Sentences with phrase «potential oil spills»

By not allowing offshore drilling, Belize also spared itself, and the neighboring countries of Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala from potential oil spills which would have been highly detrimental to the people, environment, and tourism of all four countries.

The manual is highly technical and outlines concerns specific to the industry, including accounting rules for oil reserves, how to review engineering reports, environmental issues such as potential oil spills and other risks.

Belize is home to hundreds of endangered animals, birds, and plants that thrive on the reef, all of which could be endangered by drilling practices and potential oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010 that took place in the nearby Gulf of Mexico.

Opponents of the pipeline fear potential oil spills along the B.C. coast and argue that Indigenous communities have not given their consent to the project, violating their constitutional rights.

The Security Project calls for the Defense Department to be much more involved in the region to match the militaries of other Arctic nations, and questions whether current policy frameworks, such as an Arctic strategy released by the Coast Guard this year, will be enough to prepare for potential oil spills, accidents and shipping traffic challenges.

Referencing the chanting of «Drill, Baby, Drill» on the campaign trail, Clinton feels that public sentiment has already voted to liberalize drilling but that Dems need to fight to ensure maximum environmental protections against potential oil spills that could damage precious seashores and marine life.

He told reporters that he hoped to impede the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline in order to protect communities and wildlife around British Columbia's Salish Sea from potential oil spills.

But a few days later — and lost in the hubbub following the announcement — Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) quietly issued a decision that must have given Trans Mountain executives a serious case of heartburn: the parent corporation of Kinder Morgan Canada, the Houston - based Kinder Morgan, Inc., would have to set aside a half - billion dollars to cover the costs of a potential oil spill.

This route would lessen a potential oil spill's impact to the critical waters of the Ogallala Aquifer.

Arctic conditions will make any potential oil spills nearly impossible to clean up, yet the beluga's fidelity to specific bodies of water may lead them to contaminated areas on a regular basis.