Arkansas town of Mayflower.
Twenty - six days after the BP oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent collapse, which has resulted in the leakage of millions of gallons of oil into the ocean and an untold amount of environmental damage, the latest
In 1969, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California released a few million gallons of oil into marine ecosystems — eight months later, it was among the primary catalysts for the biggest pro-environmental movement in the nation's history, starting with the first Earth Day.
Earlier this week, the EPA fined ExxonMobil Pipeline Company $ 1.7 million for a 2012 pipeline spill that sent 117,000 gallons of oil into an unnamed tributary connected to Bayou Cholpe near Baton Rouge, La..
Four days after Exxon's Pegasus pipeline ruptured and seven days after Keystone XL pipeline proponents claimed «pipelines are both safe and efficient,» a Shell pipeline running through a bayou outside of Houston spilled 30,000 gallons of oil into the Texas marsh.
This safety request comes after an Enbridge pipeline spilled «more than 50,000 gallons of oil into a Wisconsin pasture» last Friday.
In his worst - case scenario, that could dump 8 million gallons of oil into waterways, farmlands, and communities along the pipeline route.
The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the ecologically rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to gush 210,000 gallons of oil into the sea every day.
The ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline, which carries Canadian crude oil from Illinois to Texas, ruptured Friday, leaking at least 80,000 gallons of oil into Central Arkansas.
Sweeping Oil Spill Reforms Pass California Legislature Almost a year after a huge container ship collided with the Bay Bridge, spilling 58,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco bay, a sweeping set of bills have found their way onto Governor
Just months after the BP spill last year, an Enbridge pipeline spilled nearly a million gallons of oil into a creek flowing into the Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek, Michigan.
This environmental disaster movie documents the tragedy when the Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
The Obama administration has issued new rules governing offshore drilling, six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 rig workers and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
ExxonMobil pipeline bursts beneath the Yellowstone River in Montana, spilling 40,000 gallons of oil into the pristine area.
On July 1 an ExxonMobil pipeline burst beneath the Yellowstone River in Montana, spilling more than 40,000 gallons of oil into the waterway before responders could seal the leak.
The only larger spill occurred during the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraq dumped — deliberately — up to 462 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, with much of it entering the deep ocean.
However, tens of thousands of leaky auto engines whizzing over already polluted urban environments can't compare with the damage done to a pristine environment by a single oil tanker such as the Exxon Valdez, which spilled 10 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.
That spill took more than a year to stop, spewing an estimated 140 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.
The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.
The Deepwater Horizon spill released 3 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, which eventually covered over 1,300 miles of coastline in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, taking a severe environmental and economic toll on the region.
Canadian CEOs think both BP and the White House failed in their response to the devastating oil spill that continues to pour 800,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day.

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Experts suggest that 1.7 million gallons of oil were gushing into the ocean each day...
How much of an oil slick could you possibly have, since the whole recipe (over a gallon of soup) has 1/2 cup oil total, which you would mix thoroughly into the finished soup before serving.
ingredients TURKEY POT PIE 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup pearl onions 2 carrots (peeled, 1 / 2 - inch dice) 2 garlic cloves (peeled, minced) 1 russet potato (peeled, 1/2 - inch dice) 1 head fennel (cored, fronds removed, diced) 6 tablespoon butter 6 tablespoons flour 2 cups turkey stock (recipe below) 1 tablespoon tarragon leaves (chopped) 2 cups store - bought turkey breast and legs (skin removed, shredded) 1 sheet store - bough puff pastry (thawed) 1 egg (beaten) Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper (to taste) FOR THE TURKEY STOCK: 1 onion (quartered) 1 carrot (peeled, cut into 1 - inch pieces) 1 head of garlic (halved crosswise) 4 sprigs thyme 1 fresh bay leaf 1 tespoon black peppercorns 1 - 2 pounds turkey carcass, bones and wings 1 ham hock 2 gallons water
To do this I simply put one or two scoops of white rice into a gallon - sized resealable baggie, added a cap - full of white vinegar, several drops of blue food coloring and a few drops of lavender essential oil.
«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»
With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.
Over the last century, between 17 and 30 million gallons of oil were spilled and leaked from ExxonMobil's historic refinery and storage facilities into the soil and groundwater in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says part of the Indian Point nuclear power plant remains offline after a transformer fire that has created another problem: potentially thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the Hudson River.
Neil Sheehan of the NRC told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle that roughly 20 - 30 gallons of oil leaked into the lake.
For eighty - seven days in 2010, 210 million gallons of oil from wells below the Deepwater Horizon poured into the Gulf of Mexico.
«We realized that we were discovering (or had blundered into) a huge oil and gas field buried in our cities (buildings), factories, and roads (cars), which could be «extracted» at pennies per gallon of gasoline equivalent,» he wrote.
According to a U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 25, oil giant ExxonMobil will pay the equivalent of 24 hours» worth of petroleum sales to the people impacted by the 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Prince William Sound in Alaska.
On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico sank the oil rig and created a leak that has spewed millions of gallons into the water.
Concerns over hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that injects millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale, have largely focused on potential impacts on water quality.
To break up the oil that leaked into the Gulf of Mexico, BP had applied by mid-July nearly two million gallons of dispersants, both at the sea's surface and below.
This devastating explosion of an oil rig spewed 210 million gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico.
Another subsidiary, PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, was involved in Australia's worst offshore drilling accident in 2009, when thousands of gallons of crude oil spewed into the sea after a damaged oil well blew up.
A short distance away from the murky pond, an oil services company had begun pumping millions of gallons of drilling waste into an injection well.
Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.
I buy it by the five gallon bucket and I'm certainly convinced of its quality, but it was great to read about how their company was formed and all the effort they put into ensuring the most high quality coconut oil available.
The above recipe will just fit into one of our 1/2 gallon PET jugs after you have used the oil.
Experts estimate that upwards of 20 trillion gallons of toxins and pollutants find their way into our waterways each year, and these toxins naturally find their way into the fish and fish oil we consume for heath.
The accident also caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history, with over 200 million gallons of crude leaking into the Gulf of Mexico by the time the well was finally capped 86 days later.
Remembered as the worst spill in U.S. history, the incident involved a BP - operated rig exploding and sinking near the Mississippi River Delta before it unloaded millions of gallons of crude oil into the water for over a month.
by Walter Chaw Between preaching its preach about not being pigeonholed and the importance of living life in the moment, Raja Gosnell's The Smurfs misses no opportunity to talk about the superficiality of Smurfette (voice of Katy Perry) discovering her secret shopping bug; Gargamel (Hank Azaria) turning an «old lady» into a balloon - chested hottie; and human hero Patrick (Neil Patrick Harris) helping his harridan cosmetics boss Odile (Sofia Vergara) sell gallons of snake oil to the Vanity Smurfs (voice of John Oliver) of the world.
In November 2007, the container ship Cosco Busan released 54,000 gallons of bunker fuel oil into San Francisco Bay.
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