Sentences with phrase «oil pollution»

However, three or four years later the stock collapsed completely, probably as a result of the delayed damage caused by very low levels of oil pollution.

In 1954 a treaty was adopted dealing with oil pollution from ships.

They thought they had found a rare example of a species able to adapt to crude oil pollution.

Damage is alleged to have been caused to the vessel and oil pollution resulted leading to significant clean - up operations.

Thus far, member nations have signed two legally binding instruments: a search and rescue agreement in 2011, and a marine oil pollution preparedness and response agreement in 2013.

And because local people rely on fishing and on river water for drinking, the human impacts of oil pollution could be especially severe.

You would only have surface rights but just wait a few years and oil pollution from the tar sands will be enough to make it economical to recycle a few barrels at a time.

NOSDRA head Sir Peter Idabor warns that the leak could be three times as large as Shell admits and may be the country's worst case of oil pollution in 10 years.

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's «Chernobyl» and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.

Many of its files will be familiar to regular readers of the national media, and include the $ 9 - billion Sino - Forest Corp. shareholder class action claim; an application against Rogers Communications Inc. and Chatr Wireless Inc. involving a constitutional challenge to the Competition Act; and a case concerning oil pollution in the Amazon in which the firm acted for Ecuadoran plaintiffs.

To underline her argument Sørhus shows a picture of a haddock larvae that was exposed to oil pollution for 24 hours, before hatching from roe.

Proffering solution to the crises in the region which has being further fueled by the activities of militancy, SERAP said, «An important part of the solution to the human rights crisis is for President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the ECOWAS Court judgment which ordered the Nigerian government to punish oil companies over oil pollution and devastation in the region.»

SPDC says it has delivered water and healthcare to the community and is supporting the implementation of the UNEP process by the government, which in June launched a $ 1 billion (# 800 million, 940 million euros) oil pollution clean - up programme in the Niger Delta.

Elin Sørhus is currently presenting a well - founded theory concerning why oil pollution is damaging haddock larvae more than zebrafish larvae and other fish species.

Cardiac Edema and Cranial Injuries Laboratory experiments involving zebrafish have previously shown that oil pollution causes the larvae to develop cardiac edema.

The petroleum industry's move into Norway's Barents Sea sector is being paralleled by active efforts to identify how much oil pollution can be tolerated by life in these far northern waters.

«Environment for me is not just about oil pollution,» Saro - Wiwa says.

We understand that environmentalism means more than simply dealing with oil pollution, plastic detritus or melting ice caps and are seeking to uncover and establish deeper intersectional ecological truths that reveal how we are truly embedded in this world.

According to a study carried out by the United States National Academy of Sciences oil pollution from ships fell by about 60 % during the 1980s, coinciding with the entry into force of MARPOL 73/78.

Representing a cruise line's chief engineer in a federal grand jury investigation for alleged Clean Water Act violations regarding oil pollution on the high seas.

N A: Chris was instructed on behalf of the Charterers in this unsafe port claim arising out of the grounding of the vessel and a serious oil pollution incident in Venezuela.

Members of our team have been involved in many of the larger oil pollution, rig and mining casualties and disputes including the following: -

As a result, communities badly affected by oil pollution are sinking further into poverty, unable to eat the contaminated fish or drink the water, stained black from the pollution.»

Scientists thought guppies in Northern Trinidad could be a rare example of adaptation to crude oil pollution.

Concerned over the long - term effects Elin Sørhus has investigated the short term effects of oil pollution on haddock roe and larva, but there are indications that the long - term effects also are very serious.

Mick Hamer's article on the danger of oil pollution from sunken ships (4 September, p 34) and the uncharacteristically histrionic editorial on the same subject (p 5) seriously overstate the potential for disaster.

Carrying a cargo of 11,000 tonnes of lubricating oil, the tanker broke into three parts and has been a chronic source of oil pollution over many years.

The change that Buhari champions should include justice for the victims of oil pollution in the Niger Delta, and that's why the ECOWAS judgment is so significant because it provides the framework for action.»

On November 9, 2011, Amnesty International called on Shell to make an initial $ 1 billion payment to clean up oil pollution in the Niger Delta.

«We wanted dialogue with the President so that he will know what is going on in the region; the oil pollution, the eco system that has been destroyed and environmental degradation.

Writing in the journal, Conservation Biology, scientists recommend the adoption of measures to mitigate against a range of effects including; food scarcity (where fisheries compete for the same resources), being caught in fishing nets, oil pollution and climate change.

Mick Hamer's article on the danger of oil pollution from sunken ships (4 September, p 34) and the uncharacteristically histrionic...

Tolerance levels are measured when a species is at the larval stage, the phase in its growth where it has the greatest vulnerability to oil pollution.

«The conclusion is that roe from haddock, a marine cold water species, has a dramatic response to oil pollution and among a varying list of injuries can develop a very deformed cranium at the larval stage.

«Oil pollution a threat to haddock.»

«We have to consider the possibility that something similar can transpire when it comes to our stock of haddock, especially with the knowledge that the haddock larvae is particularly vulnerable to oil pollution.

However, research now reveals that the roe and larvae of haddock are more susceptible to oil pollution than previously thought.

Conservation Status Populations of western gulls have restricted range and therefore, are vulnerable to oil pollution, ocean acidification, and climate change.

Persistant challenges to Brandt's cormorant include pesticides and oil pollution.

The Niger Delta is the world capital of oil pollution, the Deepwater Horizon disaster is not a disaster at all compared to this part of the world, more a minor incident.

And the National Acadmy of Sciences has assembled a useful set of reports on oil pollution.

Now, over 25 years after the Exxon Valdez, scientists have confirmed that those low levels of oil pollution can be linked to failure to thrive — by breaking fish hearts.

But the greatest damage followed other human activity: devastation by fishing fleets, plastic and oil pollution, the introduction of new predators, and entanglement in fishing gear all took their toll.

Friends of the Earth has won regional, national and international limits on air, water and oil pollution from cruise ships, cargo ships, oil tankers, ferries and recreational water craft.

Oil pollution by oil companies in Nigeria increases violence and killings at the sites of extraction.»

When Savage was contacted by Riki Ott, a marine toxicologist specializing in oil pollution, she finally put the pieces together.