Sentences with phrase «spill response from»

We assembled another diverse team of scientists, this time including experts in oil spill response from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Robyn Conmy) and oil spill modelling from industry (Deborah French - McCay, RPS Ocean Science).

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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.

The premier might think everything is fine after today's announcement, but we're still a long, long way from the oil spill response capacity people in B.C. demand.

Isaac Katz, son of Jonathan Katz, the Washington University professor whose essay, «In Defense of Homophobia» got him booted from the government's oil spill team, has come out of the closet: «When I told my dad I was gay, his immediate response was, «No, you're not.»

Some of the appointment beingg protested against are: Senator Ayo Akinyelure — National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Akinyeye Akingbesote — Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Ropo Sesay — National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) all from Idanre local government.

Amid repeated criticism from the Democratic strategist and CNN contributor over the president's response to the BP oil spill, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Friday Carville doesn't «understand all of what we're doing.»

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At tests at a giant seawater tank in New Jersey called Ohmsett, the National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility, the Oleo Sponge successfully collected diesel and crude oil from both below and on the water surface.

This is a major improvement from just 4 per cent during the organisation's first oil spill response in 1971.

The goal was to use data collected from the spill to map out possible long - term environmental and economic consequences of the disaster, determine where research still needed to be done and determine how to allocate money for response and recovery efforts.

«From the perspective of the Commission staff, however, $ 220 million for a spill response measure that trapped not much more than 1,000 barrels of oil is not a compelling cost - benefit tradeoff,» it says.

BP's «top kill» effort has halted the flow of oil from the Mississippi Canyon 252 well, according to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, national incident commander for the oil spill response.

Josh Fox's new film explores community responses to climate change and pollution — from a blockade of a coal shipment in Australia to investigations of oil spills in Peru.

David Dickins, an engineer from San Diego who has spent 30 years studying how to clean up oil spills in icy waters, said that while the ice impeded the use of tools like booms that hold a slick in place, the ice also naturally contained the oil, giving response teams more time to act before environmental damage occurred.

Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.

At his April 10 press conference about the Mayflower spill response, AG McDaniel confirmed that Exxon had turned over 12,500 pages of documents to his office resulting from a subpoena related to Exxon's response to the March 29 Pegasus disaster.

But at SkyTruth we have acquired good images often enough to illustrate the enormity of the spill and inadequacy of our initial spill response efforts; provide the first estimate of the spill size and rate that made any sense; to identify oil making landfall along the Alabama coast before it was being acknowledged by officials; to show clear entrainment of the spill in the Loop Current while officials were actively denying it; and to detect small but chronic leaks from other damaged wells, raising the related issue of inadequate plugging and abandonment.

More to come including a leaky settling pond, an oil slick off Gulfport, and severe erosion resulting from ill - conceived oil spill response practices on Dauphin Island.

Secretary Salazar reached his decision after reviewing a report from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich and considering other information on the progress of offshore oil and gas safety reforms, the availability of spill response resources, and improved blowout containment capabilities.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy apologized Tuesday for a mine spill in Colorado that her agency caused last week and planned to travel to the area Wednesday, amid increasing criticism from lawmakers about the EPA's response.

The other study, published in 2016 by the U.S. - based National Academies of Sciences on the «environmental fate, effects and responses» of diluted - bitumen spills from pipelines, also cited the need for further study to address «diluted bitumen's behaviour in the environment under different conditions, its detection when submerged or sunken, and the best response strategies for mitigating the impacts of submerged and sunken oil.»

The Federal response to the BP oil spill is getting criticism from all sides, the latest being from some prominent oceanographers.

Members of a Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Team removes oil from a beach in Port Fourchon, La. — part of ongoing response efforts to minimize shoreline impacts from the Deepwater Horizon / BP oil spill, May 23, 2010.

So what can we expect from citizens in response to this massive oil spill?

Obama just wrapped his first address to the nation from the oval office, discussing the federal response to the BP Gulf spill and how the event relates to energy policy in general.

Opposition to the project has centred on concerns about climate change, as well as about spills on land (already happened) and water, toxic fumes from the marine terminal and tank farm, fire and leaks from the latter (with no response plan in place), and earthquakes affecting the tunneled pipeline section.

From United Airlines to Equifax to Target to Sony, even going back to the BP oil spill, in each case, the first days or weeks of the crisis were characterized by fumbled responses, statements that corrected prior statements, and falling back on legalisms and obfuscation.