Sentences with phrase «who clean up oil spills»

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That's the advice of coastal ecologists and geologists to those who are planning the clean - up of the Gulf ecosystems threatened by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The study, which appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included 501 fishermen who helped clean up spilled oil after the tanker Prestige sank off the coast of Spain in November 2002.

However, it's not clear whether the respiratory problems reported by the workers in the study are likely to crop up in the 50,000 people who have helped clean up the spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

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.

The City argues that the MOE should have imposed those cleanup costs on the polluters, meaning either those who caused the spill, or were negligent in cleaning it up, or the province itself for its lax regulation of the oil tank and / or of the original polluter's cleanup.

There is no way to know how much it will cost,» said Harry Wruck, a lawyer at Ecojustice in Vancouver who has vast experience in oil - spill clean - up work.

More recent cases include the firm's representation of thousands of clean - up workers and Gulf Coast residents who were physically or financially harmed by BP Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histoOil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histooil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histooil spill in U.S. history.