1. Oil Spills Imagine yourself as a killer whale. You are swimming around when you decide to stick your head out of the water to take a breath. As you are taking a breath, you see a large http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/oil_spills.htm

Imagine yourself as a killer whale. You are swimming around when you decide to stick your head out of the water to take a breath. As you are taking a breath, you see a large stream of thick black oil heading your way. You go back under water only to find other animals dying one by one because the oil is damaging their bodies. This is the way some animals must die in the ocean. They die because of an oil spill occurring in their habitat What’s an oil spill? Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. There are a few more ways an oil spill can occur. Equipment breaking down may cause an oil spill. If the equipment breaks down, the tanker may get stuck on shallow land. When they start to drive the tanker again, they can put a hole in the tanker causing it to leak oil. When countries are at war, one country may decide to dump gallons of oil into the other country’s oceans. Terrorists may cause an oil spill because they will dump oil into a country’s ocean. Many terrorists will do this because they are trying to get the country’s attention, or they are trying to make a point to a country. Illegal dumpers are people that will dump crude oil into the oceans because they do not want to spend money on decomposing their waste oil. Because they won’t spend money on breaking up the oil (decomposing it) they will dump oil into the oceans, which is illegal.

2. Oil Spills Oil spills cause enormous amounts of damage to ocean and coastal ecosystems and the human populations that depend on them for subsistence, employment, and commerce. These resources http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ocean/visualizations/oil_spills.html

On the Cutting Edge - Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty Teaching About the Ocean System Using New Research Techniques: Data, Models and Visualization Topical Resources Cutting Edge Ocean System Visualizations Related Links A Civil Action: The Woburn Toxic Trial Geology and Human Health Teaching Public Policy in the Earth Sciences Impacts of Resource Development on Native American Lands ... Teaching about Energy in Geoscience Courses Oil Spills Compiled by John McDaris of SERC. Oil spills cause enormous amounts of damage to ocean and coastal ecosystems and the human populations that depend on them for subsistence, employment, and commerce. These resources speak to the effects of oil spills and aid educators in teaching about these catastrophic events. Browse the complete set of Visualization Collections . If you have comments or additional resources to add to the page, use our Feedback box to let us know. Jump down to: Teaching Activities and Materials References Visualizations, Videos, and Information Jump down to: Exxon Valdez General Models and Software Deep Water Horizon - April, 2010

3. Oil Spills - The New York Times Collection of recent and archived news and commentary, photos, multimedia and selected web resources. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/oil_spills/index.

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Log In Register Now Help Home Page ... Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... O > Oil Spills E-MAIL Oil Spills Updated: Aug. 6, 2010 Oil spills are most commonly caused by tanker accidents, but tankers have not been responsible for the worst spills. Before the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, the biggest spill of all time was considered to be the leaks caused by Iraqi forces in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War, when they opened the valves on several pipelines and tankers; roughly 300 million gallons of oil was released before bombing by American warplanes shut down the pipes. In 1979, the blowout of the Ixtoc I oil well in the Gulf of Mexico released an estimated 140 million gallons of crude into the open sea. The Deepwater drilling rig caught fire and sank about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast on April 20, killing 11 crew members. A massive spill developed when a joint government and industry task force was unable to stop crude oil from streaming out of a broken pipe attached to a well that the rig had been drilling nearly a mile below sea level. It was first estimated that leaks in the pipe were spilling about 1,000 barrels of oil a day

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Member ID Password Home Contact Us Jobs Sitemap ... Give Feedback December 7-9, 2010 Opportunities in Air Quality-Climate Research in Asian-Pacific Region March 14-16, 2011 11/16/2010 - EPA Extends Deadline for Response to New Jersey Petition 11/15/2010 - Reid Says Bill on Alternative Vehicles Up First in Lame-Duck Session 11/12/2010 - Barton Says Energy Committee Should Stop ‘Environmental Radicalism' 11/11/2010 - EPA Issues Guidance on Best Available Controls for Greenhouse Gases Oil Spills REVISION May 1, 2000 Tarred beaches, dead and dying wildlife, damaged fisheries, contaminated water supplies. These are the short-term effects of an oil spill. In the long-term, toxic materials from oil can remain in the water and on the land for many years. They can build up in the food chain to lethal levels, and destroy or disrupt and area's ecosystem. How Oil Spills Occur: Petroleum is used as a vehicle fuel, heating source for homes and industry, for electricity generation, and as a feedstock for the chemical industry. Because of the huge demand for oil, enormous quantities are moved from production areas to where the oil is used. Oil is pumped from the ground, refined, transported and stored. There are many steps in this process during which oil can spill from well heads, drill rigs, tankers, pipelines and storage tanks. Oil may leak from ocean-going ships during accidental and deliberate spills. Spills can happen on land or water when oil is incorrectly handled, there are railway or truck accidents, tankers or barges collide, the insides of tankers are washed, and when natural oil deposits seep.

5. IdeaMarketers | Free Content Directory Home oil spills are of two types small oil spills and large oil spills. In most of the small scale oil spills, manual clean up would be enough. http://www.ideamarketers.com/?Oil_Spills&articleid=894840

6. List Of Oil Spills - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia This is a reversechronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills

List of oil spills From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Wikinews has related news: Oil spilled after ships collide in Singapore Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico sinks after explosion; eleven missing Gulf of Mexico oil spill expanding; submarines to try to stop leak New BP oil spill plan This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons , or 7.33 barrels , or 1165 liters. This calculation uses a median value of 0.858 for the specific gravity of light crude oil ; actual values can range from 0.816 to 0.893, so the amounts shown below are inexact. They are also estimates, because the actual volume of an oil spill is difficult to measure exactly. Contents Ongoing Occurred See also References ... edit Ongoing Spill / vessel Location Dates Estimated flow rate (tonnes/day) Spilled (min tonnes) Spilled (max tonnes) Link Notes Taylor Energy wells United States Gulf of Mexico September 16, 2004 Leaks resulting from Hurricane Ivan have been largely contained, but not entirely.

7. Oil Spills Oil Spills Fifteen years of debate have not resolved the United States public policy issue Should we allow for drilling of oil in Alaska's Arctic National http://peer.tamu.edu/curriculum_modules/Ecosystems/hazards/oil_spills.htm

Oil Spills Fifteen years of debate have not resolved the United States public policy issue: "Should we allow for drilling of oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?" To people concerned about oil-spill accidents, such drilling and transporting of oil threatens the areas' rich ecology. Oil-spill victim. Source: NOAA Living safely in the Artic refuge now are bears, wolves, foxes, musk oxen, millions of migratory birds, and a 130,000 caribou herd. These animals, and the plants too, can be harmed in three different ways: 1) direct contact, 2) poisoning after ingestion, and 3) destruction of habitat. To people concerned about energy consumption in the U.S. and about the country's dependence on unreliable foreign sources, drilling in the Alaska Refuge could supply all the oil we use over six months to two years. A re oil spills common? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says there are about 70 per day. Typically, these are small and do no serious harm. But big spills do occur sometimes, and the damage to ecosystems can be very great. What to do? This is not the place to discuss world politics or even U.S. government energy and environment policy. There is a strong argument for drilling for more oil, especially now that we have newer drilling techniques that reduce the chances of accidents. But in this ecology lesson, the appropriate thing to do is to learn about what oil spills can do to the environment.

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10. Oil Spills: News & Videos About Oil Spills - CNN.com BP received a seventh bill from the government on Thursday, for $62.6 million, for cleanup costs related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. http://topics.cnn.com/topics/oil_spills

11. Gulf Of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010) - The New York Times Collection of recent and archived news and commentary, photos, multimedia and selected web resources. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/oil_spills/gulf_o

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Log In Register Now Help Home Page ... Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... Oil Spills > Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010) E-MAIL Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010) Chris Graythen/Getty Images Updated: Nov. 8,  2010 The Latest The lead investigator for the presidential panel investigating the BP oil spill said that he had found no evidence of shortcuts taken to save money Transocean and Halliburton , had cut corners to speed completion of the well, which cost $1.5 million a day to drill. Overview An explosion on April 20 aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a drilling rig working on a well for the oil company BP one mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, led to the largest accidental oil spill in history. After a series of failed efforts to plug the leak, BP said on July 15 that it had capped what it had named the Macondo well, marking the first time in 86 days that oil was not gushing into the gulf. Nearly five months after it blew out of control, the federal government finally declared the well dead on September 19th, after pressure tests confirmed that cement that had been pumped into the bottom of the once-gushing well through a relief well formed an effective, and final, seal. The Macondo well and the two relief wells were to be abandoned, following standard industry practices. Nearly five million barrels of oil had gushed from BP's well, according to estimates by government scientists, an amount that outstrips the estimated 3.3 million barrels spilled into the Bay of Campeche by the Mexican rig Ixtoc I in 1979.

12. Largest Oil Spills The Environment A Global Challenge is the most comprehensive resource on the environment available online. With 400 articles discussing everything from environmental economics http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Statistics/largest_oil_spills.html

Oil Spill Date Location Volume Ixtoc I, well blowout Mexico Nowruz Oil Field, well blowout Persian Gulf Castillo de Bellver, broke/fire South Africa Amoco Cadiz, grounding France Aegean Captain, Atlantic Empress Tobago D-103 Libya, well blowout Libya Atlantic Empress, fire Barbados Torrey Canyon, grounding England Irenes Serenade, fire Greece Sea Star, collision/fire Gulf of Oman Source: "Coping with an Oiled Sea: An Analysis of Oil Spill Response Technologies," U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, March 1990, page 4. The table above shows the largest oil spills on record since 1967. The total volume of oil is given in millions of gallons. Most of the oil spills occurred in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Fewer are happening now, though major oil spills do certainly still occur. When the Exxon Valdez oil spill happened, many people were shocked and horrified. But the ship spilt 10.8 million gallons, almost nothing compared with as many as 428 million gallons for the Ixtoc I in Mexico and other less-known spills. That shows that not all major oil spills receive great publicity, and media coverage is hardly proportional to the total amount of damage done.

13. Articles About Oil Spills - Los Angeles Times Oil Spills News. Find breaking news, commentary, and archival information about Oil Spills from the Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/oil-spills

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15. Oil Spill - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia An oil spill is a release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term often refers to marine oil spills http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill

Oil spill From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search "OIL Slick" redirects here. For the fictional character, see Oil Slick (Transformers) For the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, see Deepwater Horizon oil spill Deepwater Horizon oil spill on June 25, 2010. A beach after an oil spill Oil Slick from the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea, September, 2009. An oil spill is a release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution . The term often refers to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters . Oil spills include releases of crude oil from tankers offshore platforms drilling rigs and wells , as well as spills of refined petroleum products (such as gasoline diesel ) and their by-products, and heavier fuels used by large ships such as bunker fuel , or the spill of any oily refuse or waste oil . Spills may take months or even years to clean up. Oil also enters the marine environment from natural oil seeps Public attention and regulation has tended to focus most sharply on seagoing oil tankers. Contents Environmental effects Cleanup and recovery Prevention Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) mapping ... edit Environmental effects Surf Scoter covered in oil as a result of the 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill . Less than 1% of oil soaked birds survive, even after cleaning.

16. Aids For Oil Spill Responders The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s site on oil spill response. Includes training materials, links to photos of the Exxon Valdez 1989 oil spill, and research information. http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/oilaids.html

17. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Hyperlinked encyclopedia article about the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

Deepwater Horizon oil spill From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is the latest accepted revision accepted on 15 November 2010 Jump to: navigation search "2010 oil spill" and "BP oil spill" redirect here. For other oil spills in 2010, see 2010 oil spill (disambiguation) . For the 2006 oil spill involving BP, see Prudhoe Bay oil spill Deepwater Horizon oil spill The oil slick as seen from space by NASA 's Terra satellite on May 24, 2010. Location Gulf of Mexico near Mississippi River Delta , United States Coordinates 28°44′12″N 88°21′58″W 28.736628°N 88.365997°W Coordinates ... 28.736628°N 88.365997°W Date Spill date: 20 April 2010 – 15 July 2010 Well officially sealed: 19 September 2010 Cause Cause Wellhead blowout Casualties 13 dead ( 11 killed on Deepwater Horizon , 2 additional oil-related deaths 17 injured Operator Transocean under contract for BP Spill characteristics Volume barrels As much as 180m gallons (4.28million barrels) Area The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill , the Gulf of Mexico oil spill , the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed for three months in 2010. The impact of the spill continues since the well was capped. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.

18. Oil Spills | Emergency Management | US EPA EPA's Gulf of Mexico oil spill response. EPA's Response to Enbridge Spill in Michigan. EPA seeks to prevent, prepare for, and respond to oil spills that occur in and around http://www.epa.gov/oilspill/

@import "http://www.epa.gov/osweroe1/s/oem.css"; @import "http://www.epa.gov/osweroe1/s/print.css"; @import "http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/s/epa.css"; @import "http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/s/print.css"; Jump to main content. Emergency Management Contact Us Search: All EPA Emergency Management You are here: EPA Home Emergency Management Oil Spills Navigation Home Our Programs Our ... Sources Oil Spills Quickfinder Border Programs CAMEO EPCRA Facility Response Plan ... EPA's Response to Enbridge Spill in Michigan EPA seeks to prevent, prepare for, and respond to oil spills that occur in and around inland waters of the United States. EPA is the lead federal response agency for oil spills occurring in inland waters, and the U.S. Coast Guard is the lead response agency for spills in coastal waters and deepwater ports. To learn more about our oil pollution activities, please visit the following links: Facility Response Plan (FRP) Rule - Certain facilities that store and use oil must submit plans to respond to a worst-case discharge of oil and to a substantial threat of such a discharge. Information about preparing and submitting an FRP can be found on this page. National Contingency Plan (NCP) Subpart J - Product Schedule - Provides for a schedule of spill mitigating devices and substances that may be authorized for use on oil discharges. Information on this page includes the Product Schedule, information on how to list a product, and the complete NCP Subpart J rule.

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Autos Real Estate Jobs Classifieds ... Delivery Search Field Weather in NYC Traffic Transit Tuesday, November 16, 2010 News Sports Gossip Entertainment ... Blogs Oil Spills Hot Topics: Charles Rangel Jessica Simpson President Obama Oil Spills Overview Photo Galleries Active Topics Jewelers and Jewelry Manufacturing Consumer Products and Services Consumer Durables Manufacturing Telecommunications Sector ... War Casualties Articles from the Daily News BP reports billions in profits, eyes payouts Posted on 2010-11-02 19:25:00 BP is once again reporting profits even with an estimated $40 billion price tag for the response to its blown out well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP, Halliburton ignored potential problemsthat may have caused oil rig explosion Posted on 2010-10-28 21:05:07 BP finally stopped its oil well from leaking into the Gulf in September, but bad news for the company continues to pour out. Two more bodies found in Hungary's toxic red sludge Posted on 2010-10-08 15:12:22 The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests heightened concerns about possible longer-term harm caused by toxic heavy metals in the slurry. Did 'The Social Network' botch the business cards?

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