Environmental Damage Assessment with Hypothetical Surveys: The Calibration Approach

1999 ◽  
pp. 217-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn W. Harrison ◽  
Robert L. Beekman ◽  
Lloyd B. Brown ◽  
Leianne A. Clements ◽  
T. M. McDaniel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Calibration Approach

Environmental Damage Assessment of Carbon Capture and Storage

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhawna Singh ◽  
Anders H. Strømman ◽  
Edgar G. Hertwich
Keyword(s):  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
And Storage

THE HAVEN INCIDENT: LESSONS LEARNED WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES

1993 ◽  
Vol 1993 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-183
Author(s):  
R. Adm. Walter Turbini ◽  
Eugenio Fresi ◽  
Franco Bambacigno
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Heavy Crude Oil ◽  
Sensitive Area ◽  
International Level ◽  
Ligurian Sea ◽  
Environmental Damages ◽  
Heavy Crude

ABSTRACT On April 11, 1991, the Cypriot tanker Haven, while at anchor off Genoa with some 144,00 tons of Iranian heavy crude oil on board, sustained a series of explosions and caught fire. Due to timely and effective intervention, it was possible to avoid the worst consequences of the accident. In fact, while the huge fire was allowed to consume a large quantity of oil, thus reducing the spill into the sea, the wreck was towed into shallower waters, where it eventually sank, permitting easier oil confinement and recovery operations. However, a very sensitive area of the Ligurian Sea has suffered important environmental damage, the assessment of which is still in progress. The procedure for environmental damage assessment and compensation is still a matter of discussions and is affected by several uncertainties. This presentation is intended to outline the methodology that has been applied in the case of the Haven accident, as a basis for further discussions at the international level.

Environmental Damage Assessment - Canadian Style

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (1) ◽  
pp. 1151-1154
Author(s):  
Roger Percy ◽  
Sinclair Dewis ◽  
Peter Hennigar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Environment Canada ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Restoration Process ◽  
Scientific Assessment ◽  
Environmental Damages ◽  
National Approach

ABSTRACT Damage Assessment involves evaluating and monetizing damages for compensation purposes. This process is meant to compliment enforcement activities by providing a framework for securing funds for restorative and prevention measures. In recognition of the growing need to address the issue of restoration of and compensation for environmental damages incurred as a result of pollution incidents Environment Canada has undertaken an initiative to develop and implement a national approach to environmental damage assessment and restoration. This paper will describe the steps taken by Canada to establish a practical framework for an environmental damage assessment/restoration process. It will highlight steps taken to reach consensus and to educate stakeholders, identify available legal instruments, describe development of guidelines/protocols for scientific assessment as well as the mechanism for decision making.

scholarly journals Damage assessment at depressurization of oil tank and spill oil product into water

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 112-117
Author(s):  
N. N. Ionona ◽  
R. G. Akhtyamov
Keyword(s):  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Dangerous Goods ◽  
Emergency Transport ◽  
The Moment

A significant part of hydrocarbons is transported by rail. At the same time, oil products are considered dangerous goods, accidents during transportation of which can lead to emergency situations. The emergency situation caused by the depressurization of the tank car with gasoline was considered, as a result of which gasoline got into the river Volkhov (Kirishi, Leningrad Region). Presents the calculation of damage from emergency situations when transporting gasoline in a tank car. Defined the economic losses, as well as damage to the environment: atmospheric air, water and land resources. The total environmental damage is calculated. When the damage assessment analysis of the relationship between damage caused to the environment from the time elapsed from the moment of an emergency, prior to commencement of works on localization and liquidation of emergency transport. It was revealed that the least environmental damage would be if proceed to emergency response within the first hour. In the second hour, environmental damage increases by 68 %, and in the third hour it increases by another 23 %.The conclusion is made about the effectiveness of rapid response and work on localization of an emergency situation related to the spill of petroleum products into a water body. 

scholarly journals Forensic Practices Related to Environmental Remediation Investigations

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. V. Mikhaleva ◽  
S. G. Golubeva
Keyword(s):  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Remedial Action ◽  
Environmental Investigation ◽  
Damage Compensation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Remedial Action Plan

A year ago the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation issued its Plenum Decree No. 49 «On some issues of applying legislation regulating environmental damage remediation». The paper examines several sections of the decree, including Section 13 (on damage compensation by recovery of costs and (or) making the defendant liable for site remediation), Section 14 (on the court’s use of fees and environmental damage assessment methodologies) and Section 18 (on the possibility of making the defendant liable for environmental remediation if a remedial action plan is already in place), as well as forensic practices involved in their enforcement. The authors conclude that substantive remediation of  environmental damage requires the assessment of potential costs of remedial action by means of forensic environmental investigation and preparation of recultivation and other remedial project plans.

NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME FOR TASMAN SPIRIT OIL SPILL IN PAKISTAN

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Irfan Saeed ALRAI ◽  
S.H.N. Rizvi
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Estuarine Ecosystem ◽  
Natural Resource Damage Assessment

ABSTRACT The oil tanker Tasman Spirit was grounded in the channel of the port of Karachi, Pakistan on 27, July 2003. The vessel was carrying a cargo of 67,535 tones of Iranian Light crude oil for delivery to the Pakistan Refinery Limited in Karachi when the grounding occurred. Significant quantities of oil were spilled when the Tasman Spirit broke up during the evening of August 13, 2003. By 18 August approximately 27,000 tones of cargo had been lost. The coastal environment in which the Tasman Spirit oil spill (TSOS) occurred is a rich and diverse tropical marine/estuarine ecosystem. It includes extensive mangrove forests, habitat for sea turtles, dolphins, porpoises, and beaked whales, and several species of lizards and sea snakes. The initial findings revealed that the initial impacted area covered about 1600 square kilometer and a coast line of 7.5 kilometer. Pakistan does not have the expertise to deal with oil spill disaster of this magnitude. The rapid assessment report was prepared with the assistance of United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme and local experts. The report emphasized the need of carrying out a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA). This paper highlights important findings of the NRDA study describing the methodologies adapted for the systematic assessment of the extent and severity of the environmental damage and ecological injury resulting from the Tasman Spirit Oil Spill.

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