Sentences with phrase «oil slick from»

In the opening scenes of THE RUNNER the oil slick from the 2010 BP spill is seen spreading over the gulf coast, over the wild life, crippling the fishermen, the local culture, and the economy; by the end of the film, the contamination will have infiltrated the landscape, political and personal, of the man at the center of the fight: a New Orleans politician — Democratic Representative Colin Pryce played by Oscar winner Nicolas Cage.

An oil slick from a natural seep lasts between one and seven days and reaches between 1 and 100 square kilometers.

This image shows the surface oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

good advice and good information:)(i do use the real whipped cream in a can though on the occasion that im too lazy to whip my own... usually when i make coffee with lots of coconut oil and do nt feel like whipping, the foamy cream on top keeps the oil slick from feeling too gnarly lol.

Since the 1970s and later, oil slicks from COP and others in the Santa Barbara Channel have been successfully mapped by remote sensing.

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Make sure you have a thin slick of oil at the bottom of your pan from the bacon.

I poured off a slick of separated oil from the base before putting the chocolate topping on.

I picked up a little coffee colored candle from the heady essential oil slick that is the Whole Body section of Whole Foods the other day.

Put a slick of olive oil on top — that'll keep it from oxidizing — keep it in your fridge, and use it in place of fresh herbs as a foil to richer, heavier dishes.

Another benefit is that during folding, the stroller remains in a standing position, which is a huge plus if you've ever wrestled with folding a stroller, trying to keep the fabric surfaces from rubbing against an oil - slicked, wet or dusty parking lot.

As the oil slick moves from the Gulf to the Florida coast, perhaps it can be a good teaching moment for all of us.

On top of the online reporting system for damage from the BP spill we looked at earlier, here's more crowdsourcing from the Gulf: a group called Grassroots Mapping is helping folks on the coast map the extent and at least some of the effects of the oil slick.

Crews from the Westchester County DPW and Liberty Lines dumped sand along the length of the oil slick.

The exact cause of the 1969 fire was unconfirmed, but people believe sparks from a passing train ignited an oil slick in the river.

The Coast Guard collected oil samples from the ASOP well and the slick, which were sent to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for chemical fingerprinting.

Now NOAA is planning to take samples from shellfish and finned fish from oiled areas, using the most recent data available, while continuing to stay ahead of the advancing slick.

Several companies, for instance, suggested products to separate seaweed from the oil and water emulsion or «mousse» produced by a slick.

So researchers turned to two different estimation methods — one whereby total mortalities were estimated from the actual number of dead birds recovered, and another in which information on the geographic extent of the oil slick and seabird densities were used to estimate potential mortalities.

FROM the moment electric lights were introduced in 1880, their glow has been spreading across the night sky like a shining oil slick.

But by the time the large research ship arrived at the scene, all biologists could find was a slick of oil from the vanished victim.

They've tested dispersants to break up slicks, used cheerleader pom - poms to soak up oil, and developed software to predict the behavior of smoke from a burning spill.

Sprayed from planes or boats, dispersants reduce the surface tension at the oil - water interface, allowing waves to break the slick into tiny droplets.

When the slick gets too thin to insulate the vaporizing oil from the cold water underneath, the flames go out.

The slick from the Montara oil field off Australia's northwest coast spread as far as Indonesian waters.

It's not really an oil at all but gets the moniker from the slick, oil - like feeling that this highly saturated mineral oil leaves on the skin.

I poured off a slick of separated oil from the base before putting the chocolate topping on.

It was turning from well - behaved to oil slick, from pretty clear to full of breakouts and then, within 24 hours, to dry, itchy and flaking.

In a predominate palette of black and silver with splashes of white and red, the oil slick leather - like cocktail dress and the gorgeous floral embroidered sheath turned plenty of heads, but it was the red carpet - worthy beaded fit - and - flare frock along with the peplum tulle ball gown that drew scores of audible oohs and aahs from the audience.

A few of the colors within this collection will already be familiar to you from the Neon Pop line, and of course Oil Slick is their permanent black creme.

Featuring a colorful cast of characters — from identical twin marijuana moguls to a one - armed treasure hunter to a slick oil company rep trying to swindle his own mother — it tells the stories of folk on the fringes, many of whom can only find common ground in their shared desire to carve out a living (some noble, some less so) in their tiny corner of the world.

I needn't have worried: far from the pock - marked oil slick I had eaten before, this second example was rich and tasty, the meat perfectly cooked and resting on a fragrant bed of herb - scented beans.

In the sand level, Sonic will slip down an oil slick, but this is no different from snowboarding down a mountain.

Power - ups and weaponry offer a range of different purposes including the nullifier that removes every opponent's weapon or power - up throughout the entire field of cars, while oil slicks can be spilled to send opponents spinning out, a turbo syphon which transfers turbo energy from an opponent directly to your car and booster jets provide a serious increase in speed.

An overexposed oil slick hooks her mouth and obscures her neck, coaxing two tectonic plates from the formal topography of a face.

It comprises cracked chunks of asphalt pavement, oil - slick - covered stones, and seemingly handmade orbs suspended from the ceiling.

The piece spreads out over the gallery floor in an irregular shape that reminds you of an oil slick, or an aerial view of a landscape or maybe a cloud bank seen from a distance.

A horse costume lay on a glossy white vanity in Sarah Michelson's dressing room; Sam Lewitt offered tiny spinning spheres emerging from what looked like an oil slick; and framed pages of an old celestial handbook turned up on the walls throughout the museum, placed there by Lutz Bacher.

Oil film simulation diagramming hydrocarbon compositions and behavior from both the initial surface slick as well as deep subsurface plumes resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spiOil film simulation diagramming hydrocarbon compositions and behavior from both the initial surface slick as well as deep subsurface plumes resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spioil spill.

As federal officials prepare to test whether they can ignite a patch of the oil slick spreading from the seafloor wreckage of the Gulf of Mexico well, seasoned specialists say the logic in pursuing this option is clear and well established by decades of testing.

While the risk to coasts is likely to quickly recede, biologists have expressed strong concerns about the use of nearly 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants that don't destroy surface slicks, but simply cause the oil to disperse and sink (not to mention the dispersants sprayed at the point where oil gushed from the seabed a mile down).

To the west of the oil slicks and fleets of vessels working to seal the BP well, another less invisible stain, mainly the result of vast amounts of nitrogen and other nutrients washing down the Mississippi River from agricultural lands upstream, has spread beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

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And this, more than anything else, is why we're now seeing the beginning of a transitional energy economy — one that will take us from an oil - slicked, coal - fired obscenity to a clean and green renewable energy future.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

David Dickins, an engineer from San Diego who has spent 30 years studying how to clean up oil spills in icy waters, said that while the ice impeded the use of tools like booms that hold a slick in place, the ice also naturally contained the oil, giving response teams more time to act before environmental damage occurred.

More to come including a leaky settling pond, an oil slick off Gulfport, and severe erosion resulting from ill - conceived oil spill response practices on Dauphin Island.

The AGM comes less than two weeks after Shell spilled more than 88,000 gallons of oil from a group of four underwater oil wells located some 97 miles south of Port Fourchon in Louisiana and creating a 13 mile - wide slick on the water's surface.

Artists angry about BP's devastating spill in the Gulf of Mexico created an «oil slick» of their own Monday in front of the Tate Britain in London, protesting the museum's acceptance of sponsorship from the company.

From hundreds of feet above, the massive oil slick — yes, the one that's bigger than Maryland — is, well, pretty unimpressive looking.

The debate over whether or not oil from the massive slick in the Gulf of Mexico would wash ashore on the mainland is over: It already has, and I've got the pictures to prove it.