A growing oil spill in the Humber Estuary has sparked concerns ... Cleanup crews deploy specialised floating barriers called booms which corral the oil into more controllable areas.

A multi-team response to a joint exercise testing the response to an oil spill in Lake Whakatipu was successful, says ORC’s ...

When there is a spill, such as has happened today ... Cleanup crews can deploy specialised floating barriers called booms which corral the oil into more controllable areas. While there are ...

It can also be employed in the collection and containment of such oil spills. The technology allows clean-up crews to deploy a small amount of surfactant through the spill control boom causing the ...

HARWICH’S Haltermann Carless have donated special equipment to the Harwich Society’s Bobbit after a cooking oil spillage.

One duck is dead and several others have been rescued after an oil spill at OU pond and now the group that first brought ...

In the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1989, a storm dispersed the oil over a wide area into a film too thin to catch alight. Improved boom designs to better corral oil ...

British officials are concerned about environmental damage after a cargo ship carrying a toxic chemical hit a tanker ...

The accident occurred when a tanker was unloading crude oil through ... and absorbent booms, in charge of the contractor company CINTRA, which contained the entire spill.“ Environmentalists ...

Students from Vessigny Secondary School, La Brea, were evacuated from the compound yesterday morning after they complained about fumes from an oil spill. Residents near the school also complained ...