Sentences with phrase «largest oil spills in»

Boufadel provided technical analyses and remedial strategies in response to the two largest oil spills in U.S. history, the Deepwater Horizon and Exxon Valdez spills.

In Brooklyn, one of the nation's largest oil spills in an almost century - old tank site originally owned by Standard Oil, has not yet been fully dealt with.

A worker on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is claiming he told BP about a faulty piece of safety equipment weeks before the rig explosion that has led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $ 17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six - year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

It was the largest oil spill in United States waters by that time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills.

I don't think anybody here has forgotten what happened last year, where we had to deal with the largest oil spill in [our] history.

For more information on the effects of last year's spill and to further consider what is happening in the Gulf today, watch this 4 minute video on the science of last year's spill, where one year after the largest oil spill in the history of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are trying to determine the long - term ecological effects.

Think Exxon Valdez, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, where the skipper was found to have consumed alcohol and left the bridge.)

Not exact matches

However, in what will be a controversial statement, they found that, «a large oil spill would not cause permanent, widespread damage to the environment.»

Adding to their fury is the spill from the Keystone pipeline just last week, which saw more than 200,000 barrels of oil spill from the pipeline in South Dakota, shuttering a large section of the conduit for days.

While its easy to get caught up in all the negativity surrounding the company regarding lawsuits over their oil spill, the company is still generating large profits and remains committed to steadily increasing their dividend.

The possibility of an oil spill off the coast of Metro Vancouver looms large in the minds of B.C. residents, saying by a margin of five - to - one that it is the single biggest concern they have about the Trans Mountain project.

Clean Harbors is the North American leader in providing response services for environmental emergencies of any scale on land or water — from the cleanup and removal of a single mercury bottle to a large - scale multiphase containment and cleanup of a coastal oil spill.

A federal court deal this week ended the latest legal skirmish resulting from what the Environmental Protection Agency describes as the costliest inland oil spill in U.S. history — and one of the largest.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

In January 2004, Riverkeeper initiated a citizen suit against two of the world's largest oil companies for the largest urban oil spill — right in the heart of New York CitIn January 2004, Riverkeeper initiated a citizen suit against two of the world's largest oil companies for the largest urban oil spill — right in the heart of New York Citin the heart of New York City.

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.

OHMSETT, a government facility, hosts the largest outdoor saltwater wave tank in North America and is the United States» main testing facility for oil - spill remediation equipment.

Eventually, they hope the technology can be applied to manufacture materials in large scale to accommodate massive oil spills in the ocean.

The leak continued until 15 July, releasing about 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf, the largest accidental marine oil spill in history.

«I could easily imagine medusoids used in large numbers to clean up oil spills in a similar manner to the way a jellyfish filters out its food,» he adds.

In the event, although this was the world's eleventh largest spill, less than 1 per cent of the oil reached shore.

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.

Enbridge Energy Partners, the U.S. unit of Canada's largest pipeline company Enbridge Inc received an order from the EPA in March requiring more containment and recovery of oil from the spill.

Using data of crude oil transported out of North Dakota in 2014, Muller says the team found «that air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude oil by rail are much larger than spill and accident costs.»

More than 20,000 barrels of heavy Canadian crude oil gushed into the Kalamazoo River system after multiple small corrosion - fatigue cracks caused the rupture of Line 6B in July 2010, the largest onshore oil spill in U.S. history.

The spill, which also included by an unknown quantity of crude oil, is by far the largest spill of its kind in the state's history, officials said

As eagerness to explore the Arctic's oil and gas resources grows, the threat of a major Arctic oil spill looms ever larger — and the United States has a lot of work to do to prepare for that inevitability, a panel convened by the National Research Council (NRC) declares in a report released today.

More than half a decade ago, a BP - operated oil rig spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, marking the largest spill of its kind in history and an environmental disaster of epic proportions.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and an ecological disaster.

Charlie is not a singer; he manages a boxing robot in some near - future period when the dominant spectator sport blends ultimate fighting and monster trucks — large robots attempt to rattle each other's central processing units while the crowds cry for spilled oil.

During the ride, Fraioli points out significant sites, including the large, egg - shaped domes of a sewage - treatment plant, and an array of ExxonMobil oil tanks, the site fifty years ago of the largest underground oil spill in any North American city.

Because a large part of its small population nests in such a small area, a single catastrophic oil spill could have far reaching implications.

Larger swarms of these robots could help to monitor the health of coral reefs, the movement of larvae in marine protected areas, harmful red tide blooms, and even track oil spills.

And as the oil spill lurched toward the Mississippi Delta yesterday, containment efforts became a foremost concern: At stake are the livelihoods of oyster farmers, shrimp harvesters, and anyone who relies on the areas large tourism industry, just to name a few, as well as the fragile ecosystem of this area, including endangered Bluefin tuna who come to this area in springtime to spawn.

This oil spill would eventually impact over 1,100 miles of Alaska's coastline, making the Exxon Valdez the largest oil spill to date in U.S. waters.

1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.

The hidden, long - term effects of the 2010 pipeline accident that spilled more than a million gallons of heavy Canadian crude oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River became public last week when the EPA revealed that large amounts of oil are still accumulating in three areas of the river.

The infected area was some forty times larger than the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and became known as the «nightmare before Christmas.»

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.

It occurred just 80 miles west 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.

The shutdown is the latest in a string of embarrassments for BP, which has suffered from a host of safety, environmental and regulatory problems in recent months, including a large oil spill at Prudhoe Bay earlier this year [see previous post].

Two decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill devastated a vast stretch of the Alaskan coast, governments and industry in the Arctic would be unable to effectively manage a large oil spill, according to a new report by World...

BP's Deepwater Horizon Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on 20 April and spewed crude for three months in 2010 and was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, dwarfing the 1979 Gulf of Mexico Ixtoc I oil spill.

You may have missed it, but about two months ago Australia experienced one of its largest oil spills, when a ship owned by Swire Shipping spilled about 70,000 gallons of oil and 620 tonnes of fertilizer in the vicinity of Moreton Island.

While we see the world our planet is dying, thanks to one of the largest ecological disasters in the world, because most terrible oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico.

Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300 to 400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast — marking a sharp escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

This, of course, comes not two years after the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history hit the Gulf coast.

A federal study of sea otters in Prince William Sound, Alaska, where the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled around 30,000,000 gallons of oil about 25 years ago (the second largest spill after the Deepwater Horizon disaster) has concluded that the otters have returned to pre-spill numbers.

Not large as far as oil spills go, but it was the second spill in