Sentences with phrase «oil gusher in»

Good news for BP Plc. and other oil, coal and chemical companies seeped out last week from New Orleans, barely noticed in the blanket coverage of the as - yet uncontrolled oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP may shut down the oil gusher in the Gulf by the end of the summer, yet the harms from human - induced climate change will likely plague the world for centuries.

There have been a host of notable reader reactions to the continuing oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico seabed, the solutions being debated and the potential for us to change our behavior in response.

In the last few days there's been a mix of messages from government officials about whether the Obama administration has the authority to take control of the unrelenting seabed oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

His post examining assertions that Aliso Canyon was comparable to the BP oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico is particularly valuable.

3:00 p.m. Updated The Times Green blog has a piece on efforts to track the condition of a deepwater coral reef threatened by the underwater oil gusher in the Gulf.

Not exact matches

It may be that students seeing the new pictures of the oil industry will think better of Standard Oil than did their fathers who were taught in terms of the Rockefeller trust and gusheoil industry will think better of Standard Oil than did their fathers who were taught in terms of the Rockefeller trust and gusheOil than did their fathers who were taught in terms of the Rockefeller trust and gushers.

A bit of history: when the famous Leduc No. 1 well near Edmonton blew in 1947, launching Canada's modern oil and gas industry, the gusher pushing skyward was said to be light and pure enough to pour into your gas tank.

Tucking away high dividend - paying oil stocks in a tax shelter like a Roth IRA is one of the most underrated ways that an investor can accelerate the journey of turning an income stream into an income gusher.

When the oil wells produce more oil — say, because a new well has become a gusher — the power - plant burns more oil in order to maintain the proper pipeline pressure.

Blood's stunning centrepiece — a newly struck oil gusher that erupts into a fountain of flame — echoes the hellish beauty of the locust holocaust in Terrence Malick's just - as - dreamlike Days Of Heaven.

Tucking away high dividend - paying oil stocks in a tax shelter like a Roth IRA is one of the most underrated ways that an investor can accelerate the journey of turning an income stream into an income gusher.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

And please look back at the powerful feature story written for The Times by Adam Nossiter in 2010, when the oil concern here in the United States was not Keystone, but the Gulf of Mexico rig disaster and gusher.

While, as Zeller's piece notes, the problems at the regulatory commission do not appear as bad as those that plagued the Minerals (Mis) Management Service in the run - up to the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, a thorough review of the commission's practices is clearly needed.

Would things have been different on energy policy, I mused, if the spike in oil and gasoline prices had not come in 2008, but instead coincided with the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher?

David Brancaccio, a longtime correspondent for public radio and television, has written a fascinating post on his new Economy 4.0 blog for the Marketplace radio show analyzing the economic impacts of the gulf oil spill six months after explosions killed 11 workers and unleashed the gusher in the seabed.

It was always inconceivable that President Obama would consider using a nuclear explosion to cut the flow of oil from the unrelenting seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico — no matter how many other options faltered.

They echo discussions following the losses of two space shuttles, the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher and many other realms where low - probability, worst - case outcomes, or unknown unknowns, can up - end the greatest engineering achievements at great cost in lives or wealth.

Much of President Obama's first White House news conference in 10 months was, not surprisingly, dominated by statements assuring Americans that the administration was on the case from the first hours after the eruption of an oil gusher on the Gulf of Mexico seabed.

It's no accident that the 9 - 11 hijackers came from the biggest gusher of all in Saudi Arabia, or that Putin of the KGB took over in Russia after oil production started to take off again.

By comparison, It costs over $ 2 billion to drill an oil well in the GOM, whether it comes a gusher or not.

President Obama, who visited a solar - cell manufacturer in California today in one of his frequent trips focused on clean energy, is scheduled to return to the Gulf Coast on Friday to weigh the damage from dirty energy — in this case, the seabed gusher — and, hopefully, press the case for a new American relationship to oil, and energy more generally.

In regarding the spreading slick and unabated seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waterIn regarding the spreading slick and unabated seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waterin the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waterin America's Arctic waters.

2:30 p.m. Updated President Obama delivered a statement on BP and the seabed oil gusher today, decrying the «ridiculous spectacle» of the three main companies involved in the mess pointing fingers at each other in congressional hearings.

The team will attempt to understand the fate and distribution of the methane released in the BP oil gusher.

In 1969, an oil spill in Santa Barbara, California — of only 100,000 barrels, less than the two - day output of the BP gusher — prompted Richard Nixon to create the EPA and sign the Clean Air AcIn 1969, an oil spill in Santa Barbara, California — of only 100,000 barrels, less than the two - day output of the BP gusher — prompted Richard Nixon to create the EPA and sign the Clean Air Acin Santa Barbara, California — of only 100,000 barrels, less than the two - day output of the BP gusher — prompted Richard Nixon to create the EPA and sign the Clean Air Act.

Private equity firms from New York are pouring billions of dollars into the «Oil Patch» in hopes of hitting a gusher.