«We have also asked the U.S. Small Business Administration to activate all appropriate federal disaster declaration clauses that would enable the SBA to assist the small businesses in the state that will be
impacted by the oil spill...
Contacts in Louisiana have given me numerous, unconfirmed reports of cameras and cell phones being confiscated, scientists with monitoring equipment being turned away, and local reporters blocked from access to public lands
impacted by the oil spill.
Not exact matches
«It is another row on a ledger sheet called the «
spill impact mitigation analysis,»» which assesses various strategies and tools to reduce environmental and economic damage caused
by oil spills.
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.
A comprehensive scientific report released
by The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has concluded that there are still critical research gaps hampering efforts to both assess the environmental
impacts of crude
oil spills and to effectively remediate them.
Yet because of the difficulty in collecting samples from so far below the ocean surface, and because of the large area that was
impacted by the
spill, a number of gaps in understanding the fate of the
oil over time remained.
These locations coincide with the states most
impacted by the ongoing UME since the DWH
oil spill [1].
Impacts to Seabirds Seabirds in the park and throughout southern California are
impacted by many factors including contaminants,
oil spills, invasive species, and changes in the ocean environment.
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.
Other
impacts of tight
oil include potentially significant water, air, and noise pollution around drilling sites, and the risk of
oil spills by the trucks, trains, and pipes that transport extracted shale
oil to refineries.
Indigenous peoples of the Arctic are among the first that are being forced to relocate entire villages and whose food security is threatened
by not only the negative
impacts of climate change but
by the pollution caused
by oil, natural gas
spills, and mining operations in our critical ecosystems.
One, on the effects of
oil spills into Canadian marine waters released in 2015
by an expert panel of the Royal Society of Canada, concluded that more research is required «to better understand the environmental
impact of
spilled crude
oil in high - risk and poorly understood areas, such as Arctic waters, the deep ocean and shores or inland rivers and wetlands.»
The other study, published in 2016
by the U.S. - based National Academies of Sciences on the «environmental fate, effects and responses» of diluted - bitumen
spills from pipelines, also cited the need for further study to address «diluted bitumen's behaviour in the environment under different conditions, its detection when submerged or sunken, and the best response strategies for mitigating the
impacts of submerged and sunken
oil.»
The
impact of the BP
oil spill on birds seems to be in the spotlight today... The American Bird Conservancy released a map of bird habitat threatened
by oil and Yale e360 has a good interview with
«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.
Stephen has also represented hundreds of individuals and businesses along the Gulf Coast
impacted by the BP
oil spill which resulted from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
The issues to be considered
by the JRP include economic considerations, environmental
impacts from project operations,
impacts from an
oil spill resulting from accidents or malfunctions, and
impacts to Aboriginal title and rights.
Here's a list of information sources, claims facilities, and resources for individuals and businesses
impacted by the Gulf
oil spill.