The article informs that National Response Corp., a Great Neck-based oil recovery firm that responds to oil spills all over the world, headed the recent cleanup of Long Island Sound's worst oil ...
Introduction to studies on the effects of the (Exxon Valdez) oil spill on early life history stages of Pacific herring, (Clupea pallasi), in Prince William Sound, Alaska E D Brown, B L Norcross, J W Short Published on the web 09 April 2011. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic ...
Fig. 4. Structure of the oil spill risk BN-model, the labels next to the nodes refer to the sections where the supporting evidence is described. The encounter situation addresses the conditions under which tankers encounter other vessels in the area. This is described through a set of situatio...
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Key Words: seaducks, Exxon Valdez oil spill, ecological risk assessment, PAHs, Prince William Sound, ecotoxicology, individual-based models. INTRODUCTION Harlequin Ducks (Histrionicus histrionicus) are small seaducks that breed along clear, fast-flowing streams and inhabit shallow marine intertidal ...
Further, they drew real-world conclusions from static exposure tests without reporting actual exposure concentrations. Without this information, it is not possible to compare their results to other research or real spill events that measured and reported exposure concentrations. The 1990s' Chemical ...
“There is a massive liability that has been lying silently below the surface for all these years,” says Allan Kanner, one of the nation’s foremost environmental class-action lawyers, whose recent cases have included PFAS contamination and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. “The pieces ...
energy company, said it is reducing the amount of oil leaking from a project off the coast of Brazil after plugging the source of the spill on Nov. 13. Technology: What is Unconventional Oil All About There are four generally accepted definitions of Peak Oil – 1) when maximum oil ...
environmental groups argue lead to invoking the precautionary approach and keeping the areas closed. The petroleum industry, on the other hand, argues that this is too much precaution as the industry has operated offshore in Norway for 40 years without any spill causing major environmental effects....
and the northern Texas coast.The purpose was to determine whether there was any significant difference in oil spill rates among the four regions.The spill data from the study were drawn from the Pollution Incident Reporting System(PIRS),the records of the National Response Center(NRC),and the ...