Sentences with phrase «tanker exxon»

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.

1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.

More than five years after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef off the coast of Alaska, the people who claim they were harmed by the massive oil spill are finally having their day — or rather, their months — in court.

A week after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, chemist Jeff Short of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visited the site.

Not exact matches

• Kinder Morgan plans to dredge Second Narrows channel to allow larger Suezmax tankers that can carry 1 million barrels of crude — four times as much as spilled from the Exxon Valdez.

Today is, not coincidentally, the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and on the heels of the ad came an announcement from the Coastal First Nations (an alliance of nine nations from the central coast to Haida Gwaii) declaring that»... in upholding our ancestral laws, rights and responsibilities... oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

«We've seen the data, the technology simply doesn't exist to recover diluted bitumen from our environment if one of these tankers, which are many times larger than the Exxon Valdez, runs aground or sinks.»

One more thing Horgan and Weaver can do is require a DOUBLE HULLED PIPELINE... we required double hulled tankers after the Exxon Valdez disaster.

The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil along Alaskan shores.

Short was working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker dumped 42 million liters of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska, and he led much of the research into its effects.

However, tens of thousands of leaky auto engines whizzing over already polluted urban environments can't compare with the damage done to a pristine environment by a single oil tanker such as the Exxon Valdez, which spilled 10 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.

She points out what happened after the Exxon Valdez tragedy, where an oil tanker caused a major oil spill along the coast of Alaska in 1989.

Exxon budgeted more than $ 1 million over three years for the tanker project to measure how quickly the oceans were taking in CO2.

• All - new platform, suspension and exterior design • An unparalleled combination of performance and luxury at the time • Ruptured Exxon Valdez oil tanker ship dumps over 10 million gallons of crude oil off the coast of Alaska in 1989

After the Exxon Valdez spill, all sorts of maritime regulations were instituted requiring all new tankers to be double hull after 2006 because they are less likely to spill oil.

A mock board game was distributed in 1969 by Humble Oil (later part of Exxon) to promote the passage of an ice - breaking tanker, the USS Manhattan, through the Northwest Passage.

That means that slowly emerging problems — think sprawl, think the millions of gas - station drips that add up to 1.5 Exxon Valdez tankers a year, and definitely think global warming — often fail to get the space that they probably deserve.

The network's latest advocacy for fossil fuels comes on the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the most environmentally devastating oil tanker spill in American history.

Letter from Roger W. Cohen, Director of Exxon's Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences to Peter Kimon, Exxon International Tanker Division canceling work of the CO2 Greenhouse Project on tanker «s / s Esso Atlantic» dated July 14,Tanker Division canceling work of the CO2 Greenhouse Project on tanker «s / s Esso Atlantic» dated July 14,tanker «s / s Esso Atlantic» dated July 14, 1982.

Worse, what would Enbridge or their PR team say when the first oil tanker does an Exxon Valdez in Hecate Strait?

Werthamer worked at Exxon from 1978 to 1983, where he helped oversee the tanker research program.

But as Exxon knows through the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in which the oil tanker veered off course into a rocky reef while trying to avoid small icebergs in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, the presence of even a little ice makes navigation treacherous.

December 7, 1978 W.M. Cooper sends a memo to Edward David Jr. detailing the Exxon programs developed to measure CO2 uptake by the various levels of the ocean through equipment on tankers and drilling infrastructure.

Exxon's Richard Werthamer (right) and Edward Garvey (left) are aboard the company's Esso Atlantic tanker working on a project to measure the carbon dioxide levels in the ocean and atmosphere.

«They spent so much money and they were the only company that did this kind of research as far as I know,» Edward Garvey, who was a key researcher on Exxon's oil tanker project, said in a recent interview with InsideClimate News and Frontline.

Between 1979 and 1982, Exxon researchers sampled carbon dioxide levels aboard the company's Esso Atlantic tanker (shown here).

The slides detail Exxon's tanker program, which will sample air and the CO2 concentrations and sample the temperature of the ocean along the tanker routes.

«Oil - tanker transportation through the straits is not sustainable anymore,» Turkish Environment Minister Veysel Eroğlu said last week following a meeting between government officials and representatives of 20 energy companies, including Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, and BP.

He used Exxon's tanker records again in 2009, in an updated study that compiled 30 years of oceanic CO2 data from dozens of reports.

Takahashi used the Exxon tanker data — along with dozens of datasets from universities and other research institutions — in two studies published in 1990 and 2009.

The project he worked on — outfitting an ocean tanker to measure the ocean's absorption of carbon dioxide — was a crown jewel in Exxon's research program.