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 Admiral YoST agencies Answer August bareboat charter Bay of Campeche bays beaches blowout blowout preventer booms BREAUX BUSBY Campeche Captain CORBETT casualty Chairman clean cleanup coastal commercial concerned CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman continue Coordinator Corpus Christi damage assessment program decision drilling operations economic effects effort environmental equipment estuaries Federal fish funds GARZA going Gulf of Mexico impact international law IXTOC I oil jurisdiction liability LIBRARY OF CONGRESS loss Louisiana MAHOOD Marine and Fisheries Merchant Marine Mexican Mexican Government million National NOAA offshore oil spill oilspill Owner Parks and Wildlife Pemex percent PERMARGO personnel Port Aransas Port Isabel Port Mansfield present problem question red drum response team ROBERTS SEDCO shrimp South Padre Island sovereign immunity species statement STUDDS studies SUTER TAYLOR testimony Texas coast Thank U.S. Coast Guard United vessel WYATT
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Página 239 - ... 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 33 - 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 239 - ... 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 251 - Senate and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation...
Página 34 - 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 240 - 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 242 - ... 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...
Página 236 - commercial activity" means either a regular course of commercial conduct or a particular commercial transaction or act. The commercial character of an activity shall be determined by reference to the nature of the course of conduct or particular transaction or act, rather than by reference to its purpose.
Página 9 - ... in the United States by the foreign state; or upon an act performed in the United 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 233 - The flow of... international rivers is not within the arbitrary power of one of the riparian states, for it is a rule of International Law that no state is allowed to alter the natural conditions of its own territory to the disadvantage of the natural conditions of the territory of a neighbouring state.