While investment in UK water is back in boom times, the offshore industry in and around Aberdeen appears to be doing exceptionally well at diversifying into foreign markets.
The Colorado presented not so much a threat as a huge opportunity: water to support an economic boom in the American West.
The ships that have skimmed up millions of gallons of oily water, and unfurled miles of barrier boom, will be required for months to come.
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An array of state and federal agencies are on the scene, skimming up oily water, installing thousands of feet of boom in an attempt to contain the oil, and burning off some of the slick.
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Over five and a half million feet of boom has been laid across the water to block and absorb the approaching oil.
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As growing water scarcity casts a shadow over the economic boom in warmer states, many in the long-scorned northlands are hoping they can finally make their abundance of freshwater a magnet for businesses and jobs that are now going elsewhere.
We have other skimming arrays that are towed with boom systems, and we have shallow water skimmers that are deployed inshore.
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Both parties colluded in the fuel-economy loophole that allowed the passenger "truck" boom that kept Detroit's head above water during the '90s.
The same boom has brought drilling rigs, and the fears of air and water pollution that accompany them, into densely-populated urban areas.
There was just a bit of water on the bottom, and when he checked the rudder and sail and boom everything seemed to be in working order.
The Coast Guard deployed 20, 000 gallons of dispersants into the water Thursday, he said, and more than 1.3 million feet of boom are deployed around the state.
No amount of boom will protect waterbirds like pelicans, gulls and terns, because diving into the water for fish is how they eat.
Fitzgerald was the novelist who most thrillingly and accurately captured the roar of the 1920s, the "great gaudy spree" that witnessed the most overwhelming economic boom in U.S. history, a time when money and bathtub gin flowed like water.
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Many environmental groups, of course, see the shale gas boom unleashed by hydrofracking and horizontal drilling technologies as more a curse than a blessing, producing contaminated water supplies and air pollution while scaring local landscapes.
So what we're doing now is we're taking inventory of all the vessels that have presented themselves to determine which ones can go out in deep water -- they've got radio, they've got full equipment, they can actually lay out boom, they can engage in skimming -- which ones aren't able to do that, and that process is going to be coordinated.
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