Sentences with phrase «when tanker»

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 United States Coast Guard is beginning to prepare for the time when tanker and other ship traffic up there expands.

This happened in 2001 when tanker rates which are normally $ 20,000 - $ 30,000 a day went to $ 80,000 a day.

When the tanker was finally brought onshore, only 200 liters of the heavy oil remained, according to Bangladeshi officials.

When the tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off France's Brittany coast in 1978, clean - up teams attempted to save the Ile Grande salt marsh by removing oiled sediments.

Not exact matches

Handling these substances — a chilly -320 °F when offloaded from tankers at medical and industrial facilities — is a very specialized skill.

The Sixers have blatantly tanked for high draft picks the last two seasons, and don't seem any closer to competing for a playoff spot than they did two year ago when master - tanker Sam Hinkie was hired as GM.

When Transportation Minister Lisa Raitt announced new regulations to phase out older rail tankers of the type that blew up at Lac Megantic last year, it wasn't a surprise for anyone familiar with the industrt play.

April 2018: When pipelines and tankers spill... The B.C. government -LSB-...]

Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for export on oil tankers.

For example, Overseas Shipholding Group (equity ticker OSG) is a deeply junk rated oil tanker company that has seen its bonds drop from trading around par (par means 100 cents on the dollar when comparing the market price to the face amount of the bonds) to distressed levels between 60 and 70 cents on the dollar.

Uncle Vladimir, the former tanker, was watching the Blanks» bags when their train suddenly began to leave.

The Administrative Manager of the factory explained that three workers were in the process of cleaning an empty oil tanker when the explosion occurred.

According to eye witnesses, the tanker driver was negotiating the DMGS roundabout when it s fell with a loud thud, causing explosion immediately and spreading fire to several buildings, offices and shops within the area.

However, the Ghana Tanker Drivers Association has vowed not to pay the levy, announcing that members of the Association will embark on a demonstration when implementation starts.

So it beggars belief that at a time when there are more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builders.

Cuomo has ordered flags on state government buildings to fly at half - staff Tuesday in honor of 10 Navy sailors, including a New York native, who were killed when the destroyer USS John McCain was involved in a collision with an oil tanker Aug. 21.

«When they call for tankers we send a support pumper [truck] with it,» he said.

Cameron conceded that mistakes were made when ministers advised motorists before Easter to top up fuel tanks amid a threatened strike by tanker drivers, causing long queues at petrol stations.

A least 13 persons died on July 28, when a bus and a petrol tanker collided at the Felele area of Lokoja, Kogi State.

On February 6, this year, eight people lost their lives at Onigari village, Ogun State, on the Lagos - Ibadan Expressway, when an articulated truck hit a loaded petrol tanker, resulting in a fire.

Environmentalists were stunned this summer when they learned that Iowa Pacific Holdings, which leases / owns the railroad line from Saratoga to Tahawus, was considering storing empty oil tankers along an unused section of the tracks in Essex and Hamilton Counties.

When the Air Force needs to fly their fuel - hungry fighter jets across oceans and continents without landing, they rely on flying gas stations like the KC - 10 Extender tanker to keep them aloft.

Some sources of pollution, such as nuclear power plants or oil tankers, can produce widespread and potentially hazardous releases when accidents occur.

When an oil tanker runs aground, the impact is immediately obvious: seabirds soaked in petroleum, sick marine mammals, and dead fish washed ashore by the bushel.

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.

When spills from tankers do happen, an array of cleanup and remediation techniques, along with specialized technology come to the fore, both to tackle the mess and save the wildlife caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Healy was on its way home to Seattle from its final scientific cruise of 2011 when it was diverted to cut a path through the Bering Sea ice for a Russian fuel tanker.

Even when tow tractors, pushback tractors and tankers are moving at merely a snail's pace, collisions can always occur, be they with other vehicles or with aircraft.

The perfect score goes to the tanker level when you are the main man Snake (whoot!)

When Bernie and his crew of three head out to try and save the tankers crew of over thirty souls, their lifeboat has to get past what they call the «Bar.»

When a pair of oil tankers are battered in a 1952 storm, Bernie and his team concentrate on how to reach them.

When an oil tanker shears in half during a nor» easter off a New England coast in 1952, Bernie Webber (played by Chris Pine) and his small crew decide to brave the storm and go rescue the men abandoned on the tanker.

The Craig Gillespie - directed pic «chronicles the massive rescue mission that's launched when a pair of oil tankers split in two off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952.»

Also, unlike some roomy beasts, the Impala never feels like an oil tanker when you're driving it (or parking it... or backing it up).

You probably know we earned our reputation when one of our tankers, the Indies Unlimited Valdez, carrying a load of snark - enhanced truth, sprang a leak and coated random penguins with ugly, sticky facts.

When such media driven tankers control the territory, an uprising is inevitable.

When it goes to zero revenue, all these guys who own the single hull tankers get jittery; they can sell these tankers to the ship breakers and get a few million dollars instantly.

When a barge dangerously laden with logging equipment, including a tanker truck of diesel fuel, spilled its load in the heart of the world's best known orca habitat — the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight — last August 20th, whale lovers were outraged, environmentalists dismayed, the public alerted, and even the oil industry took note.

Physics in the game will literally spazz out, when you run into a tanker it will cause a huge explosion as you headbutt into it, and if you lick an object or person in time you'll take them along for the ride, all in distorted glory.

It may take a long time to change the course of the Microsoft / Xbox oil tanker — and even when the games do arrive, they will probably be less polished than the PS4 equivalents because Microsoft keeps moving the target.

In 1969 - 70 (when a spillage from the oil tanker Torrey Canyon threatened the Cornish coast) she told Mullins:

According to Friends of the Earth, «The bunker fuel spills by the Hanjin container ship that hit a bridge in San Francisco Bay on Nov. 7 and the Russian oil tanker that broke in half during a storm in the Black Sea on Nov. 11 call attention to the harm caused by bunker fuel when it is spilled.

You know it's over when a boatload of global warming alarmist schoolteachers have to be rescued off Antarctica by an oil tanker.

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

``... I remember thinking how ironic it was when Greenpeace started using gasoline - powered boats to block oil tankers, or when people drove to protests against oil drilling...» - Interior Secretary and former petroleum engineer Sally Jewell

Still, anyone else out there looking forward to the day when we can do without gigantic oil - filled tankers traversing the seas, occasionally spewing their load over marine life?

A massive oil spill occurred in Texas on Sunday when an oil tanker collided with two -LRB-!)

Some of the excess milk can be donated, as was done by the Michigan Milk Producers Association that gave 83,000 gallons of extra milk to a local food bank; but transportation continues to be a problem when there's no spare capacity in any tankers.

Companies that operate tanker trucks that transport hazardous materials should be held liable for any of the following when it results from the improper storage or transport of toxic cargo: