There has been no pollution so far but a potential danger from an oil spill remains.
Environmental sensors dispersed over an oil spill, collecting data before dissolving into the earth.
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Authorities said United States Environmental Services, an oil spill response company, was collecting oily water.
Last month, an oil spill off the East Yorkshire coast affected dozens of seabirds, killing at least 15.
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An oil spill in this unique place would be catastrophic for the Arctic.
As the pitch noted: Transocean, a contract-driller, may have experienced an overblown concern for liabilities from an oil spill.
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What crews are dealing with is an oil spill from the explosion that continues to grow in the Gulf of Mexico.
Environmental campaigners say that a draft plan to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic ocean is inadequate and vague.
If an oil spill is small enough, animals can leave the area.
The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund ensures that there are sufficient resources available to pay for clean-up and damages associated with an oil spill.
Which it is of course: we think that cleaning up an oil spill adds value so cleaning up an oil spill does add value.
But environmental campaigners have warned that the harsh conditions in the Arctic could hamper any emergency response in the case of an oil spill.
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Oil prices spiked in 2006, when an oil spill in a BP-operated Alaskan field briefly threatened to cut off half of the state's production for months.
Speaking on board the platform, Greenpeace International's Executive Director Kumi Naidoo said it was "not a question of if an oil spill will happen, but when".
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After a visit to an oil spill in 1969, he came up with the idea of involving students in a nationwide grass-roots day of environmental awareness.
No, I doubt it, even though there were geysers of gush and torrents of drool so oleaginously thick they constituted the rhetorical equivalent of an oil spill.
An oil spill response barge, the Arctic Challenger, which Shell promised the U.S. Coast Guard was "Arctic ready, " is in Washington state, beset with technical problems.
More recently, Brazilian courts dropped criminal charges against the firm relating to its involvement in an oil spill in the Frade oil field, off the coast of Brazil.
The group has announced seven multi-million-dollar prizes for achievements ranging from landing a robot on the moon to cleaning up an oil spill, and has awarded four prizes.
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Legacy of an Oil Spill: Ten Years After the Exxon Valdez is sponsored by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council and the Alaska Sea Grant College Program.
"The agreement is a great step forward for the protection of the Arctic from an oil spill because it sets up a system for the states to co-operate in practice, " he said.
Of course keep in mind that any and all stock screening tools do not know about news events such as an oil spill, but only evaluates the financial numbers based upon quarterly earnings filings.
The goal of the hearings is to examine the design and performance of the drilling rig's blowout preventer, a mammoth set of valves that is the last line of defense against an oil spill.
Anyone who has ever tried mopping up an oil spill with a single paper towel will know how difficult it is to keep unsavory news from spreading through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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On the other hand, an oil spill at a terminal along the pristine British Columbian coast - a scenario cited by opponents of the Northern Gateway project - would damage the employment prospects of local people in fishing and tourism.
The news, however, suggests that Britain's Energy and Climate Change Committee will question Hayward about BP's ability to respond to an oil spill or other incident in the North Sea, as part of a government inquiry into the safety of deep water drilling in Britain.
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His final years were marred by a succession of devastating accidents an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery in 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others, and an oil spill a year later that dumped 4, 800 barrels of oil at Prudhoe Bay, on the coast of Alaska.
Naval war games last fall anticipated security challenges in the near future: how to deal with terrorists in the Arctic, how to deal with a rogue ship carrying nuclear weapons in the Arctic, how to move a U.S. fleet around the top of the planet, how to help clean up an oil spill.
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