Sentences with phrase «new oil disaster»

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

Following the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, Raitt oversaw a series of new safety oversight measures, including restrictions on single - person crews and unattended trains, and improved tracking or labelling of dangerous oil products.

«Instead of protecting our waters from another oil spill, like the one that devastated the Gulf, this new federal plan only increases the chances of another disaster taking place,» Cuomo said.

«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York State.

«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York state.

A study published Aug. 28, 2017, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds a new dimension to the controversial decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants immediately above the crippled oil well at the seafloor during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

The spill also had a galvanizing effect on lawmakers who passed the federal 1990 Oil Pollution Act to help stave off a repeat of the disaster by increasing oversight, stiffening penalties, mandating contingency planning, and creating new research programs.

The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.

The Obama administration has issued new rules governing offshore drilling, six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 rig workers and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2011, he reported to Sector New Orleans as Chief of the Incident Management Division, where he led a team of 14 personnel that successfully managed 31 Federal oil, hazardous substance and disaster projects totaling $ 26.5 million.

With these he recreates masterpieces ranging from those of Turner and the Impressionists who were pushing the limits of the brilliant new hues available to them (A Disaster at Sea aka The Wreck of the Amphitrite, after William Turner, Flowers, after Vincent van Gogh, Still Life with Begonias, after Paul Cézanne and Flowers, after Odilon Redon II, all 2016) to the immense oil and acrylic expanses of Abstract Expressionist painters (Double Scramble, after Frank Stella and No. 3 / No.

4/5 + 2 AP Frank Stella Untitled, 1959 Enamel on canvas board 17 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches Collection of Bill and Sheila Lambert Dan Flavin «monument» for V. Tatlin, 1967 cool white fluorescent light 96 x 28 x 5 inches Robert Morris Untitled, 1976 - 1980 Felt with metal grommets 96 x 85 x 20 inches Back Gallery Richard Serra Untitled, 1975 Paintstick on paper 37 3/8 x 49 5/8 inches Private collection, Switzerland Ad Reinhardt Black Painting, 1960 - 1966 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 inches Tony Smith New Piece, 1966 Welded bronze, chemically treated black 20 3/4 x 43 1/2 x 42 inches Jo Baer Untitled, 1972 Oil on canvas 72 x 72 inches Second Floor (left to right) Rotunda Agnes Martin Untitled, 1965 Black ink on paper 11 x 11 inches David Hammons Untitled (Basketball Drawing), 2006/7 Dirt on paper, wood frame, asphalt Overall: 120 1/2 x 100 x 27 inches Robert Indiana Love, 1966 - 1999 Stainless steel 36 x 36 x 18 inches Front Gallery Andy Warhol Ambulance Disaster, c. 1963 Silkscreen ink on paper 40 x 30 inches Anselm Reyle Untitled, 2006 Mixed media on canvas, acrylic box 92 x 78 1/2 inches Mark Grotjahn Untitled (White Butterfly), 2002 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 inches Sol LeWitt Progressive Structure, 1997 Painted wood 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 inches Agnes Martin Untitled, 1960 Oil and ink on linen 12 x 12 inches Liza Lou Comfort Blanket, 2005 Cotton and glass beads 29 1/2 x 53 1/8 inches Private collection, New York Günter Uecker Gegenstroemung II, 1965 Nails on canvas, painted with white color 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches

On view at the gallery will be new works from his «Pipeline» series that are «inspired by the dichotomy of the Gulf of Mexico, beautiful and tranquil (a vacation spot), yet the heart of controversy and disaster, from hurricanes to the recent oil spill.»

Early on, Inside Climate News began using the shorthand «dilbit» for this substance and the name is catching on, including in the title of the new e-book consolidating the reporting — «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of.»

8:15 p.m. Update Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist at the Alberta School of Business of the University of Alberta, has predicted that the rail disaster will not boost prospects for pipeline transport of oil, but instead create new pressures on the oil business all around (most of which are appropriate and good, to my mind):

And the disaster in the Gulf only underscores that even as we pursue domestic production to reduce our reliance on imported oil, our long - term security depends on the development of alternative sources of fuel and new transportation technologies.

Is there reason to think that this time — even with the added prod for new energy policies from the ongoing gulf oil disaster — that Americans will get out of the fossil - fueled comfort zone?

Oil and gas exploration, drilling, and related disasters are incompatible with New York's multi-billion-dollar coastal economy.

Written as a narrative, this page - turner takes an inside look at what happened to two families, a community, unprepared agencies and an inept company during an environmental disaster involving a new kind of oil few people know much about.

Seven years is about three lifetimes in turbine technology yet there was no mention of newer, safer machines, nor were the words «Fukushima disaster» or «BP oil spill» heard in answer.

What's the difference between building wind turbines on expropriated property and doing the same thing for a new oil / gas pipeline, oh yes the wind turbine doesn't create an environmental disaster that destroys the surround properties, wild life and ground water that takes generations to become usable again.

If you want a quick overview of all the impacts that the BP oil spill has had (and is having) on the entire marine ecosystem, from the ocean floor to the air above the surface, look no further than NRDC's new Go Below the Surface of the Gulf Oil Disaster interactive graphoil spill has had (and is having) on the entire marine ecosystem, from the ocean floor to the air above the surface, look no further than NRDC's new Go Below the Surface of the Gulf Oil Disaster interactive graphOil Disaster interactive graphic.

(12) the establishment of such a vehicle fleet and distribution system would provide a large market that would mobilize private resources to substantially advance the technology and expand the production of alcohol fuels in the United States and abroad; (13) the United States has an urgent national security interest to develop alcohol fuels technology, production, and distribution systems as rapidly as possible; (14) new cars sold in the United States that are equipped with an internal combustion engine should allow for fuel competition by being flexible fuel vehicles, and new diesel cars should be capable of operating on biodiesel; and (15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy from high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.

... Oil Saves New England... During the coldest days this past January, the New England grid was on the brink of disaster, and only pre-planning by ISO - NE, with emergency actions by the Coast Guard and luck kept the lights on.