Sentence examples for a massive spill from inspiring English sources

Plaquemines Parish is so quiet now it almost seems that the nation only dreamed of a massive spill.

The dangers posed to the Tikigaq hunting culture by a massive spill were never far from Oomittuk's mind.

Within days much of the nation was transfixed by a frantic effort by BP and the federal government to plug the leaks and contain a massive spill threatening the gulf coastline and the ocean itself.

To county leaders, the train's loads, which will total three million cubic yards of coal ash from a massive spill at a power plant in east Tennessee last December, are a tremendous financial windfall.

The Gulf War spill, which was something that was intentionally initiated by Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War under George H. W. Bush, created a massive spill that, I think, still stands today as the largest spill.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet 4. Shell's oil spills in Nigeria may have only been brought to Americans' attention after a massive spill happened in our own waters, but residents of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta have been living in the thick toxic liquid for years, as the substance poisons their water, land, and vegetation.

In November, Walter D. Cruickshank, deputy director of the Minerals Management Service, told a Senate committee that an undersea blowout and massive spill that had occurred in East Timor last year was highly unlikely in the Gulf of Mexico because of tighter United States regulations.

In some parts of the world, such as the Persian Gulf, coastal countries should be able to imagine and be prepared to respond to a massive oil spill or radionuclide release into the water.

I've written a film based on the BP oil disaster that asks What if eco-terrrorists kidnapped that the CEO of a company that was responsible for a massive oil spill and told the company to stop the spill in 72 hours or the CEO dies?

The massive spill followed an explosion that killed 11 workers at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.

The spring and summer of 2010 would be remembered more, though, for a massive oil spill that dragged on for months in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest marine oil spill in history (see Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010).