Sentences with phrase «scale oil spills»

Lets hope it turns out to work well on large scale oil spills.

Not exact matches

Clean Harbors is the North American leader in providing response services for environmental emergencies of any scale on land or water — from the cleanup and removal of a single mercury bottle to a large - scale multiphase containment and cleanup of a coastal oil spill.

Eventually, they hope the technology can be applied to manufacture materials in large scale to accommodate massive oil spills in the ocean.

The layered approach helps the coating components bind and function better, and the more durable the coating, the more affordable it is to scale up for major oil spills.

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.

As investigators with the commission state: «The spill presented an opportunity for state and parish officials to facilitate construction of a large - scale, temporary oil spill response measure whose purpose might, they believed, «pivot» to permanent restoration of Louisiana's barrier islands - with BP footing the bill.»

«Disastrous events like this oil spill can easily tip the scale,» Mansur says, especially by threatening top predators such as the Sundarbans tigers, crocodiles, and dolphins.

«Not only do large - scale events and major oil spills affect the health of marine wildlife, our everyday actions also impact the bigger picture.

While obviously not on the same scale as other notorious spills in recent memory, any oil spill is still significant, with detrimental effects on wildlife and plants.

In 2002, the Alaska Pipeline withstood a 7.9 Richter scale earthquake without rupturing or spilling any oil.

But the EIS — full of detailed discussion of exactly how many times it's acceptable for the new pipeline to spill its freight of acidic bitumen from Alberta, or how much natural gas it will take to heat the oil out of the ground — does not even mention the climate change that would result from helping ramp up the exploitation of this Saudi - scale ocean of carbon.

The scaled - back bill, which is far weaker than the climate and energy bill passed by the House last year, includes offshore drilling reforms, among them the removal of the $ 75 million liability cap for oil companies when it comes to oil spills.

What's more, we have tools to clean up oil spills, so we actually can clean them up (at least to a certain degree) when we set out to do so — as of now, solutions that can clean up carbon spills from the air are just beginning to reach commercial scale.

But most importantly, the scale of damages from climate change are likely to dwarf the economic and environmental costs of oil spills.

A worst - case oil spill threatens to disrupt the dynamics of the food - web in Burrard Inlet and could lead to large - scale environmental catastrophe.