Sentences with phrase «oil tankers off»

The new prime minister banned oil tankers off the northern coast of British Columbia just nine days after assuming office.

Set in 1952 the movie tells the story of a daring rescue by the Coast Guard of the crew on a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod during a...

«The Finest Hours,» based on the true story of the valiant 1952 Coast Guard rescue of a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Massachusetts, splits in two much like the wounded vessel at its heart.

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Wrong on both counts, it seems, because Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shrugged off a 35 - year practice to ban oil tankers plying B.C.'s inside passage.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's political future depends on landing a pipeline to carry heavy oil from the Alberta oil sands to tankers off the B.C. coast, and she is adamant a proposal by Kinder Morgan to expand its existing pipeline must proceed.

The Finest Hours is a true story adventure film about a daring rescue off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952 that happened after a massive storm destroyed two oil tankers.

One illustration of the present government's lack of joined up thinking on preventing terrorism is the large number of oil tankers that for the last year have been anchoring off the East Anglian coast as a result of a series of government decisions or more recently lack of decisions about them.

After several denials by the Defence Headquarters that a recently hijacked oil tanker, MT Leon Dias was not abducted by alleged pro-Biafra militants and in Nigerian waters, the Defence Headquarters has warned that any group of persons or interests who indulge in hijacking or piracy against any merchant vessel off the coast of Nigeria would be treated as criminals and saboteurs.

When the tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off France's Brittany coast in 1978, clean - up teams attempted to save the Ile Grande salt marsh by removing oiled sediments.

The thermal conversion plant turns turkey offal into low - sulfur oil that is carted off by three tanker trucks daily.

Then, on November 13, 2002, the hull of the Prestige oil tanker broke in half off the north - western coast of Spain, releasing 63,000 tonnes of oil.

In previous research he found that Vibrio became the dominant type of marine bacteria off the south - eastern US as oil tanker traffic increased after the 1970s.

More than five years after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef off the coast of Alaska, the people who claim they were harmed by the massive oil spill are finally having their day — or rather, their months — in court.

The study, which appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included 501 fishermen who helped clean up spilled oil after the tanker Prestige sank off the coast of Spain in November 2002.

Geeks of Doom was on hand for the «Pacific Rim» panel at which Guillermo Del Toro showed off a brand new trailer in which, «a 25 - story high Jaeger robot [dragged] an oil tanker behind it through the streets of Hong Kong, to use as a bat against a Kaiju, followed by a two - fist slap to the Kaiju's head.»

In February 1952, an oil tanker was literally ripped in two by a winter storm off the coast of Boston, prompting the Coast Guard to deploy a sizeable team of their best to search for survivors.

February of 1952 brought about an epic winter storm off the coast of Cape Cod, the Coast Guard made one of history's bravest attempts at rescuing a split in half oil tanker (one of two ships demolished that evening).

Adapted from Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman's bestselling 2009 book by the trio of screenwriters who penned the foundation of David O. Russell's The Fighter, Finest Hours tells the story of oil tankers needing rescue off the coast of New England during a 1952 nor'easter.

In fact, the roiling waters off Cape Cod were so severe that a couple of oil tankers totally split in half.

In 1952, Bernie and a small crew braved brutal elements off the coast of Cape Cod to search for a stranded oil tanker that had been broken in half by the storm.

The SS Pendleton was an oil tanker caught in the middle of a huge storm off the coast of Cape Cod.

While necessarily simplifying (and, at times, unnecessarily Hollywood - izing) the true story, the film adheres to the basic facts: in 1952, with a nor» easter battering the seas off Cape Cod, two oil tankers break in two more or less simultaneously, dividing the Coast Guard's resources in mounting rescue efforts.

When an oil tanker shears in half during a nor» easter off a New England coast in 1952, Bernie Webber (played by Chris Pine) and his small crew decide to brave the storm and go rescue the men abandoned on the tanker.

The Craig Gillespie - directed pic «chronicles the massive rescue mission that's launched when a pair of oil tankers split in two off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952.»

• All - new platform, suspension and exterior design • An unparalleled combination of performance and luxury at the time • Ruptured Exxon Valdez oil tanker ship dumps over 10 million gallons of crude oil off the coast of Alaska in 1989

Arno Kopecky spent months sailing along a proposed oil tanker route off British Columbia.

Other highlights you can see there include a lifeboat off the Texaco Maine oil tanker, plus rusting, abandoned plant machinery and a collection of dilapidated speedboats.

Dickenson Bay is a lovely spot on the coast for water sports, family - friendly activities and beach bars, while at D - Boat, you can enjoy the unique experience of an oil tanker - turned - water - park, just off Maiden Island.

This is an interesting experiment, similar to the Prestige tanker that sunk off Spain in deep water and leaked oil for awhile....

1:19 p.m. Updated An inventive neighbor, Sandy Saunders, just proposed a simple stopgap: Use an off - the - shelf large dome - like fabric structure over the seafloor zone with the leaks, with a hose to pump the accumulating buoyant oil to tankers.

You know it's over when a boatload of global warming alarmist schoolteachers have to be rescued off Antarctica by an oil tanker.

In April 2014, Russia's Arctic oil drilling platform Prirazlomnaya, pictured here, loaded a tanker with the world's first major shipment of oil from above the Arctic Circle: 490,000 gallons from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Barents Sea, 38 miles off Russia's northwestern coast.

IMO took over responsibility for this treaty in 1959, but it was not until 1967, when the tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the coast of the United Kingdom and spilled more than 120,000 tons of oil into the sea, that the shipping world realized just how serious the pollution threat was.

But as Exxon knows through the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in which the oil tanker veered off course into a rocky reef while trying to avoid small icebergs in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, the presence of even a little ice makes navigation treacherous.

For me Wind Power is as ridiculous as putting sails on 300.000 ton Super Tankers to off - set 4 % bunker oil by WIND Power.

-- LMAA Arbitrations as sole counsel: Two recent LMAA arbitrations as sole counsel concerning the time chartering of oil tankers and issues relating to tank cleaning, vessel condition, speed and performance, the operation of off - hire clauses and repudiatory breach.

U.S. judge signs order telling U.S. Marshals Service to seize cargo of oil aboard tanker off Texas coast, Reuters

If NGP's project is approved, approximately 225 oil and condensate - laden tankers will travel the waters off the coast of B.C. every year and inland to Kitimat via the Douglas Channel.

If built, the Trans Mountain expansion would dramatically increase oil tanker traffic off of the coast of British Columbia.