Sentences with phrase «oil spills happen»

Even if it is not expanded, it is not so much a question of if more oil spills happen, but when.

Oil spills happen without any advance notice, and the first wave of cleanup — all mechanical — begins within hours.

«We know that oil spills happen — and that they will happen again,» says Roman Netzer, a researcher and biologist at SINTEF.

More than 800 oil spills happened in the mid-Atlantic region during the same time period, according to a 1973 Coast Guard survey.

BP's disastrous oil spill happened 8 years ago.

I haven't had an oil company in my portfolio since I sold BP when the Gulf oil spill happened.

However the samples on which this conclusion is based were taken before the oil spill happened.

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«They transfer that two tenths of a percent chance that the nuke melts down or the oil spill happens, or whatever the abomination is, to the state.

Not exact matches

The study, in fact, does not address the issue of whether a dilbit spill, once it has happened, has more serious consequences than any other oil spill.

This situation wouldn't have happened if the EPA had done their job and reported that an oil spill is inevitable and would be disasterous.

Andrew Weaver, BC Green Party leader, said that while what happens on the ocean is clearly a federal responsibility, spilled oil washing up on the coast is well within provincial jurisdiction.

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

Now seventeen years after the most damaging oil spill in U.S. history, what's happened to the affected Alaskan environment?

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico happened.

She points out what happened after the Exxon Valdez tragedy, where an oil tanker caused a major oil spill along the coast of Alaska in 1989.

UC Davis School of Vet Med: Oiled Wildlife Care Network: What Happens During an Oil Spill.

Put into oven on middle rack, and put a baking sheet with a rim under it in case the oil from the meat happens to spill over (should only happen with fattier meats if at all).

This movie is based on the BP oil spill that happened in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

What if the problem were to predict what would happen if the oil spill in the Gulf had not been stopped, and using this information to convince policy makers to make changes in environmental protections?

This started happening right after getting an oil change, so I suspect that the guy who did the oil change spilled some oil, and when the engine gets nice and hot it simply burns off that excess oil.

I can see bad things happening with a hoover in the oil filler cap... Last time I tried to drain a bit of oil out the sump plug fell into the drip tray and it was a nightmare getting it back in again before all of the oil spilled out.

BP is another classic example: in fact, that company was in a number of SRI portfolios before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but as soon as that happened it was excluded.

For example, Enbridge is excluded from the Jantzi Social Index because of the big oil spill that happened in Michigan in 2010.

ETF for India, China, Vietnam, etc.)-- Vanguard is good; I am in process of replacing the TD eFunds with Vanguard ETFs (I should have done it much earlier but they were under in my RRSP, it should have not mattered, the corresponding ETFs were low too)-- Big companies are good (McDonalds, Starbucks, Pfizer, WM) until they are not so perhaps I should get rid of them and buy more Vanguard ETFs — Buying distressed companies could be a winning proposition but have I very mixed results so better not (BP and Transocean bought after the oil spill, Nortel, BlackBerry, and Nokia — BP and NOKIA good, Transocean under not much, but under, BB very, very bad, and Nortel no comments)-- Berkshire is very good as it is a kind of ETF but what would happen after Warren Buffett (who would have thought AIG would need to be bailed out and the shareholders wiped out in the process or other cases where individuals brought companies down for example Barings the oldest bank in England)

I don't think anybody here has forgotten what happened last year, where we had to deal with the largest oil spill in [our] history.

In the long run — as happened in the world's worst oil spill, in the Persian Gulf during the war — ecosystems will heal and even thrive.

The deep - sea exploitation of oil and gas has been going on for a few decades now, and we've seen what can happen when things go wrong a few years ago in the Gulf of Mexico with the massive oil spill that took place after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig...

The authors believe their findings indicate that spill - recovery crews should try to physically contain oil spills that happen near coral or allow them to degrade naturally.

But it's absolutely essential that going forward we put in place every necessary safeguard and protection so that a tragedy like this oil spill does not happen again.

You'd have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking our oil addiction.

One lesson of the Gulf oil spill that is an ominous warning about climate change is that the Deepwater Horizon disaster demonstrates that what are often initially believed to be low probability, in fact unforeseeable, catastrophic impacts do happen.

He argued that we need to understand there is a category of technological error - an oil spill is a good example - that is best dealt with by never letting it happen in the first place.

It's not an area where we want to find out what happens if there's an oil spill,» Zukunft said.

The pipeline spill that flooded Mayflower, Ark., with up to 290,000 gallons of tar - sands oil in March was an accident that had been waiting to happen — for more than 60 years.

Spills of Canadian oil into waterways, which happened when two oil trains derailed in Gogama, Ontario, should have a much smaller environmental impact.

We just got a glimmer of hope with the BP oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped — even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected — but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen

Well, a lot's happened this week in the ongoing, excruciating - to - watch saga of the BP Gulf spill — we saw oil continue to lap up on miles of coastline, hundreds of birds put in danger, estimates of the spill's size double, BP's stock plummet (causing

If the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico never happened, William Allen «Rookie» Kruse might still be alive.

We just got a glimmer of hope with the BP oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped — even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected — but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen after three months of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.

It's really pretty hard to put a positive spin on what's happening down in the Gulf of Mexico, or really even see a good outcome, but in an interesting interview on the potential effects of the spill over at OnEarth fisheries expert Daniel Pauly from the University of British Columbia points out one small thing that may make cleaning up this spill easier than the iconic Exxon Valdez: WATCH VIDEO: Planet 100 - How to Clean An Oil Sspill over at OnEarth fisheries expert Daniel Pauly from the University of British Columbia points out one small thing that may make cleaning up this spill easier than the iconic Exxon Valdez: WATCH VIDEO: Planet 100 - How to Clean An Oil Sspill easier than the iconic Exxon Valdez: WATCH VIDEO: Planet 100 - How to Clean An Oil SpillSpill?

Well, a lot's happened this week in the ongoing, excruciating - to - watch saga of the BP Gulf spill — we saw oil continue to lap up on miles of coastline, hundreds of birds put in danger, estimates of the spill's size double, BP's stock plummet (causing some to float the word «bankruptcy»), we saw BP buy search terms like «oil spill» online to inform the public... about BP stock value, and we saw much more anger, chaos, and confusion.

For those of you running for your calculators, yes it's a small fraction of one percent of the oil initially spilled, but the researchers say their findings have implications for future oil spill cleanup and that «considerable amounts of chemicals» harmful to wildlife remain: Two Layers of Gravel Keep Oil From Dispersing What's happening is the result of the composition of the beaches affectoil initially spilled, but the researchers say their findings have implications for future oil spill cleanup and that «considerable amounts of chemicals» harmful to wildlife remain: Two Layers of Gravel Keep Oil From Dispersing What's happening is the result of the composition of the beaches affectoil spill cleanup and that «considerable amounts of chemicals» harmful to wildlife remain: Two Layers of Gravel Keep Oil From Dispersing What's happening is the result of the composition of the beaches affectOil From Dispersing What's happening is the result of the composition of the beaches affected.

Citizen journalists, Jak and Lauren, reporting for Tar Sands Blockade, braved the severe weather Wednesday, which included hail, lighting and chance of tornados, to report on what was happening to the site of the oil spill.

It also should serve as proof that anyone claiming to say Lake Conway is not contaminated is either unaware of what happened here Wednesday night or is being intentionally creative with language to mislead the public about the damage this oil spill has caused.

Oil spills, whether minor leaks or major environmental disasters, are bound to happen.

It is terrible what happened with the oil spill!

For more information on the effects of last year's spill and to further consider what is happening in the Gulf today, watch this 4 minute video on the science of last year's spill, where one year after the largest oil spill in the history of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are trying to determine the long - term ecological effects.