Sentences with phrase «gallons of oil spilling»
With thousands of gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico everyday, this undeniable
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Between 1973 and 1990, an average of 11.8 million gallons of oil spilled each year in American waters.
InsideClimate's The Dilbit Disaster explores the million gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, which triggered the most expensive cleanup in U.S. history — more than $ 800 million.
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From 1990 to 2011, more than 110 million gallons of oil spilled from U.S. pipelines.
«If they hit the shutoff valve immediately after a rupture, there would still be more than 650,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Great Lakes,» he said.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
In this case, the pipeline expansion was further complicated by the fact that a related Enbridge pipeline involved in oil imports from Canada spilled nearly one million gallons of oil in Marshall, Mich., in July 2010 after tape intended to prevent corrosion on the pipeline failed.
Just weeks before the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline was supposed to start commercial service, state documents revealed that it's already spilled 84 gallons of crude oil at a pump station in April, fulfilling the fears many critics of the pipeline voiced while protesting its creation.
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.
April 2016, Keystone Pipeline Freeman, South Dakota TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline spilled 16,800 gallons of tar sand oil over a football field - sized piece of land.
The Cuomo administration must recognize the scope of this threat to our state from this company, which was responsible for the largest oil field spills in North Dakota's history just last month, involving 1 million gallons of hazardous brine.
... That leak in the Keystone Pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of crude oil — about 210,000 gallons, according to TransCanada, the pipeline's owner.
Other un-remediated sites include oil storage plants in Buffalo, Rochester, and Albany — where in 2011, 28,000 gallons of kerosene were spilled and, according to the documents, never fully cleaned up.
The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil along Alaskan shores.
When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pipe blew out seven years ago, beginning the worst oil spill in U.S. history, those in charge of the recovery discovered a new wrinkle: the millions of gallons of oil bubbling from the sea floor weren't all collecting on the surface where it could be skimmed or burned.
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.
That spill took more than a year to stop, spewing an estimated 140 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.
That would make BP's Gulf spill already worse than the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which discharged roughly 11 million gallons of oil off Alaska.
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.
While the world waits to see if a «top kill» operation can seal off the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf, the staggering proposition of dealing with the more than 11 million gallons of crude spilled to date remains.
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.
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.
ExxonMobil pipeline bursts beneath the Yellowstone River in Montana, spilling 40,000 gallons of oil into the pristine area.
In the wake of 1989's massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound, when 11 million gallons of oil befouled some 1,300 miles of formerly pristine and wildlife - rich coastline, much has been done to prevent future spills of such magnitude.
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.
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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 the easiest measure — volume of oil spilled — PeMex's Ixtoc I oil well was far worse than the Deepwater Horizon well: 140 million gallons of oil poured out of the Mexican well, compared to the estimated 94.2 million gallons that could escape from the well near Louisiana by mid-August, when a relief well is expected to be complete.
The ruptured 24 - inch pipeline, owned by Plains All American Pipeline, spilled 105,000 gallons of crude oil, some of which -LSB-...]
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.
On November 16, 2017, an underground section of the Keystone Pipeline in northeastern South Dakota spilled over 200,000 gallons of oil.
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 spill ran from June 1979 to March 1980 (9 months) and released 140 million gallons of oil.
Sirota goes on to make an important point that while a spill of 5,000 gallons of oil is very small compared to the volume of oil that spilled during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the problem is that the oil and gas spilled in Colorado is contaminating fresh water, which is already depleted due to drought.
Though initial reports placed the amount of oil spilled from the Enbridge pipeline as high as one million gallons, all subsequent reports have estimated the amount of oil leaked in the 800,000 - 840,000 gallon range.
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 GoverOil 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 Goveroil into the San Francisco bay, a sweeping set of bills have found their way onto Governor
UPDATE: The Denver Post reported that at least 5,250 gallons of crude oil spilled into the South Platte River during the flood.
Exxon pipeline breaks spilling 84,000 gallons of Canadian crude oil near Arkansas lake [UPDATED] Are «oiled» birds in Arkansas signs the Exxon oil spill has spread to Lake Conway?
In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.
The millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico are more like an epidemic, one that we will be fighting for months and even years.
Exxon Mobil announced today that it believes a manufacturing defect is the cause of the pipeline rupture that spilled nearly 300,000 gallons of tar sands oil in Mayflower, Arkansas.
In 2010, a single pipeline spill poured 1,000,000 gallons of toxic bitumen crude oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.
More than two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners LP pipeline spilled 819,000 gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, U.S. EPA has ordered the company to do additional dredging to remove oil.
The Keystone pipeline just spilled 210,000 gallons of toxic tar sands oil in South Dakota — and President Trump and his oil industry allies are still pushing ahead with the bigger, riskier proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would carry 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day through America's heartland.
When added together, the many indirect costs to society — including climate change, oil industry tax breaks, military protection of the oil supply, oil industry subsidies, oil spills, and treatment of auto exhaust - related respiratory illnesses — total roughly $ 12 per gallon.