Sentences with phrase «oil disaster»

The 2010 BP oil disaster gave us a stark reminder of the dangers of offshore oil drilling.

Past oil disasters have shown that only 15 to 25 percent of the oil can be effectively removed from the marine environments.

Since this situation produces so many unhappy oil disaster headlines, we take pleasure in sharing the details of a rare success.

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.

Brad Johnson, then writing for Think Progress, explained that Witt O'Brien's PIER Systems was «being used by Unified Command for media and public information management» during the Deepwater Horizon spill in an article titled, «BP's Secret Army Of Oil Disaster Contractors.»

With lyricism, humor, and galvanizing insight, Ensler discerns profound connections between tortured women in the Congo, the corporate pillaging of African resources, her battle with uterine cancer, and the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

So I'm glad that the leak might finally be stopped — but assessing and cleaning up the worst oil disaster in US history is another matter altogether.

As his city, state and region struggled this summer to make sense of what the Gulf Coast oil disaster would mean, Kenneth Smith, 50, prepared to hang up his apron and move from feeding people's bellies to feeding their souls.

This includes programs for maneuvering robotic subs (as with the efforts to contain BP's Deepwater oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico) or sophisticated mapping tools for emergency - response crews using mobile devices to assess earthquake damage (as in Haiti).

This was the case in major oil disasters such as the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Exxon Valdez oil disaster shows how woefully inadequate that sum of money would be.

I'm down on the Gulf coast again, my third trip since the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster began on April 20.

The project DEEPHORIZON is utilizing aerial images of the BP oil disaster spill in the Golf of Mexico proclaiming ironically the revival of «oil painting» that could be experienced this time live via mass media as a form of process based art.

His name is being invoked now in discussions of the unfolding oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the shifting chemistry of the oceans through the ongoing buildup of carbon dioxide.

But because the media seems to feel that nobody's interested the aftermath of the 2010 BP spill, the biggest offshore oil disaster in US history, you probably didn't hear about it.

Like, for instance, the gooey, viscous mess that spills forth from oil disasters or toxic containers.

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Considering the oil addiction this country has and the massive oil disaster we are facing in the Gulf of Mexico, you should know that disposable diapers are mainly plastic and made from oil.

Jeremy Zilar, one of the remarkable technical wizards at The Times who helped me build Dot Earth nearly three years ago, forwarded a couple of links to Web sites trying novel approaches to conveying aspects of the ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

JUNE 2012: In a series of reports, Tyee's Nikiforuk details U.S. investigators» damning account of how cultural and procedural failures at Enbridge enabled the Kalamazoo spill to become North America's worst inland oil disaster.

The Obama administration offered increased offshore drilling as part of compromise legislation, but in light of this new oil disaster, Kolstad said, offshore drilling will be put on hold, perhaps stalling the legislation.

Here's the link again: NRDC: Go Below the Surface of the Gulf Oil Disaster Like this?

This methane plume is not enough to affect modern climate, according to Kessler, but the BP oil disaster presents a unique laboratory for his research.

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 graphic.

With staple food prices to rise over 45 % over the next decade and major oil disasters bringing national focus to our over-dependence on fossil fuels, 2 % is no chump change.

As the trial approaches, BP must pay for the complete restoration of the Gulf Coast after its deadly oil disaster.

Again, 2 % of total energy consumption doesn't sound like much, but consider this: the amount oil spilled in the Gulf Oil Disaster equated to only about 6 hours of our total oil use.

In fact, you could argue that the BP spill has taught America as absolutely little as a major oil disaster possibly could.

Dozens of green groups now participate in a daily «oil disaster war room call» to plot their strategy.

In the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, there were undoubtedly failures of management and oversight, and there was potentially malfeasance (the investigations will play out for months).

For many living and working in this region, the Gulf Coast oil disaster has sparked unpleasant memories of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the area in August 2005.

The BP oil spill is already infamous as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history.

So, coming within hours of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster, and with the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl still fresh in people's minds, the sudden possibility of «cold fusion» captured everyone's attention.

If he is wise, Cuomo will shake up the leadership of his minerals division now, so he doesn't face a situation like the one confronting President Obama after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico prompted an after - the - fact reorganization of the federal Minerals (Mis) Managament Service.

Oil - eating microbes played the major role in degrading the oil and reducing the impact of the spilled oil during these past oil disasters.

The unfolding oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico shows what can happen when planners don't adequately consider scenarios in girding against «low probability, high consequence» risks.

The latest poll, however, shows the opposition snapping back after the offshore oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Cape Wind was approved at almost the same time as oil began to spill from the Deepwater oil disaster, making it a symbol of our new energy economy.

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?

The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, marked the beginning of the worst oil disaster in American history.

In the wake of the BP disaster, Andy Revkin wrote that «the oil disaster doesn't belong to BP, or to President Obama or his predecessor; we all own it.»

But the memories of that oil disaster seem to have faded in Brasilia.

The oil disaster is terrible.

And while his stance has certainly mellowed with the years - he apologized for his past comments and joined with churches in 2008 to fight malaria - his suggestion that God may have had a hand in the oil disaster that killed 11 and is threatening the Gulf Coast may take some by surprise.

Just a sample of what an imbecile he is, he stated that the BP oil disaster was an act of GOD!

Now that the federal government has restricted fishing in federal waters affected by the Gulf oil disaster, shall we now see the state governments restrict fishing in their jurisdictions?