Sentences with phrase «oil tankers running»

The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil along Alaskan shores.

When an oil tanker runs aground, the impact is immediately obvious: seabirds soaked in petroleum, sick marine mammals, and dead fish washed ashore by the bushel.

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Potential U.S. sanctions on sales of light crude to Venezuela's oil company PDVSA would hamper its already weak refining network while leaving at least one tanker in limbo, according to a source from the state - run firm and Thomson Reuters data.

The Trans Mountain pipeline forks at Abbotsford, with a spur running south to Cherry Point refineries in northwest Washington, where tankers already bring oil from Alaska.

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.

A week after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, chemist Jeff Short of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visited the site.

1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.

He sent me a link to an article he wrote for the then fledgling BBC News website back in 1999, a few years after the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground on the coast of Wales, spilling more than 72,000 tonnes of crude along a coastline that's a favourite for ramblers and nature enthusiasts, not to mention the fishing grounds.

Modern double hull oil tankers are not as susceptible to spills, but the many small ships (especially low budget, unlicensed ships) carrying goods of all types can and do run aground, causing smaller spills.

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.

As a result of a fuel tanker grounding and attendant oil spill in 2001, a consortium of energy companies from the G7, calling themselves e7 (created to bring renewable energy to developing nations), funded the installation of three wind turbines on San Cristobal, an island in the Galapagos archipelago, to minimize the amount of fuel that had to be delivered to run the generators.

The tanker Exxon Valdez, captained by the now infamous Joseph Hazelwood, ran aground on Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, spilling more than 10.8 million US gallons (40.9 million liters) of crude oil into the sensitive natural coastline.