But they also just had these huge discoveries of oil off their shores underwater, pretty deep down.
The charity said the birds were found covered in thick black fuel oil off Ramsgate and Rye last week.
In 2007, it discovered an estimated 40 billion barrels of oil off shore.
Lucas Oil also sponsors some car races, including the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, and has a track in Missouri.
This turned into a crisis last January when Belarus started to siphon the oil off the pipes and Gazprom then cut the oil from pumping.
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The RSPB says this incident is "far worse than the Amoco Cadiz spill" of 1978, which involved more than 230, 000 tonnes of oil off north Brittany.
While some shrimpers are eager to get back out, many are still working for BP, which has hired boats to skim oil off the surface and lay protective booms along the shorelines.
The Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 demonstrated how little improvement in oil cleanup technology had been made since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
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He also owns oil refineries in Morocco and Sweden and oil fields off west Africa as well as a 70% stake in the National Oil Company of Ethiopia.
"Every eight months, nearly 11 million gallons of oil run off our streets and driveways into our waters -- the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, " the report says.
Enormous oil discoveries off Rio's coast helped attract a flood of new investment to the city.
Last month, an oil spill off the East Yorkshire coast affected dozens of seabirds, killing at least 15.
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Brazil has discovered a spectacular oil field off its coast, but it will be hard and expensive to exploit.
He says BP was looking to be a serious player in the deep water oil finds off of the Brazilian coast.
Providence already made headlines earlier this year with the discovery of a massive oil field off the southern coast of Ireland.
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He now sits atop Midroc Group, a sprawling conglomerate that owns oil refineries in Morocco and Sweden and oil fields off West Africa.
Brazil is becoming a net exporter of Petroleum due to a number of deep water oil finds off the coast of Rio and Espirito Santo states.
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Earth Day was conceived by U.S. senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 after he witnessed a massive oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California the previous year.
At the same time, oil companies will soon be opening up new oil fields off Angola and the country hopes to become the largest producer of crude in Africa.
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But Rio along with the rest of Brazil has benefited from the oil discoveries off Brazil's coastline, as well as the country being named to host the Olympics and soccer's 2014 World Cup.
Those plumes of oil are off the coast.
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Still, Texas has fared much better than the rest of the country through the recession and recovery, in part because resource jobs have buoyed employment, especially as oil came off its recession lows through this year.
Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.
Oil producers warn that uncertainty about drilling in the Arctic may permanently scare off oil companies willing to pay billions for a chance to find some of the last untapped U.S. oil reserves.
The oil sell-off was a important catalyst for the jumps made by the major indexes on Tuesday.
That all changed in 2004-2005, when transportation costs suddenly rocketed as oil prices blasted off to all-time highs.
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The price of oil has leveled off so far in March, but the damage may already be done.
In 1982, 84 people died in an oil rig disaster off Newfoundland, Canada.
But in 1999, the most advanced of the consortia drilling for oil and gas off Sakhalin began producing it.
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