Sentences with phrase «of spill cleanup»

The panel, convened at the request of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, has also recommended more research on the development and validation of spill cleanup methods that limit habitat damage and threats to wildlife, and methods to identify endpoints for cleanup operations based on habitat recovery.

If we can achieve a state akin to the blue whirl at larger scale, we can further reduce airborne emissions for a much cleaner means of spill cleanup,» explained Gollner.

He's an environmental engineer who's a veteran of decades of spill cleanups and studies.

Not exact matches

Take what happened after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico: «The BP guy who was running the cleanup in Alabama saw a segment about us on Discovery Channel on Monday night, called us on Tuesday, we were there on Wednesday and had a purchase order by Friday,» recalls Dave Kroetsch, Aeryon co-founder and CEO.

It said cleanup operations were being co-ordinated with the Department of Emergency Management and other local authorities, and that the cause of the spill was being investigated.

In the event of a major spill, taxpayers would likely be responsible for shouldering most of the cleanup cost, which could easily surpass $ 10 billion, according to the advocacy group CRED.

But NEB's requirement that the parent company keep a half - billion in cash on hand may signal the potential for Kinder Morgan, Inc. to remain on the hook for full cleanup costs — raising serious concerns for the parent firm's finances in the event of a catastrophic spill.

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.

In the case of an oil spill cleanup, the costs are likely to be directly incurred by an insurance company, but the premiums paid for that insurance come at the expense of the value of the oil transportation service — the higher the expected clean - up costs from oil spills, the higher insurance premiums will be, and this will mean higher pipeline tolls, which in turn implies lower profits, taxes, and royalties on the products shipped.

Add a pack of wet wipes to your kids» lunchboxes for quick cleanup in case of spills or sticky hands.

All carpet shampoos use different formulas to either target specific types of messes and spills or to handle different sizes of cleanups.

Numerous factors complicated cleanup, including the size of the spill, the remote location and a lack of readily available equipment and effective chemical dispersants to dissolve the thick oil.

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J.P.S. Badyal and colleagues point out that oil - spill cleanup crews often use absorbents, like clays, straw and wool to sop up oil, but these materials aren't very efficient because they also sop up a lot of water.

But now, a team of researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering say their discovery of a type of fire tornado they call a «blue whirl» could lead to beneficial new approaches for reducing carbon emissions and improving oil spill cleanup.

When spills from tankers do happen, an array of cleanup and remediation techniques, along with specialized technology come to the fore, both to tackle the mess and save the wildlife caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A newly designed metallic soap reacts to a magnetic field, a first in soap research that could lead to better control of cleanup chemicals in situations like aquatic oil spills.

According to Scott Fields of the USCG Research and Development Center «in - situ burning is already a very successful process, but we want to improve the air quality for our first responders who are engaged in oil spill cleanup.»

Unpredictable neurons might cause us to take a wrong turn while walking home and discover a shortcut, or to spill acid on a pewter plate and during the cleanup to discover the process of etching.

Cleaning up the spill The EPA's emergency cleanup is a quick version of typical mine treatment.

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 United States and the United Nations are sending experts to Bangladesh to assess the impact and potential cleanup of a serious oil spill that threatens the Sundarbans, a globally important mangrove ecosystem and home to endangered river dolphins.

In the five years since the spill, Subra believes not nearly enough has been done to address the health consequences faced by the cleanup workers, their families and thousands of Gulf Coast residents.

After the spill BP responded with thousands of cleanup people, thousands of boats and thousands of kilometers of oil - containment booms.

GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy — When the Costa Concordia finally leaves Giglio Island sometime early next week, it will be traveling with one of the most impressive oil spill cleanup and environmental disaster response convoys ever assembled.

None of these methods can prevent oil spills, but they've helped make cleanups more efficient and predictable and helped prevent catastrophes in Alaska, off the coast of Oregon, and elsewhere.

MONDAY, August 23 (Health.com)-- Cleanup workers exposed to spilled oil may be at long - term risk for breathing trouble and other health problems, according to a new study examining the aftereffects of a 2002 oil spill in Spain.

The study results «indicate that participation in the cleanup of oil spills can have undesirable effects on health,» says the lead researcher, Joan Albert Barberà, MD, but he stresses that the cleanup workers in the study weren't sick.

Viscera Cleanup Detail is a fun co-op experience where the physical comedy of handling alien intestines, leaving bloody footprints, and spilling buckets is all the entertainment you need.

Although the price surge coincides with the cleanup of the March 24 oil spill off Alaska, the link between the two is unclear, Wilkins said.

Liable parties must bring in specialized equipment and massive groups of workers to conduct cleanups, as well as fund studies on the impacts of a spill, and remain tied to the damages years after cleanup is completed.

Oil spills happen without any advance notice, and the first wave of cleanup — all mechanical — begins within hours.

Oil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chSpill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chspill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosen.

I'd like to know if this penalty, and the billions spent on the cleanup of Prince William Sound will have resulted in true mitigation of the damage caused by the 1989 oil spill.

In a report published in Scientific Reports, researchers describe how they exposed herring and pink salmon embryos for a short period to levels of oil contaminants similar to the «safe» levels detected in samples of Prince William Sound seawater after the spill cleanup.

Yet, Attorney General McDaniel is taking spill cleanup advice from a firm known for cover - up and not clean - up, all under the guise of a robust independent investigation of Exxon.

Here's the latest from local and national media on the ongoing cleanup of the ExxonMobil oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas.

In a smart recap of the controversy over tar sands oil, Maddow uses the Mayflower oil spill as a lead - in to a discussion on the tar sands oil spill on the Kalamazoo River oil spill, which has become the most expensive oil spill in US history with cleanup costs surpassing $ 765 million dollars.

Since then, 22 families have been evacuated from their homes, the appearance of oiled birds and wildlife has raised concerns the oil has spread beyond the neighborhood and we've learned that a legal technicality exempts Exxon from being required to contribute money to a federal oil spill cleanup fund.

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Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.

First, most of the «allegations» that Exxon Mobil is referring to are actually criticisms of how the company didn't pay into a federal oil spill cleanup fund for the dilbit that traveled through the Pegasus pipeline.

Arkansas» Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the «independent analysis of the cleanup» of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O'Brien's, a firm with a history of oil spill cover - ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals.

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

On March 23, Reuters reported that cleanup crews had quarantined a portion of the heavily trafficked Houston Ship Channel in response to a significant oil spill.

At that ministerial, key agreements involving Arctic search and rescue, oil spill preparedness and cleanup, and inclusion of non-Arctic nations as Arctic Council observers were advanced.

InsideClimate's The Dilbit Disaster explores the million gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, which triggered the most expensive cleanup in U.S. history — more than $ 800 million.

Exxon's control of the oil spill response is reminiscent of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, when the polluter, BP, effectively controlled the response and cleanup.

The spill presented a unique cleanup challenge, because 6B was carrying bitumen, a thick crude oil mined from Canada's tar sands region that is thinned with a cocktail of liquid chemicals to form diluted bitumen, or dilbit.

With climate change wreaking havoc on the health of the nearby Great Lakes and the cleanup of the Kalamazoo spill still going on four years later, experts say Upton's pro-fossil fuel agenda is wearing thin with his constituents.