Sentences with phrase «of oil pollution»

However, three or four years later the stock collapsed completely, probably as a result of the delayed damage caused by very low levels of oil pollution.

And because local people rely on fishing and on river water for drinking, the human impacts of oil pollution could be especially severe.

NOSDRA head Sir Peter Idabor warns that the leak could be three times as large as Shell admits and may be the country's worst case of oil pollution in 10 years.

Carrying a cargo of 11,000 tonnes of lubricating oil, the tanker broke into three parts and has been a chronic source of oil pollution over many years.

Mick Hamer's article on the danger of oil pollution from sunken ships (4 September, p 34) and the uncharacteristically histrionic editorial on the same subject (p 5) seriously overstate the potential for disaster.

Mick Hamer's article on the danger of oil pollution from sunken ships (4 September, p 34) and the uncharacteristically histrionic...

Concerned over the long - term effects Elin Sørhus has investigated the short term effects of oil pollution on haddock roe and larva, but there are indications that the long - term effects also are very serious.

The Niger Delta is the world capital of oil pollution, the Deepwater Horizon disaster is not a disaster at all compared to this part of the world, more a minor incident.

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's «Chernobyl» and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.

The change that Buhari champions should include justice for the victims of oil pollution in the Niger Delta, and that's why the ECOWAS judgment is so significant because it provides the framework for action.»

«It is a great way of attracting attention to the risks of oil pollution to penguins and marine ecosystems,» said Dann.

Penguin populations have been declining and shifting globally as a result of oil pollution, overfishing, guano mining -LRB-!)

«Urban runoff is the largest source of oil pollution to the coastal environment.»

Now, over 25 years after the Exxon Valdez, scientists have confirmed that those low levels of oil pollution can be linked to failure to thrive — by breaking fish hearts.

The government's national oil spill detection and response agency (Nosdra) says that between 1976 and 1996 alone, more than 2.4 m barrels contaminated the environment... With 606 oilfields, the Niger delta supplies 40 % of all the crude the United States imports and is the world capital of oil pollution.