Sentences with phrase «oil disaster spill»

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The public outcry from an environmental disaster such as an oil spill or violating the pay laws of your employees will cost your business much more than the expenses of being socially responsible.

In addition, Mui reported on major international stories, including the Greek financial crisis and Brexit, as well as national disasters such as the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

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.

Hodgson points to disasters like the Gulf oil spill and the West Virginia mine collapse where inquiries found flawed governance at BP (BP) and Massey Energy, respectively.

Obama's reign began with him having to deal with one costly disaster after another, SARS, the Gulf Oil Spill, Mortgage collapse, banks and huge car companies nearly going bankrupt and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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

Disasters of the magnitude of the Gulf oil spill are hard to get a handle on.

President Obama's pick to oversee the gulf coast oil spill disaster fund is 9/11's special master Kenneth Feinberg.

«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.

The outgoing BP chief was answering questions on the oil spill's implications for the UK, including whether a similar disaster could occur with operations in the North Sea.

Even after the financial meltdown, the BP oil spill and the Massey mine disaster, these guys still want more deregulation.

BP lost $ 17 billion in the three months to June as it faced huge clean - up costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

«We have also asked the U.S. Small Business Administration to activate all appropriate federal disaster declaration clauses that would enable the SBA to assist the small businesses in the state that will be impacted by the oil spill...

BATON ROUGE — Today, Governor Bobby Jindal sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis of the U.S. Department of Labor requesting through the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 for disaster related workforce training and job placement services and unemployment benefit services for workers displaced as a result of the oil spiOil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 for disaster related workforce training and job placement services and unemployment benefit services for workers displaced as a result of the oil spioil spill.

But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again.

They could also be used as environmental sensors, monitoring an oil spill or chemical contamination site, for instance, and then dissolving once the disaster is cleaned up, saving recovery teams the ordeal of collection.

For years, scientists have been inspired by nature to innovate solutions to tricky problems, even oil spills — humanmade disasters with devastating environmental and economic consequences.

Elaborating on the potential application of the cellulose aerogels, Asst Prof Duong said, «Oil spills are serious disasters that threaten marine ecosystems.

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

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.

That would make BP's Gulf spill already worse than the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which discharged roughly 11 million gallons of oil off Alaska.

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

20 Years After the Exxon Valdez: Preventing — and Preparing for — the Next Oil Spill Disaster [Slide Show]

On this week's show: Five years of science following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

Hurricanes, droughts, oil spills, wildfires and other disasters are natural labs.

Oil spills kill a lot of wildlife quickly, but their long - term effects are hard to establish because to compare the situation before and after a disaster, a study would need to have been already up and running before the disaster occurred.

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.

As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill proved, allowing drilling technology to outpace the development of sound safeguards is courting disaster.

The Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance, based in Geneva, will provide emergency technical assistance to countries that would not otherwise be able to contain or monitor damage from disasters such as oil spills and chemical accidents.

Just look at the many ecological disasters around the world triggered by oil spills.

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.

In what is perhaps the worst man - made environmental disaster in American history, the BP spill ultimately spewed 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before the well was sealed.

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.

The potential for disaster in oil spills lies in the volatility of petroleum.

Texas OneGulf was established in January 2015 as a Texas Center of Excellence after the Deepwater Horizon disaster to advance research into ongoing impacts from the oil spill and other long - term issues that threaten the health and sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil spills are serious environmental hazards, as the Deepwater Horizon disaster demonstrated back in 2010.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now cost BP $ 1.25 bn (# 870m), as its much - criticised chief executive vows to spend «what it takes» to fix the Deepwater Horizon disaster that has caused growing anger across America.

More than half a decade ago, a BP - operated oil rig spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, marking the largest spill of its kind in history and an environmental disaster of epic proportions.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and an ecological disaster.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

The true story of the oil spill disaster of 2010 is given the disaster movie treatment by Battleship director Peter Berg

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

Peter Berg puts a blue - collar spin on the 2010 BP oil spill in this immensely entertaining disaster epic.

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have carved out a niche as re-constructors of real - life disasters, from a Navy Seal op in 2014's Lone Survivor to the BP oil spill in last year's Deepwater Horizon.

Directed by Peter Berg, the film is a dramatization of the 2010 disaster in which the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes, thus creating the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

A set of resources about the Sea Empress Disaster - the oil spill in Pembrokeshire.

Beginning in 2010, Christiana joined the Department of Energy to work on the Oil Spill Commission following the disaster that struck the Gulf Region.

So when shopping time comes, I make a quick check to be sure that each company on my watch list is still desirable — meaning no recent disasters that could threaten future dividends (like an oil spill).