Sentences with phrase «past oil spills»

Here are the thoughts of some scientists and chroniclers of this and past oil spills, including the Exxon Valdez incident in 1989:

You can read more on Rabalais's views of the present mess, and past oil spills, in a Ken Weiss post at the Los Angeles Times Greenspace blog.

Drawing on lessons from past oil spills, many scientists agree that ecosystems have a remarkable capacity to heal.

Not exact matches

A rash of corporate scandals over the past decade, from the sub-prime mortgage crisis to the BP oil spill, has produced a default skepticism, Jekielek notes.

The discount on Western Canadian oil production since the spill has hovered around US$ 24 a barrel, much higher than the US$ 13 spread for the past two years, and Scotiabank expects it to average US$ 21.6 a barrel for 2018.

The Health Department has taken just one action against an oil company in the past three years, citing Continental Resources for oil and brine spills that turned two streams into temporary toxic dumps.

As bad as it is, BP's Gulf oil spill dwindles compared with gushers of the past.

«While advances in science and technology and improved safety practices have significantly reduced the threat of oil spills in Canadian waters over the past few decades, much about the fate, environmental impacts and remediation of oil spills remain poorly understood,» said Kenneth Lee, the director of Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Perth, Western Australia and chair of the seven - member panel.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Office of Response and Restoration reports that oil spills in U.S. waters have risen again over the past decade, with 134 incidents in 2008 alone.

The Health Department has taken just one action against an oil company in the past three years, citing Continental Resources for oil and brine spills that turned two streams into temporary toxic dumps.

Sprint past a couple to draw their attention and lead them to an oil spill, light them up and be on your way.

This past weekend, Mekas also participated in Oil Kills Poets Spill at the New York Marble Cemetary.

The Tate has tolerated the group's performances in the past, including a naked man being doused in oil at Tate Britain, extracts from the court case against BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill whispered throughout their galleries and a public exorcism of the «evil spirit of BP».

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.

An oil spill in Borneo that began over the past weekend has now spread across an area greater than the city of Paris and is heading out to the open ocean, the Indonesian government said.

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.

«It's been hugely helpful in getting the Arctic nations to work together on things like the two agreements that were just adopted over the past two years: the search - and - rescue agreement, and the responding - to - oil - spills agreement,» she said.

Community - based advocates have achieved some exciting, noteworthy successes in the past few years opposing Keystone XL and tar sands, fracking, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf and Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.

Photo: BP Only Bad News on the Oil Spill Today After some good news in the past couple of days, BP is going back to what it has accustomed us to over the past few months: bad news.

I have to admit that I've been trying to think beyond the ongoing environmental horror - show of the BP oil spill and get past blame and anger with it all.

According to Eroğlu, 115,000 tons of oil has been spilled into its waters over the past 15 years.

That's a pretty rich statement coming from a guy who shills for a corporation that spent millions spreading disinformation about climate science, continues to deny and contest payments to victims of the Exxon Valdez spill, has been low - balling estimates of the Arkansas oil spill, and has spent the past week intimidating and blocking out the media from reporting the truth at their spill in Arkansas.

In the past week, his administration has also called on BP to make more information on the spill available to the public, and to find a less toxic alternative to the chemicals it's using to disperse the oil.

In «Collusion: Judicial Discretion vs. Judicial Deception — The Impending Meltdown of the United States Federal Judicial System,» released in late December, Donovan details the alleged collusion he witnessed firsthand while representing clients in In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig «Deepwater Horizon» in The Gulf of Mexico, or MDL 2179, over the past seven years.