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Today award-winning science writer Fred Pearce – environmental consultant to New Scientist and author of Confessions Of An Eco Sinner – reveals that the super-ships that keep the West in everything from Christmas gifts to computers pump out killer chemicals...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Pollution, Oil tanker, Tankers, Ship, Environment
The move is part of an ongoing effort to expand the canal so that bigger oil tankers, in this case up to 240,000 tons, can use it. The previous 58ft draft limit excluded most of the world's large oil tankers.
Tags: Egypt, Cairo, Tankers, Tank ship, Canal, Suez, Suezmax, Hospitality Recreation, Suez Canal, Macro-engineering, Oil tanker, Business Finance
Delaware's top environmental officer has turned back a second attempt to break a state-sanctioned monopoly on the business of using barges to lighten crude oil tankers arriving in the Delaware Bay and Delaware River. Collin P. O'Mara, secretary of the...
Tags: Delaware Bay, Delaware River, DNREC, coastal zone, Bouchard Affiliates, crude oil, oil tanker, New Castle, Delaware, Lightering, Tank ship, Overseas Shipholding Group, Anchorage Alaska, States of the United States, Tankers, Business Finance
As gas prices at the pump near $3 dollars a gallon, the oil companies would like you to believe that more people are buying gas driving prices higher, that couldn’t be further from the truth! The fact is, someone is artificially manipulating the...
Tags: oil, companies, crude, tankers, insurance, dock, price gouging, president, congress