Past oil disasters have shown that only 15 to 25 percent of the oil can be effectively removed from the marine environments.
Not exact matches
And while his stance has certainly mellowed with the years - he apologized for his
past comments and joined with churches in 2008 to fight malaria - his suggestion that God may have had a hand in the
oil disaster that killed 11 and is threatening the Gulf Coast may take some by surprise.
Between 9m and 13m barrels of
oil have been spilt in the delta area during the
past 50 years — that is an Exxon Valdez
disaster every 12 months for the
past 50 years.
In the
past weeks since the start of the Deepwater Horizon
disaster I've gotten asked on countless occasions how long it's going to take to clean up all the leaking
oil.
...
Oil Saves New England... During the coldest days this
past January, the New England grid was on the brink of
disaster, and only pre-planning by ISO - NE, with emergency actions by the Coast Guard and luck kept the lights on.