Sentences with phrase «scale disasters oil»

Unfortunately, we now have another example of the large scale disasters oil pipelines create.

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Canadian CEOs agreed that the BP disaster will lead to much tougher regulation of the entire North American oil extraction industry, with a mean of 6 on the 7 - point agreement scale.

If oil drops into the $ 20 - to - $ 30 range, he may soon be dealing with the consequences of an oil sands industry, his government's anointed engine of economic growth, suddenly becoming a commercial disaster on a scale that could be unrivaled in Canada's history.

Additional Riverkeeper maps showing how Lac - Megantic and Casselton - scale disasters would affect areas of the Hudson Valley are available in the Crude Oil Public Outreach section.

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

Pouring millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.

This is the take in which, despairing of other avenues to rapid, large - scale change, we look to peak oil to at least save us from the more extreme forms of climate disaster.