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Since the Deepwater Horizon incident, we've seen an increased focus on developing new ways to contain and clean up oil
spills more efficiently.
reminds us, friendly bacteria can devour oil
spills more quickly than any expensive, man - made chemical clean up operation.
There are many technologies that have been developed to clean up
spills more effectively, but the first hurdle is quick and accurate detection of chemical pollutants in the ocean.
They're also fairly lightweight, making
spills more likely.
Developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the device designed to burn off oil
spills more completely.
Because they are nowhere near forking done... That's why????? Jeez, now he's asking for likes to
spill more bull??? Pick a clue, why don't you!
Nobody has
spilled more blood for the cause and few have worn the shirt with greater pride and when Pep acknowledges his legendary status at the Club, it's high praise indeed, though thoroughly merited.
Nevertheless, with news that Lyon might be interested in bringing him aboard in January, we felt compelled to
spill more digital ink towards our dear Manu.
Sen. Carl Marcellino (R - Syosset) said constructing a bridge from Oyster Bay to the mainland would destroy thousands of homes and businesses,
spill more traffic onto Long Island roads, and endanger Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge, whose waters sparkled in the background as Marcellino spoke.
Tardigrades are
spilling more of the secrets about their seeming invincibility.
The collapse of several small ice shelves has caused glaciers to accelerate two - to ninefold and
spill more ice into the ocean, raising the sea level.
On July 1 an ExxonMobil pipeline burst beneath the Yellowstone River in Montana,
spilling more than 40,000 gallons of oil into the waterway before responders could seal the leak.
«They're also more mobile there and can escape a possible oil
spill more easily.
Can't wait to
spill more!
Microsoft
spilled more details regarding the Xbox One X this week at Gamescom.
In a wide ranging interview with US Gamer, Animal Crossing Director Aya Kyogoku has
spilled some more beans on the upcoming Animal Crossing spin - offs releasing later this year.
Jeep is tight lipped about
spilling more details until the Detroit show, but we'll bet it will still offer a standard 2.4 - liter inline - four - cylinder engine that delivers 184 hp and 171 lb - ft of torque.
As Ubisoft began to
spill more and more details about its always - online multiplayer shooter over the past few months, gamers quickly realized they had heard much of the same talk before.
The Japanese website opened a few days ago,
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The Japanese website opened a few days ago,
spilling some more details on the new battle mode.
As the Summer release of Splatoon 2 is coming closer, the developers are
spilling more and more details.
After a 41 - year - old pipeline owned by Enbridge Inc.
spilled more than a million gallons of dilbit into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010, Enbridge filed for permission to restart the line 13 days later.
He sent me a link to an article he wrote for the then fledgling BBC News website back in 1999, a few years after the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground on the coast of Wales,
spilling more than 72,000 tonnes of crude along a coastline that's a favourite for ramblers and nature enthusiasts, not to mention the fishing grounds.
IMO took over responsibility for this treaty in 1959, but it was not until 1967, when the tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the coast of the United Kingdom and
spilled more than 120,000 tons of oil into the sea, that the shipping world realized just how serious the pollution threat was.
The hidden, long - term effects of the 2010 pipeline accident that
spilled more than a million gallons of heavy Canadian crude oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River became public last week when the EPA revealed that large amounts of oil are still accumulating in three areas of the river.
He voted to support more dangerous drilling off our beaches, threatening our economy and making disasters like the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil
spill more likely.
The AGM comes less than two weeks after Shell
spilled more than 88,000 gallons of oil from a group of four underwater oil wells located some 97 miles south of Port Fourchon in Louisiana and creating a 13 mile - wide slick on the water's surface.
The pipeline
spilled more than one million gallons of toxic tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River, see in the photo below (click photo to enlarge).
The tanker Exxon Valdez, captained by the now infamous Joseph Hazelwood, ran aground on Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef,
spilling more than 10.8 million US gallons (40.9 million liters) of crude oil into the sensitive natural coastline.
There's good reason to be concerned about potential leaks, since Enbridge is responsible for
spilling more than 1 million gallons of tar sands oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River, in what became the worst tar sands leak in US history.
Calgary, Alberta - based Enbridge is the same company that
spilled more than 1 million gallons of thick, sticky tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan in 2010.
Conservationists now have an apparent ally in the White House, so let's tell him to slow down and get those forest protections in place before the carbon - conscious
spill any more blood.
Most recently, two freight trains sideswiped each other and derailed at a railway crossing in Toronto's midtown,
spilling more than 1,000 litres of fuel.
Not exact matches
The public outcry from an environmental disaster such as an oil
spill or violating the pay laws of your employees will cost your business much
more than the expenses of being socially responsible.
Teens from low - income families are
more likely to report negative digital experiences such as cyber bullying, and social media experiences that
spill over to create problems at school and with peers.
The State Department estimates that the surge of passport renewals that will be
spilling over into 2018 and 2019 — combined with other new passport applications — will push the number of passports issued this year to
more than 21 million, after
more than 20 million applications in 2017.
The fights became
more vicious,
spilling into the courts.
I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP
spill: 1) increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and
more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.
The BP
spill led to
more regulation (although not as much new in the U.S. as some would like) and less investment in the U.S. offshore oil industry than would have otherwise been the case, and these changes were likely compensated for with increased investment elsewhere.
News
spilled out today that a marketing rep for the fast food chain edited an entry for the Whopper on Wikipedia so it reads
more like an ad.
Both pipelines face two forms of opposition: widely dispersed environmentalists worried about climate change, and stakeholders along the route
more concerned about oil
spills.
Sometimes, the harm is overt, like in the case of BP's oil
spill, but often it's
more subtle, like when employees invest hope and time in a project that fails.
The pipeline's owners, Plains Midstream Canada, said that loose soil and a bad weld were to blame for the
spill, but now that the company has applied to reopen the pipe, scientists are looking for
more information.
Adding to their fury is the
spill from the Keystone pipeline just last week, which saw
more than 200,000 barrels of oil
spill from the pipeline in South Dakota, shuttering a large section of the conduit for days.
Spills from trains and trucks are admittedly easier to detect than a silent leak from a tube buried underground, but they're also much
more frequent.
It's a place where people will be able to improve and be better and stronger and
more effective, and the effect of that
spills over from endurance sports to impact other aspects of people's lives... so in many ways it also feels like a mission of doing good.
«You're going to have
spills when you have
more activity,» Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, told a reporter with the investigative journalism organization Pro Publica, which documented
more than 1,000 accidental oil
spills in North Dakota in 2011.
The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is
more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a
spill.
More than 800 oil
spills happened in the mid-Atlantic region during the same time period, according to a 1973 Coast Guard survey.