Sentences with phrase «oil fires at»

I do remember Sagan predicting the Kuwait oil fires at the end of the first Gulf War would cause global cooling (which did not happen).

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SUPERIOR, Wis. — The mayors of the Lake Superior twin port cities near last week's oil refinery explosion and fire are calling on its owners to stop using a toxic chemical compound at the site.

Oil's price also has been firming as Houthi rebels in Yemen have increased a campaign of firing missiles into Saudi Arabia, both at oil facilities and civilian areas, but those efforts have so far failOil's price also has been firming as Houthi rebels in Yemen have increased a campaign of firing missiles into Saudi Arabia, both at oil facilities and civilian areas, but those efforts have so far failoil facilities and civilian areas, but those efforts have so far failed.

Aerial video of a fire burning at an oil refinery in Wisconsin after an explosion this morning.

A convention center in Minnesota has opened to accept people forced from their homes by a smoky fire at a nearby Wisconsin oil refinery.

Superior Fire Chief Steve Panger initially told The Associated Press that six were taken to hospitals in nearby Duluth, Minnesota, after the explosion Thursday at the Husky Energy oil refinery.

KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait's state - run oil company says it has contained a fire at an onshore oil rig in the country's southwestern oilfields.

Those stations will likely be retired under the plan, as would two oil - fired units, one each at the Possum Point and Yorktown power stations, Koonce said.

This crackdown is partly due to a string of recent, highly - publicized disasters including the West Virginia coal mine explosion, an oil rig south of Louisiana that blew up, and a fire at a Washington State oil refinery.

In 2002, he fired nearly half of PDVSA's workforce, and at times he tasked PDVSA with duties that had nothing to do with the oil business, such as buying and distributing food, or loaning money to farmers.

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP)-- The mayors of the Lake Superior twin port cities near last week's oil refinery explosion and fire are calling on its owners to stop using a toxic chemical compound at the site.

These included overly optimistic economic growth and oil price assumptions; cutting the contingency reserve by two - thirds; selling shares in GM at fire sale prices; raiding EI revenues; and even booking «savings» from unilateral changes to federal employees» sick leave benefits.

Despite the unforeseen fall in oil prices in 2014, the Conservative government, with a lot of slight of hand (reduction in contingency reserve, selling GM shares at fire sale prices, optimistic economic and oil price assumptions), produced a budget that financed all of its pre-election promises, while still leaving a surplus of $ 1.4 billion in 2015 - 16 rising to $ 4.8 billion in 2019 - 20.

The intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a more volatile form like gasoline.

CALGARY — Multiple workers were injured and some transported to hospital on Thursday morning after a fire broke out at Husky Energy Inc.'s refinery in Superior, Wisc. putting the Calgary - based oil producer on the defensive, as it argued there were no known commonalities between the accident and other recent operational mistakes.

Dataminr for Finance alerted clients to an explosion and fire at one of the largest oil refineries in the world nearly 10 hours before the story hit major news networks.

There was no immediate report of what caused the fire at the specialty chemical complex, which provides products and services to the oil and gas industry.

That could rise quickly, with the current on - fire stock market, rising oil prices, and unemployment at its lowest level since 2007.

Tradition dictates that a disgruntled priest who was bitter at being passed over for promotion had told the ruling Muslim caliph that a priest simply «greased the chain of iron that held the lamp over the tomb with oil of balsam» and, once the shrine had been sealed, «applied a match through the roof to the other extremity of the chain» so that «the fire descended immediately to the wick of the lamp and lighted it».

... When the Christians assembled in their Temple at Jerusalem to celebrate Easter, the chaplains of the Church, making use of a pious fraud, greased the chain of iron that held the lamp over the Tomb with oil of balsam; and... when the Arab officer sealed up the door which led to the Tomb, they applied a match, and the fire descended immediately to the wick of the lamp and lighted it.

The last thing you want is the oil to spill out and then cause smoking from the oven and then the smoke will leak out of the oven and set the fire alarm off and then next thing you know, you're in a cloud of garlic oil smoke and the alarm wont shut up so you're standing in front of the alarm, fanning it with a pillow because that's all you could find at the moment.

At a time when the conversation around palm oil centres on deforestation, fires and habitat loss — and global demand shows no signs of abating — several companies have come together to create Palm Done Right, a new standard for ethical palm oil production...

When you're cooking lamb at home, keep in mind that although lamb may be cooked the same as beef, it's best when marinated with olive oil, garlic and herbs and then slow - cooked over an indirect fire until it reaches an internal temperature of 145 degrees F (about 20 minutes per pound plus 25 minutes for a boneless leg).

3 tablespoons roasted peanut oil 1 medium red onion, finely diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 small serrano pepper, seeded and finely chopped 1 - 2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground turmeric 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 can (14.5 ounces) crushed fire roasted tomatoes 1 small can (6 ounces) tomato paste, optional 1 cup creamy peanut butter 4 cups vegetable stock 1 butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1/2 ″ chunks (my chunks weighed in at 1 pound 4 ounces) 2 cups cooked chickpeas 1/2 cup spicy peanuts, finely chopped (recipe follows) Fine sea salt, to taste

Fires have been reported at over 80 locations in the country, including an oil refinery in Ichihara, near Tokyo, where huge balls of flame reached into the sky after natural gas storage tanks were set ablaze.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

Edna Wells Handy, acting chief compliance officer at the housing authority, said that of 277 heating technicians, 147 have either expired certifications or no certifications from the Fire Department of New York for oil - burner operators.

A transformer fire Saturday at the Indian Point nuclear power plant resulted in an oil spill into the Hudson River.

Tuesday's fire explosion at a factory near Olam Oil Depot on the Sekondi - Takoradi highway left several workers injured.

Booms deployed into the Hudson River after a fire at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant caused an oil overflow (credit: CBS2)

Tasked to check the finding, MiniBooNE researchers fired a beam of normal matter muon neutrinos at a 12 - meter - wide spherical tank of mineral oil 500 meters away.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

At least three coal - fired power plants are under construction in the U.S. that are designed to have their CO2 emissions captured and sent to an oil field for enhanced oil recovery, including the Kemper County Energy Facility up the road from here.

The detonation also caused a chain reaction when a nearby ship, also carrying ammonium nitrate, exploded, setting fires at chemical tanks and oil refineries near the port.

Developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the device designed to burn off oil spills more completely.

The technology was developed at WPI by a team led by Ali Rangwala, professor of fire protection engineering, as an outgrowth of research funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at assessing the feasibility of using in - situ burns to clean up oil spills in remote locations in the Arctic, where harsh weather can make it difficult to quickly mobilize clean - up equipment and crews.

Called the Flame Refluxer, the technology, developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with funding from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), could make it possible to burn off spilled oil quickly while producing relatively low levels of air pollutants.

At its peak this month, there were almost 1200 fires burning across Indonesia — most of them lit illegally to clear land for palm oil and timber.

Indeed, Kuwaiti scientists used ants and fringe - toed lizards, a desert species of reptile, to monitor the lingering effects of the well fires at Kuwait's Al - Burgan oil fields during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Last November Helmut Krämer, head of the safety physics section at the Federal Institute of Metrology in Brunswick, northern Germany, was asked by the German oil industry to investigate a rash of up to 40 petrol fires at filling stations over the preceding two years.

At a test tank in Ottawa, Canada, engineers experiment with a fire - resistant barrier that can contain the oil.

Oil leaked into the Hudson River on Sunday after a transformer fire and explosion a day earlier at the Indian Point nuclear plant north of New York City, putting the local environment at risk

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

I know we do a lot of high intensity workouts together, so today I wanted to slow things down and show you another style I use to train that really fires up the intrinsic stabilizing muscles of the hips, butt and core - those muscles that support our posture, alignment AND sculpt those dangerous curves:) You can do this at home with a couple jars of peanut butter (or coconut oil, or light dumbbells) for props like I am - I had to eat some to even out the jar weight LOL.

Heat the olive oil in a pan at medium level stove fire and adds onion into it.

After he was fired from the Danny Oil Company, he worked at a creamery and his mother worked at Grand Central Market, which is still there today.

Fire of a rocket launcher at that oil tanker in the middle of the street, and watch it go down in flames.

This evening, beginning with Earth, Wind & Fire at 7 / 6C, the Documentary Channel will be airing five consecutive hours of documentaries that deal with alternative power sources; the effect of pollution on nature; the encroachment of development on the Amazonian rain forest, and the possibility of demand exceeding production of «cheap oil.»

We are a month into the fall movie season, a point at which the Oscar race should be well oiled and firing on all cylinders.

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.