Sentences with phrase «lakes after a spill»

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

Not exact matches

After 25 million cubic metres of tailings and debris spilled into the formerly pristine, wild salmon supporting waters of Quesnel Lake there has been little in the way of consequences or accountability.

For instance, there was a massive die - off of alligators after a 1980 pesticide spill in Florida's Lake Apopka.

Leaving at 2:30 pm, after the thrills and spills of Queenstown we travel through more mountains and on towards more stunning glacial lakes.

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.

«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.