They are still affected by that oil spill and it was minute in comparison.
Jeff Short, a research chemist, has been studying the effects of the spill since it occurred.
Many would have guessed that BP would be willing to pay just about any sum to put the Macondo spill behind it.
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Now that BP has already taken the public relations hit for its big spill, it might decide that cutting the dividend makes most sense.
That included Exxon employees' failure to close an upstream safety valve, which could have significantly reduced the size of the spill after it was first detected.
If Google were to spill all it knew about us.
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"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.
As she shook this one box which was not empty, so that the contents would settle and not spill when it was lifted, she noticed some loose sheets of writing paper lying face down.
The DoJ said last year in a memo filed to the court in New Orleans hearing the civil case over the spill that it planned to prove BP had acted with "gross negligence or wilful misconduct" that had caused the accident.
It is a fact of life that if you report that five million limpets died as a result of the Sea Empress oil spill, it will produce less public reaction than the sight of a single puffin looking a bit unsteady on its feet.
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It worked in Alaska after the Exxon Valdez spill, and it will work in the Gulf.
Some groused that spending hundreds of dollars on a silk trench for a 5-year-old is impractical, since she will grow out of it in six months and probably spill something on it, rip it or destroy it some other way before then.
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Shell had planned to have six new wells fully drilled in the Chuckchi Sea (Alaska) before year-end, but snafus when it tested spill containment equipment and the onset of the winter freeze left it with no wells completed.
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Can they let the energy price increase go through and not have it spill over?
An official in the State Oceanic Administration told Chinese official media that heavy winds on Monday had broken up the spill and dispersed it more widely than had previously been reported.
It's also spill-resistant, like other ThinkPad keyboards before it.
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Lest anybody think Nolting is hopelessly late to this game, he jumped into the Exxon Valdez spill a year after it happened.
The bureaucrats demanded that BP make public all video, documents, reports and plans pertaining to the Deepwater Horizon spill, preferably housing it all in a dedicated website.
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The BN has vehemently denied the opposition's allegations of cheating and accused Mr Anwar of deliberately choosing a small stadium on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur for the rally to ensure it would spill onto the streets.
It was originally thought the spill involved about 3, 000 litres of a chemical liquid, but the fire service said it was 775 litres of non-hazardous petroleum distillates.
Seconds after it consumes a spill, the powder balls up and floats away for easy recovery.
While the financial impact related to the spill will be huge, it is unlikely that its overall outlook will be damaged.
The BP Oil Spill was unique in that it was a man-made disaster, played out in slow motion over months and televised from the bottom of the sea.
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This spill is about human failure and it is time BP put its hand up and admitted that.
That kind of rule means the manager may have to unload a stock after it takes a bad spill.
If the families of the men who died cleaning up the spill seek restitution from BP, it would presumably be paid out of this fund.
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