Sentences with phrase «when whale oil»
Usually this happens as part of an economic restructuring, often related to new technology, as when whale oil was abandoned as a lamp fuel, as when farmers mechanized operations, or for that matter when the transition to agriculture occurred.
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The city was one of America's leading whaling ports during 19th century, when whale oil was used for lighting and lubrication.
Not exact matches
However, when you consider that the Deep Horizon spill cost 42 Billion US to clean up and they only recovered 3 % of the oil while 250 million of birds, thousands of mammals, unknown millions of fish, and countless numbers of mammals, whales, turtles shellfish, and other marine life were killed.
Whale oil was a very clean oil, and when burned, it gave a very bright, white light.
The research traces its origins to one summer day in 2007, when a worker on a Maersk Oil platform in the Al Shaheen oil field off the coast of Qatar saw a surprising sight: a group of roughly 100 whale sharks feeding near the surfaOil platform in the Al Shaheen oil field off the coast of Qatar saw a surprising sight: a group of roughly 100 whale sharks feeding near the surfaoil field off the coast of Qatar saw a surprising sight: a group of roughly 100 whale sharks feeding near the surface.
When these whales became endangered in the 1970s, whaling was outlawed and jojoba oil became more popular.
It's pretty gross, especially when they're harvesting the whale body for the precious oil.
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.
«Rosneft is irresponsibly insisting on conducting this survey when they could easily postpone the survey until next year and hold it before the whales arrive,» said Aleksey Knizhnikov, Oil & Gas Environmental Policy officer, WWF.
No oil is imported and no fossil fuels are burned when you go whale watching with us.
When the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was negotiated more than 60 years ago, the main aim was to sustain whale stocks for their only economic value at the time — as a source of oil and meat.
It's been pointed out that fossil fuels came in just about when we had run out of whale oil, but the whales had been hunted to the brink of extinction when that happened.
It started as early as the 1800s when fisherman reduced the whale population to use the blubber for lamp oil.
Was there a peak oil moment when the whaling days were drying up?