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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Oil pollution"”.
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Legal measures for the prevention of oil pollution by ships and civil liability for oil pollution damage in South African marine and coastal waters
… South Africa aimed at preventing and prohibiting oil pollution, as well as current civil liability regimes for oil pollution accidents are adequate or if they fail to meet the standard required by international law. For instance, compensation for the damage and harm caused to the environment is …
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Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing of Plant Stress Reponses to Oil Pollution.
… and quantification of plant stress caused by oil pollution. Further, it examines the potential for these techniques to discriminate between oil pollution and two typically encountered plant stresses of waterlogging and water deficit. Results show that oil pollution, waterlogging and water …
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Analysing the international civil liability regime for oil pollution damage caused by ships and aligning with it the South African civil liability regime for oil pollution damage cause by ships
Oil-fouled beaches, dying seabirds and severe economic loss from the closure of fishing grounds and holiday resorts is the picture painted by oil spills, and these consequences often arouse public outrage. Oil spills cause extensive damage to the marine environment and to human society. Indeed, the …
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Problems and prospects for the development of the compensation mechanism for oil pollution damage in China
The increasing seaborne transport of oil constitutes a growing pollution risk to the seas and oceans. Large spills of oil from vessel’s sources in small areas have caused considerable environmental and economic concerns. Therefore, most public attention is focused on these accidents. Although the …
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A critical examination of South African law on civil liability for oil pollution damage from ships
Throughout the development of the International Law of the Sea there has been a conflict between the notion of the freedom of the seas and their rights that a coastal state may exercise over the seas adjacent to its territory. This conflict stems from the · coastal state wanting to exploit the …
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A bioengineered approach for sustainable crude oil pollution treatment via entrapment, dispersal and removal using Nano-CarboScavenger
… sources and designed for a multipurpose oil sequestration and dispersion agent that is environmentally undisruptive. NCS distribution on crude oil contaminated water was found to combine both absorption and dispersion mechanisms to treat a maximum of 80% of the pollution, while NCS …
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A Cross-Country Investigation of International Vessel-Source Legislation and Oil Pollution Compliance Practices: The Case of Nigeria and the United States.
Environmental issues, the frequency of oil accidents, liability and compensation, and issues related to the efficacy of oil legislation proliferate oil discourse. In addition, there is good amount of literature on the use of deterrence in the criminal justice system. However, literature on the …
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An examination of the inadequacy of the wording of the damage claim provisions of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, resulting in interpretative legal difficulties as revealed by claims stemming from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 (OPA), contains a provision, s1002(b) (2), that sets out six categories or kinds of damage that may be recovered from a ‘responsible party’ liable for losses resulting from damage caused by the discharge of oil in United States (US) waters. The provision was …
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Proteomic insights into the marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (OHCB) during alkane degradation
… dominate microbial communities after marine oil spills due to their distinct ability to utilize hydrocarbons as sole carbon and energy sources. They perform key roles in the natural attenuation of oil pollution, but also have the potential to be used in bioremediation strategies. To …
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An Evaluation of the Effects of Marine Oil-spills, Remediation Strategies, and Shipwrecks on Microbial Community Structure and Succession
The evaluation of how Bacteria respond to oil-contamination, and the application of dispersants and biosurfactants, in North Sea seawater microcosms is the focus of Chapter Two. Analysis revealed that dispersants and biosurfactants, which significantly reduced the interfacial tension between oil …
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The Sound and the Fury: Common Sense About the Exxon Valdez
… forged in the context of the struggle against oil pollution in Alaska, and attempts to evaluate their effects, maintaining critical understandings of nature and wilderness without rejecting those terms out of hand, or out of the context of the specific social and ecological struggles in which …
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Adequacy of Federal Marine Salvage Policy in the United States
… mechanisms to reinforce a private response: the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and the Salvage Facilities Act. There are three areas of weakness in current salvage policy: physical and human capital investment, friction between the private and public sector …
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Liability for pollution damage from offshore oil spills: The CLC and fund conventions, the EU's Environmental Liability Directive and their implications for New Zealand law
… penalties and damages to compensate for all oil pollution claims. The recent Deepwater Horizon disaster has had global repercussions for operators and regulators, but has sparked little discussion of legal liability issues in the New Zealand context. New Zealand’s offshore petroleum liability …
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Assessing the distribution and vulnerability of a seabird community at sea to inform conservation and management
… In order to assess seabird vulnerability to oil pollution in European waters I develop a new Oil Vulnerability Index (OVI) that updates information on population size and conservation status, as well as accounting for the potential attraction/avoidance of seabirds to offshore infrastructure …
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Distribution of hydrocarbons in a salt marsh ecosystem after an oil spill and physiological changes in marsh animals from the polluted environment
… polluted by an accidental spill of Number 2 fuel oil. Field and laboratory studies were conducted for 5 years comparing the oiled Wild Harbor Marsh with the unoiled Sippewissett Marsh, both on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts. The data contributes information 1) on the incorporation of oil into the …
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The evolution prospects of the post-OPA90 Alaskan Oil Trade
… 24, 1989, the United States Congress enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a series of regulations requiring technical and operational changes in tank vessels trading in U.S. waters with the intention of preventing future spills. Although the effects of OPA90 have been felt worldwide, vessels …
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Integrating environmental and health and safety management system in the oil and gas sectors: a case study of Nigeria
Oil and gas industries around the world are often linked to poor environmental management. As a result, they raise concerns about potential negative environmental, health and safety impacts. Oil spills are considered to have caused a wide range of environmental damage. About 7 to 700 tonnes per …
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Long-Term Assessments Of Some Vessel-Source Marine Pollutants
… have been widely perceived as major sources of pollution. Preventive and control management strategies have therefore been progressively introduced internationally to reduce and eliminate these inputs to the marine environment. The long-term effectiveness of these measures, applied to vessels …
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