Sentences with phrase «worst oil disaster»

So I'm glad that the leak might finally be stopped — but assessing and cleaning up the worst oil disaster in US history is another matter altogether.

The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, marked the beginning of the worst oil disaster in American history.

The BP oil spill is already infamous as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history.

The claim is that one of the country's worst oil disasters had a devastating impact on the seaweed crops of thousands of Indonesian seaweed farmers, virtually destroying their livelihoods.

Not exact matches

JUNE 2012: In a series of reports, Tyee's Nikiforuk details U.S. investigators» damning account of how cultural and procedural failures at Enbridge enabled the Kalamazoo spill to become North America's worst inland oil disaster.

In fact, the company has found itself at the center of several of the nation's worst oil and gas — related disasters in the last five years.

That would make BP's Gulf spill already worse than the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which discharged roughly 11 million gallons of oil off Alaska.

In what is perhaps the worst man - made environmental disaster in American history, the BP spill ultimately spewed 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before the well was sealed.

Directed by Peter Berg, the film is a dramatization of the 2010 disaster in which the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes, thus creating the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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The oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico is considered one of the worst oil spill disasters in history.

A manmade disaster was made even worse by nature Wednesday night, as a severe thunderstorm hit Mayflower, Arkansas spreading the Exxon Mobil oil spill to the yards of homes along the cove and the main body of Lake Conway.

The report, entitled Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

Over the last two months the U.S. Congress has been engaged in a great operatic drama over what many have called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history: the BP Gulf oil spill.

Additionally, the recent launch of the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Prize Challenge is inspiring entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists all over the world to develop innovative, rapidly deployable and highly efficient methods of cleaning up the worst environmental disaster in US history.

I've been wondering recently whether we'll see the worst of the BP gulf oil spill at all; whether the combined use of toxic chemical dispersants and media corralling would prevent the public from ever fully grasping the extent of the disaster.

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This legislation seems like a no - brainer: A bill that takes steps to prevent another such disaster, in the wake of the worst oil spill in the history of both the Gulf and the United States.

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Oil Spill in Black Sea Strait Could Be Region's Worst Environmental Disaster

The environmental effect was only the latest question prompted by the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon rig, which could shape up to be one of the worst U.S. offshore oil accidents in a generation.

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Ultimately, a situation could have been much worse amounted to very little; and I'm following up on this for pretty much one reason: To remind people that at any given moment there is some oil or gas drilling incident underway around the world that with just slightly changed circumstances would fall into the category of «energy disaster».

This includes insurance litigation and bad faith insurance; class actions; defective pharmaceutical and medical products; and environmental disasters, including BP oil spill claims for economic business losses.