Well, what do you want to do?

So while the oil spill, the leak, the eruption, is a catastrophe,

I got a little grease in this lining.

After all, you didn't personally drain the gasoline tank yourself.

An American Oil Spill

Drilling a release well finally did the job of stopping the flow of oil. Deepwater Horizon is still spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, even though BP has succeeded in inserting a smaller pipe into the main leakage to suck off part of the flow.

When the BP oil spill happened, I was working at MIT, and I was in charge of developing an oil spill cleaning technology.

They're very important in oil spills.

It also makes it very viscous.

A brandnew engine. Not a drop of oil!

So oil and petrochemicals are not just a problem where there's a spill they're a problem where there's not.

I created a little oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

I think this latest oil spill in the Gulf is a reminder.

Now, in the Exxon Valdez spill, about 30 percent of the killer whales died in the first few months.

One of the things that happened with the two previous oil spills was that we really worked on some of the symptoms.

Probably the housemaid's cupboard slops, mops, dripping taps.

If you go to the site of the blowout, it looks pretty unbelievable.

The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions. One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels twice the size of the BP spill.

On the top line, this is the BP oil spill billions of barrels of oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico.

People got very upset when the BP oil spill happened for very good reason.

I mean, we've essentially been exporting oil spills when we import oil from places without tight environmental regulations.

Carl Safina The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims

This is why these moments of these oil spills are so important.

And so, cognitive dissonance is part and parcel of the way that we deal with oil, and it's really important to dealing with this oil spill.

If it sank, it would be a whole different story as far as an oil spill.

So the thing about water oil spills is that they are very politically galvanizing.

Luckily still, it seems to be out of harm's way of the recent oil spill.

Tank washing gave rise to a huge number of small spills, and tanker accidents such as those involving the Torrey Canyon, Exxon Valdez, Metula, and St. Peter resulted in huge, concentrated spills. Blowouts were not infrequent, but most occurred on land or in shallow water, and most could be stopped relatively easily.

If ice is used, the outer packaging or overpack should be leakproof.

They were all on the Gulf in May, while oil was starting to come ashore in certain places.

But I think we have to understand where this leak really started from.

So I think that the oil blowout, the bank bailout, the mortgage crisis and all these things are absolutely symptoms of the same cause.

I mean, these pictures this is from the Santa Barbara spill.

Gambling site lets users bet on which species will go extinct because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

We're either going to have an absolutely unmitigated catastrophe of this oil leak in the Gulf, or we will make the moment we need out of this, as many people have noted today.

Export control, therefore, must totally exclude the possibility of squandering unique national technologies, materials, component parts and intellectual property and prevent leaks of information that constitutes a State and military secret.

Linoleum washes easily, just in case.

When the Santa Barbara spill happened in 1969, it formed the environmental movement in its modern form.

Other programmes focus on development of the subregional contingency plan for oil spills.

Oil detection for the State Pollution Control Authority (SFT) and oil companies

We tend to think of oil spills and mercury and we hear a lot about plastic these days.

Miscellaneous oils, grease and preservation fluids

Smoke screen. Oil slick. Rear bulletproof screen.

The transport unit shall be constructed in such a way as to prevent the loss of contents.

Now, in the Exxon Valdez spill, about 30 percent of the killer whales died in the first few months.