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	Greenpeace exposes suffocating oil slick on the seabed off the Lebanese coast \| Greenpeace International
		The newly-discovered oil on the seabed could be brought back to the surface with currents and winds and could lead to further contamination of the coastline.
		Oil spill expert Professor Rick Steiner from the University of Alaska, who is in Beirut advising the Lebanese government and various NGOs commented: "This might the first time ever that seabed contamination has been documented this clearly.
		Once oil is in the sea, the so-called lighter (more volatile) parts or fractions are lost through evaporation, degradation and dispersion, especially in warm waters, such that they should present less of an acute toxicity problem.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/press/releases/greenpeace-exposes-suffocating (739 words)

	Oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An oil spill is the leaking of oil (generally, petroleum) into the natural environment, usually the ocean.
		Oil means oil of any kind or in any form and includes crude oil, oil refuse, petroleum-related products or by-products, oil mixed in waste, oily ballast, and oily bilge water.
		Studies of the Exxon Valdez oil spill have shown that the environmental damage caused by oil spills is greater than was previously thought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oil_slick (424 words)

	Pollution - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Lachine Canal, in Montreal, is badly polluted
		Oil slick can be very dangerous especially for sea birds, by Peter Welleman.
		Serious pollution sources include chemical plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste dumps, regular garbage dumps (many toxic substances are illegally dumped there), incinerators, PVC factories, car factories, plastics factories, corporate animal farms creating huge amounts of animal waste.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Pollution (853 words)

	The Mariner Group -- Oil Spill History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Some 6 1/2 miles of oil containment booms were positioned in the river and at the entrance to several creeks, and an estimated 80,000 gallons of spilled oil were recovered in 24-hour-a-day operations since the leak occurred.
		Oil began leaking in the region known as the Thousand Islands, and government officials said the spill may have been caused by leaking oil pipes operated nearby by China National Offshore Oil Corp, or by a mishap loading oil onto tankers.
		Oil was mainly leaking from the fuel tanks of the MSC Ilona, that caused a slick about 17 kilometers long and up to several hundred meters wide.
	www.marinergroup.com /oil-spill-history.htm (8323 words)

	Oil slick and environmental consequences \| Greenpeace International
		Oil slick and environmental consequences of conflict in the Middle East
		In the case of the heavy oil flowing into the sea from the bombed storage tanks at the Jiyyeh power station, 30 km south of Beirut, the most important priority is to prevent any further leakage and destruction and which could potentially spread to the entire east Mediterranean coastline.
		In the short term the Lebanese authorities are in urgent need of assistance to stem and control the flow of the oil onto its beaches and into its fishing grounds.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/we-have-a-message-for-peace/oil-slick (265 words)

	Oil slick threat to wildlife of Mediterranean \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		A major oil slick was spreading north from Lebanon along the Syrian coast last night and could devastate beaches as far away as Turkey and Cyprus, local ecologists and the UN have warned.
		The slick, which has been growing since the start of hostilities, follows the bombing by the Israelis of fuel tanks at the Jiyyeh power station south of Beirut.
		The slick is estimated to be more than 50 miles (80km) long and to have polluted six miles of Syrian coastline.
	www.guardian.co.uk /conservation/story/0,,1837758,00.html (273 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is frequented by tourists and marine archaeologists on diving expeditions to explore the St George’s coral reef, glimpse schools of colourful fish and for wrecks of Portuguese and Spanish galleons.
		Maritime nations across the world were alerted to oil spill disasters since the slick from a tanker, the Exxon Valdez, threatened the Alaska coastline in March 1989.
		Oil spill disaster management in India is still relatively new.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050324/asp/nation/story_4531113.asp (646 words)

	Oil Slick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Galicia (Spain) Oil Spill, from November 2002 to April 2003 Spain was Thursday tracking an eightkilometer long oil slick from the sunken tanker Prestige, with a local High wind.
		Oil slick from spill threatens Delaware River wildlife.
		A damaged oil tanker off the northwest coast of Spain split in half on Tuesday (November 19, 2002), creating a series of large oil slicks.
	var28.com /internet3/62/oil-slick.html (441 words)

	Oil Slick
		Repeat the procedure until all the oil is removed from the glass.
		The oil will eventually separate from the water, even if they are stirred or shaken together rapidly.
		One method of environmental oil retrieval is very similar to this experiment.
	teacher.scholastic.com /lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/oilslick.htm (345 words)

	Oil Slick
		Oil, gas, coal, and nuclear power producers may have found a champion in the Bush administration, but the way through Congress - though well greased with contributions - has not been easy.
		But that's chump change compared to the estimated $400 billion worth of oil the industry believes is buried beneath the caribou migrating grounds in Alaska.
		It exempted oil companies from paying royalties to the government for oil obtained under federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.opensecrets.org /newsletter/ce76/oil.asp (1126 words)

	FRB: Testimony, Greenspan--Economic outlook--September 8, 2004
		In addition to the difficulties of measuring the impact of oil prices on economic growth, the oil price outlook itself is uncertain.
		Growing concerns about the long-term security of oil production in the Middle East, along with heightened worries about the reliability of supply from other oil-producing regions, led to a pronounced increase in the demand to hold inventory at a time when the level of world commercial oil stocks was rising only modestly.
		Indeed, in fields where, two decades ago, roughly one-third of the oil in place ultimately could be extracted, almost half appears to be recoverable today.
	federalreserve.gov /boarddocs/testimony/2004/200409082 (2515 words)

	Galicia (Spain) Oil Spill, from November 2002 to April 2003
		The case is then followed by a project manager, who, in the case of the oil spill from the tanker “Prestige,” was assigned at CNES, which coordinated the satellite acquisitions and performs initial interpretation of the imagery before passing it along to the authorised user.
		The extent of the oil spill was clearly visible on an acquisition from Envisat ASAR instrument on 17 November and on a RADARSAT-1 image on 18 November.
		Possible oil slicks are visible in the central part of the image (partially covered by the left ERS image).
	earth.esa.int /ew/oil_slicks/galicia_sp_02 (2470 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Lebanon oil slick 'hits seabed'
		It is part of an oil slick created by Israeli bombing in mid-July during its military campaign in Lebanon.
		An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 tonnes of highly toxic fuel oil poured into the Mediterranean Sea after Israeli jets bombed a power plant south of Beirut.
		Five weeks after the oil spill, the Lebanese government has now approved a plan to tackle the contamination.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/5277706.stm (399 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Forth Estuary oil slick
		Oil tanker transfers scheme sparks Forth crisis summit
		A CRISIS summit has been called by councillors after fears were raised of a major oil spill in the Firth of Forth.
		COASTGUARD investigators were today continuing the hunt for the source of an oil slick which has affected hundreds of seabirds in the Forth Estuary.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1098 (243 words)

	Activity: Earth Science
		Cars use oil to run and after so many miles, that oil needs to be changed.
		People who change their own oil may not be careful and allow some of it to spill or don't fix their cars when it leaks.
		Have each team create an oil spill by putting five drops of used motor oil in the "ocean" (aluminum pie pan).
	sln.fi.edu /tfi/activity/earth/earth-2.html (615 words)

	Riding the oil slick - May. 6, 2004
		Still, oil's current price is far lower, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than during the spikes that followed other oil shocks, such as the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s or Saddam's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
		But some analysts think their colleagues may risk being blindsided by a surge in oil and raw materials prices, which are much bigger factors than labor costs for firms in China, India and other developing nations -- where many of the goods Americans consume are made.
		Though there's rampant fear that oil supply is tight and that violence in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East could make it tighter still, some analysts doubt that market fundamentals support such high prices.
	money.cnn.com /2004/05/06/markets/oil (830 words)

	Slick 50 and other ail additives
		This conclusion seems to be borne out by tests on oil additives containing PTFE conducted by the NASA Lewis Research Center, which said in their report, "In the types of bearing surface contact we have looked at, we have seen no benefit.
		In defense of Slick 50, tests done on a Chevy 6 cylinder engine by the University of Utah Engineering Experiment Station found that after treatment with the PTFE additive the test engine's friction was reduced by 13.1 percent, the output horsepower increased from 5.3 percent to 8.1 percent, and fuel economy improved as well.
		This may be appealing to the car owner who never changes his or her oil or who runs his or her car without oil, but it should be of little interest to the person who knows how to take care of their automobile.
	skepdic.com /slick50.html (1373 words)

	U.S. economy hits oil slick - Feb. 28, 2003
		Crude oil prices are at least $10 higher than most industry analysts think they should be, driven up mainly by the looming possibility that the United States will go to war in Iraq, and also by fears about what impact that will have on the supply of oil from the Middle East.
		Though the U.S. economy is more diversified and less dependent on oil than it was in the mid-1970s, when an Arab oil embargo triggered a deep and enduring U.S. recession, higher energy costs still hurt the world's largest economy.
		If oil prices shave GDP growth down to 2.2 percent or even 1.7 percent in the quarter, that's a much better rate than the paltry 0.7 percent growth of the fourth quarter of 2002, but still not nearly enough to inspire much job growth.
	money.cnn.com /2003/02/14/news/economy/oil (781 words)

	PRESTIGE OIL SLICK INDEX. Tanker Oill spill in Spanish Coast. Fuel oil Black Tide in Spain
		Evolution of Oil Slick Observed in 12-12 and 15-12 12-12 to 19-12
		Presence of heavy metals in the area of the Prestige wreck and composition of the emulsified oil washing ashore.
		Bioremediation: biological approaches to accelerate the regeneration of areas contaminated by the Prestige oil slick off the Galician coasts.
	www.accede.org /prestige/prestige-eng.htm (3692 words)

	Marine life threatened as oil slick sinks to bottom
		BEIRUT, Lebanon - An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing has begun sinking to the floor of the Mediterranean, blanketing marine life with sludge, according to a Greenpeace video that shows dead fish along the sea bottom.
		At first, the oil slathered 85 miles of Lebanon's coastline, reaching into Syria, and blocked sunlight from penetrating the water's surface, killing small plants on which many fish feed.
		Now that it is sinking, the oil threatens plants and fish that live on the sea floor.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/0823mideast-oilspill0823.html (478 words)

	Slick Sleuth Oil Spill Detection System - InterOcean systems inc.
		Monitoring and detecting oil spills as they occur in real-time accelerates response time – thus substantially reducing cleanup/remediation costs and potential damage to the environment.
		Slick Sleuth™ is a highly effective, cost-saving system which is easy to install and is totally autonomous.
		Slick Sleuth™ is an automated, optical (non-contact), oil-on-water sensor system that remotely alerts users to the presence of oil as an early warning mechanism (not unlike a 'smoke alarm' for oil spills).
	www.slicksleuth.com (461 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Crafts for Kids: Oil Slick
		Oil floats on top of water, because it is lighter than the water.
		Even when you pour oil down into water, it gets pushed to the surface and spreads out in a layer.
		That's what happens in an oil spill–the petroleum oil spreads very fast on the surface of the ocean or lake, affecting many types of animals and plants.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /kids/craft_oil_slick.html (315 words)

	Oil-Slick Jim Moves In (Articles) Greg Palast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among his glinting client roster, Exxon-Mobil oil and the defense minister of Saudi Arabia.
		Baker's firm is protecting the Saudi royal from a lawsuit by the families of the victims of September 11 over evidence suggesting that Saudi money ended up in the pockets of the terrorists.
		This is a White House first: the first time a lobbyist for the oil industry will have a desk right next to the President's.
	www.utne.com /web_special/web_specials_2004-04/articles/11202-1.html (873 words)

	NPR : Oil Slick Threatens Lebanese Coast
		NORTHAM: The oil slick that's hit Jieh's beaches is being pushed by wind and currents northward to Beirut and beyond.
		Hamaydin says that the oil slick has hit more than 40 percent of Lebanon's beaches, affecting a fragile ecosystem and marine life.
		In the meantime, the oil slick is continuing to move through the Mediterranean.
	www.npr.org /templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=5612441 (788 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| New oil slick from beached Napoli
		The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the slick was several kilometres long and 30 metres wide and was formed from oil leaked from the ship on Tuesday.
		Work is continuing to pump 3,500 tonnes of fuel oil from the ship, while some 600 birds are estimated to have died.
		The MCA added on Wednesday afternoon that the new slick was moving southwards away from the stranded ship and at the moment was moving out to sea.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/6295907.stm (588 words)

	Beware the Oil Slick!
		The crude oil price remains an abiding concern for Wall Street as witnessed by the almost inverse correlation between daily stock market and oil price fluctuations.
		The sharp rally in crude oil, while not completely escaping the notice of the financial press, has been ignored by most investors as euphoria and greed are the dominant emotions right now.
		Oil should be able to remain buoyant for a while considering that its 90-day and 200-day moving averages are still rising, with a zone of resistance between $52.00-$54.00 and support around the $47.00 area." So far this has been the case and the recent oil mini-rally has once again picked up steam.
	news.goldseek.com /ClifDroke/1117720801.php (781 words)

	Oil Limited - Innovators In Oil Slick Technology - Oil Spill Recovery and Containment
		A flexible easily transported oil recovery system that transfers 100% 'water free' oil that is 100% reusable.
		The current unit and boom system is designed to work in rivers, lakes, reservoirs, harbours, marinas, estuaries, sheltered and coastal waters and trapped oil under ice.
		The revolutionary design of the system allows the boom assembly to be used in tidal flows where traditional booms cannot retain spilt oil.
	www.oilslickharvester.com (194 words)

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		Oil Slick: A U-Boat Commanders Quest for the Knights Cross to the Iron Cross
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	www.shopping.com /xGS-oil_slick (177 words)

	Enova's Claim: Oil Slick (washingtonpost.com)
		A reformulated mixture of canola and soybean oils, Enova may soon also be an ingredient in commercially prepared foods from spreads to baked goods.
		The oil is already making inroads in Japan, where it's been sold since 1999 as Econa.
		Through a patented process, the oil has been altered to be rich in a naturally occurring kind of fat that is absorbed just like standard fat but is metabolized differently.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A52629-2005Jan31.html (844 words)

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