“That spill caused an immediate and significant impact to the ecosystem, with sightings of birds and turtles washed up on beaches covered with oil, as well as an increase in the deaths of other marine life” (Sinclair, 2017). The oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico was the biggest...
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Under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), which became law after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the federal government, impacted state governments, federally recognized Indian tribes and foreign governments act as “trustees” on behalf of the general public. Trustees are charged with ...
A heavily-oiled bird is rescued from the waters of Barataria Bay, which are laden with oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 一只满身油泞的鸟从巴拉塔里亚湾水里营救上来,当时小鸟全身沾满了从深水地平线泄漏出来的油污。 thehlc.cn 5. Thick black waves of oil and brown whitecaps chu...
WhattypesofanalysiswillbenecessarytotracktheconditionofthemarineenvironmentfollowingtheDeepwaterHorizonoilspill? Typically,oilisextracted/dissolvedinasolventsuchasmethylenechloride,andthisextractisanalyzedbygaschromatography(GC)fortotalpetroleumhydrocarbons(TPH)orGCwithmassspectrometry(GC/MS)forquantificationofthespecific...
A. Where an oil spill takes place. B. How advanced the devices are. C. The amount of oil that has spilled. D. The person that operates the devices.()3. What does the underlined word "greasy" in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A. Worth a lot of money. B. Covered with lots of oil....
BP oil spill: Canada suspends licenses for deepwater drillingRoland Gribben
March 19 — Macondo Prospect lease purchased by a consortium of BP (65%), Anadarko Petroleum (25%), and Mitsui Oil Exploration (10%). This lease sale included 614 other prospect leases, of which 34.5% were at the depth of the Macondo Prospect or deeper.1...
Water bloom, dense aquatic population of microscopic photosynthetic organisms produced by an abundance of nutrient salts in surface water, coupled with adequate sunlight for photosynthesis. The microorganisms or the toxic substances that they release may