Sentences with phrase «massive oil disaster»

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The massive gush of oil that started on April 20 and ran for 86 days was a disaster, obviously, but it was also a grimly informative experiment.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

BP and federal officials are employing a variety of clean - up techniques to limit the environmental impact of the massive oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Based on true events, Deepwater Horizon details the circumstances surrounding the 2010 disaster that befell the title oil rig - with the movie following the various men and women who were working aboard the massive installation when it exploded.

«A major hurricane here could bring economic and ecological disaster,» they wrote, including flood damage, destruction of entire low - lying neighborhoods, devastation to Galveston, and a massive disruption of our country's oil and shipping industries:

When an oil production platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana coast last week, a collective gasp would have been appropriate — from the residents of coastal Louisiana, who are no strangers to offshore oil rig disasters, from the fossil fuel industry, which is priming itself for a golden age under the incoming Trump Administration, and from the American public, whose oil reliance remains unchecked despite increasing awareness of both the massive downside of fossil fuel use and the increasing availability of clean, renewable energy sources.

It was just over one month ago that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig was rocked by a massive explosion that lead to the US's biggest environmental disaster in decades.

As they cope with the massive BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the least we could do is keep one of their most important nesting areas safe.

These incidents, argues Gustavo Ampugnani, lead energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace Mexico, foreshadow worsening oil - and gas - related disasters as the country's massive energy reforms open Mexico's vast fossil fuel reserves up to international companies that are even less regulated and scrutinized than State - owned Pemex.