Blowout of the Mexican Oil Well Ixtoc I: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ... September 8, 9, 1979--Corpus Christi, TexasU.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 363 páginas |
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activities acts Admiral YoST agencies answer Attorney General WHITE August bareboat charter Bay of Campeche bays beaches blowout blowout preventer boat booms BREAUX Campeche Captain CORBETT Chairman clean cleanup coastal commercial committee compensation concerned contingency plan Coordinator Corpus Christi damage assessment disaster dispersants dollars drill pipe economic effects effort environmental equipment estuaries Federal fish funds GARZA going Gulf of Mexico hearings HEFFERNAN impact international law IXTOC jurisdiction liability loss MAHOOD Mexican Mexican Government million mousse NOAA offshore oil pollution oil spill oilspill onboard Owner Parks and Wildlife Pemex percent PERMARGO personnel Port Aransas Port Isabel Port Mansfield present problem protect question red drum ring groove ROBERTS sand SEDCO Senator shrimp South Padre Island statement STUDDS TAYLOR Texas coast Texas Parks Thank tion U.S. Coast Guard United vessel Wildlife Department
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Página 257 - ... policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction...
Página 254 - States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere; or upon an act outside the territory of the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere and that act causes a direct effect in the United States...
Página 37 - Master or Owner, nor the Charterer, shall, unless otherwise in this Charter expressly provided, be responsible for any loss or damage or delay or failure in performing hereunder arising or resulting from : Act of God, act of war...
Página 253 - The principle that a man who outside of a country wilfully puts in motion a force to take effect in it is answerable ^at the place where the evil is done, is recognized in the criminal jurisprudence of all countries.
Página 257 - ... under the principles of international law, as well as of the law of the United States, no State has the right to use or permit the use of its territory in such a manner as to cause injury by fumes on or to the territory of another or the properties or persons therein, when the case is of serious consequence and the injury is established by clear and convincing evidence.
Página 37 - Nation under whose flag the vessel sails or any department thereof, or any person acting or purporting to act with the authority of such Government or of any department thereof, or by any committee or person having, under the terms of the War Risks...
Página 253 - United States v. Aluminum Co. of America, 148 F.2d 416 (2d Cir. 1945); United States v.
Página 38 - Charterer shall be dissolved or be adjudged a bankrupt, or shall have a petition in bankruptcy filed against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or if a receiver or receivers shall be appointed for...
Página 258 - This has established that one country may not permit the use of its territory in such a manner as to cause injury to the territory of another and shall be responsible to pay compensation for any injury so suffered.
Página 260 - ... States; that, therefore, there is in this case an inherent limit to the exercise of the Court's jurisdiction, this limit being so evident that it depends neither on an explicit clause of the Convention nor on a reservation under Article 64 ; " Whereas, for all these reasons, and having regard to the decisions of the Permanent Court of International Justice and the International Court of Justice, the Belgian Government contends that...