Sentences with phrase «massive oil spills»

During the Gulf Oil Spill we reminded readers that while massive oil spills make all the headlines in the United States, in Nigeria large spills are tragically commonplace (photo above)-- so much so that it is one of the major factors behind armed conflict in the Niger River delta.

The move to restore Ogoniland, located in southern Nigeria and home to more than 800,000 people, comes a year and a half after Shell agreed to an $ 84 million settlement with residents for two massive oil spills in 2008 and 2009.

In the big picture, as we plan towards a sustainable economy, protecting the Great Bear Rainforest from massive oil spills would be in the fundamental national interest.

Many of these conflicts focus on the massive oil spills in Nigeria.

Over 50 global problems (including climate change, rogue satellites, chemical warfare, massive oil spills, tsunamis, and ethnic and religious conflict) can be unraveled and solved.

In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists from Drexel University and Deakin University, in Australia, have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron nitride nanosheet, that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents — a trait that could make it an important technology for quickly mitigating these costly accidents.

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.

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

The oil major currently trades at a fraction of its net asset value, thanks mostly to the black eye it took from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

Latest cases in point: BP, now fighting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, after one of its leased rigs exploded and sank.

The fire that caused an oil rig to explode on Tuesday has resulted in a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, with a oil slick about 10 miles in diameter covering the ocean surface.

The formation of the commission comes as the administration faces a growing chorus of criticism about whether it is putting enough pressure on BP to clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

If another massive oil spill occurs, responders will have a suite of new acoustic techniques with which to monitor the spill.

During last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, conventional oil - collection techniques were found to be woefully inadequate.

BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn't just foul the ocean, it also tainted the air.

More than five years after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef off the coast of Alaska, the people who claim they were harmed by the massive oil spill are finally having their day — or rather, their months — in court.

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.

It marked the start of a massive oil spill that would take more than three months to contain.

A couple of years pass and a plant is erected where the tanker was sunk to clean up the massive oil spill that was left.

The deep - sea exploitation of oil and gas has been going on for a few decades now, and we've seen what can happen when things go wrong a few years ago in the Gulf of Mexico with the massive oil spill that took place after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig...

You see, in the effort to clean up the massive oil spill that's leeching across

A massive oil spill occurred in Texas on Sunday when an oil tanker collided with two -LRB-!)

You see, in the effort to clean up the massive oil spill that's leeching across the Gulf of Mexico, BP has employed hundreds, if not thousands, of fishermen.

So what can we expect from citizens in response to this massive oil spill?

In spring 2010, the western Atlantic bluefin tuna took a hit at the height of its spawning season: Scientists estimate that BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico killed between 10 and 20 percent of juvenile western Atlantic bluefin tuna.

Brad also has substantial experience defending marine classification societies in major malpractice cases, including the $ 1 billion suit brought by the Kingdom of Spain against the American Bureau of Shipping concerning the massive oil spill from the M / T PRESTIGE off the coast of Spain, and another brought by cargo interests against Bureau Veritas concerning the catastrophic failure and sinking of the M / V STAR OF ALEXANDRIA.

«It's non-negotiable because no amount of money can compensate, if they're a fishing people, for a massive oil spill.»

She moved there just as the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico occurred.

Not exact matches

(CNN)-- Republican Marco Rubio called the massive oil slick headed toward the Gulf Coast «a crisis» but the Senate hopeful refused to criticize the Obama administration's response to the oil spill.

(CNN)- The White House has ordered BP to fully fund Louisiana's plan to dredge up walls of sand to protect coastal marshes from the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Wednesday.

Massive subsurface oil plumes have been reported from the Deepwater Horizon spill by the research vessel Pelican, including one up to 90 metres thick that extends for 16 kilometres by 4.8 kilometres.

The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill helped spark a massive, ongoing die - off of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, a new study suggests.

There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.

Aside from its unprecedented size, the spill was the first to release a massive amount of oil 1.5 kilometers down on the sea floor and the first involving widespread use of oil dispersants below water.

As part of a massive lawsuit sparked by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for BP asked to see thousands of internal e-mails and documents that researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had created as they worked with the U.S. government and BP to determine the size of the historic spill.

Thousands of internal e-mails and documents created by researchers attempting to determine the size of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill have been handed over to BP as part of a massive lawsuit.

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.

During the massive, 3 - month oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico this year, scientists were quick to offer help.

We inevitably generate messes like the gulf oil spill, the result of massive, ultimately ungovernable technical expertise.

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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, fossil fuels are lethal for environmental ecosystems (in addition to causing massive landslides, oil spills, underground tar leaks, and all of that good stuff) and produce extremely lethal toxic air emissions, including methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide.

Two researchers describe their research on the fate of massive methane releases from the Gulf oil spill during the summer and fall of 2010.

It's been a rough year or so for the fossil fuels industry, what with exploding fracking wells, massive coal ash dumps, and oil spills from pipelines.

The 2016 settlement stemmed from a massive 2010 oil spill into Michigan's Kalamazoo River.

Rather than taking action to hold the company accountable, they were allowed to move forward with an even bigger and more flawed pipeline plan (Keystone XL) that would put both Canada and the U.S. at risk of a massive oil leak or spill.

For example, Earthjustice represents four U.S. tribes in an effort to block a massive tar sands pipeline in Canada that would put treaty fishing areas at risk of catastrophic oil spills.

The Obama administration is hiding the memos and e-mails behind official scientific assessments of the size of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a lawsuit filed September 16 by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility... Continue reading →

I can easily imagine a massive collision or explosion that would rupture many more tanks, spilling a lot more oil.

NASA shows images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, revealing for the first time a massive «arm» hundreds of miles long.

As for the downside potential for a massive spill of crude oil fouling beaches, ruining fishing grounds, destroying the coastal tourism economy, and killing vast numbers of marine animals, the plan says we must be prepared «to provide a timely and comprehensive response.»