Sentences with phrase «oil spills make»

During the Gulf Oil Spill we reminded readers that while massive oil spills make all the headlines in the United States, in Nigeria large spills are tragically commonplace (photo above)-- so much so that it is one of the major factors behind armed conflict in the Niger River delta.

But the fact that carbon spills present a much more difficult problem than oil spills makes it all the more urgent we stop making carbon spills and start developing and deploying solutions to clean up the spills of past decades.

Not exact matches

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

Make B.C.'s oil spill regulations strong.

Others have made the same point, and suggest that President Barack Obama may have exceeded his authority when he struck a deal for BP to cancel its dividends and set up a $ 20 - billion (U.S.) oil spill fund.

Make it as close to impossible as we can for an oil spill to occur, this how we may get everyone on - board to send the oil sands to market.

Because Thus saith Obama: «If you drill for oil I will make sure you will obey me so much, that you won; t want to or be able to, oh but if you have a spill and your an American it's your fault not mine.

I've tried out so many variations — with and without yoghurt, made with just milk, no oil / no butter... Anyways, here I am and boy am I glad I'm finally spilling the beans.

That made the spill one of the 20 largest onshore oil or petroleum product spills since 2010.

66 actions have been implemented to strengthen standards, regulations and procedures to make the transport of crude oil by rail and water in New York safer, and to improve spill preparedness and response.

Many of the sub's 4,664 dives have made history: Alvin surveyed Titanic's wreckage in 1986, the first known hydrothermal vents in the 1970s, and the BP oil spill in 2010.

«New smart coating could make oil - spill cleanup faster and more efficient.»

BP, the global oil giant responsible for the fast - spreading spill in the Gulf of Mexico that will soon make landfall, is no stranger to major accidents.

For the first time, a polarising infrared camera — never before used on Earth — has been made small and light enough to detect concealed oil spills

That would make BP's Gulf spill already worse than the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which discharged roughly 11 million gallons of oil off Alaska.

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

If the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, Carol Browner, are to be believed, those microbes have made quick work of the spill, consuming as much as 50 percent of the remaining oil already.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Last December, lawyers for the company responsible for the biggest oil spill in U.S. history subpoenaed information from WHOI on flow - rate measurements its scientists had made of the leaking well.

«As the situation in the Gulf of Mexico has made abundantly clear, once the oil spills it is a very expensive exercise to clean it up,» says Rean Gilbert.

The addition of solar power could make the Galapagos nearly energy independent by 2015 — and free from any further oil spills.

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.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

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.

In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists from Drexel University and Deakin University, in Australia, have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron nitride nanosheet, that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents — a trait that could make it an important technology for quickly mitigating these costly accidents.

In what is perhaps the worst man - made environmental disaster in American history, the BP spill ultimately spewed 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before the well was sealed.

Man - made microbes that manufacture pharmaceuticals, crank out cheap biofuels, mop up pollutants and oil spills or invade and destroy cancer cells may be just a decade or two away.

None of these methods can prevent oil spills, but they've helped make cleanups more efficient and predictable and helped prevent catastrophes in Alaska, off the coast of Oregon, and elsewhere.

Even in the absence of oil and gas exploration, the Arctic's rapidly intensifying traffic — whether from barges, research ships, oil tankers, or passenger cruises — makes oil spills increasingly likely.

Genetically modified organisms show promise for everything from making vaccines to cleaning up oil spills.

That feature makes them particularly vulnerable to oil spills, which can compromise their fur's insulating effect.

Moreover, the oil from the Prestige was spilled on the surface and therefore may have had a different makeup than the oil from the Deepwater Horizon well, which ascended through almost a mile of water before it could make human contact, says Arch (Chip) Carson, MD, a professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Texas at Houston School of Public Health.

This avoids spilling and making a mess from the oil.

Cage plays Colin Pryce (making the film's tagline — «Power always comes at a price» — that much funnier), a Louisiana politician who comes to national attention after an impassioned speech to Congress about the devastating impact of the BP oil spill on local communities.

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?

«We're not really making any money right now,» he says, explaining that the BP oil spill ran his catch down to about 600 shrimp per day, from an early season average of 2000.

In the case of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, for example, the Supreme Court didn't make a final ruling until 2008, 19 years after the spill.

So when shopping time comes, I make a quick check to be sure that each company on my watch list is still desirable — meaning no recent disasters that could threaten future dividends (like an oil spill).

When BP engaged with investors after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, it made clear that its efforts were dedicated to costs — lowering the costs of litigation, lowering the costs of the judgments against it, and lowering the costs of its debt burden as it sought to lower interest expenses by turning unsecured debt into secured debt.

Well, BP was required to give the US Gulf states money to make up for the hits to tourism from the oil spill, right?

Threats made by water pollution, plastics and debris in the ocean, gill net entanglement, oil spills, overharvesting of fisheries, toxins, and pesticides affect even isolated areas like Point Bennett.

These pieces offer a way of making sense of the world following disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.

Ballengée's images of marine life from the Gulf of Mexico, the specimens first cleared to make them translucent and then colorfully stained, are effervescent reflections of the aftermath of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Benglis, like Pollock, invented a type of structureless painting; she made hers by spilling latex onto the floor, gushing it, consciously referencing the «toxic oil slicks on the Bayou.»

«Five years in the making, Water is at once Burtynsky's most detailed and expansive project to date, with images of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, step wells in India, dam construction in China, aquaculture, farming, and pivot irrigation systems,» said Susan M. Taylor, Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

So why don't all companies who buy or make a huge range of products from cardboard, paper, plywood sheets to oil spill powder, insist on kenaf, how many trees would we save alone?

The fleeing Iraqi troops didn't just burn oil; they also opened valves sending some 8 million barrels of crude into the Persian Gulf, making that incident the biggest oil spill in history (so far).

Sirota goes on to make an important point that while a spill of 5,000 gallons of oil is very small compared to the volume of oil that spilled during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the problem is that the oil and gas spilled in Colorado is contaminating fresh water, which is already depleted due to drought.

There, students can find a section called «Running on Oil» and read a page that touts the industry's environmental track record — citing improvements mostly attributable to laws that the companies fought tooth and nail, by the way — but makes only vague references to spills or pollution.