The field is in much deeper water than the Macondo prospect, where six years ago BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank, killing 11 workers and causing environmental disaster.
"Toxic chemical pollution had caused many environmental disasters, decreased drinking water supplies and even led to serious health and social issues such as cancer villages," it warned.
If we don't alter the way we eat and farm, the food industry will cause an environmental disaster.
A serious tanker accident in the Bosporus could cause an environmental disaster from which many of Istanbul's 7.6m people would suffer.
When a big ship runs into trouble, one of the first things the salvagers do is remove the fuel, so that it does not leak and cause an environmental disaster, before they can even start work on moving the vessel.
They've since caused environmental havoc.
Even by the parks' own criteria, swaling and grazing are causing an environmental disaster.
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 9 — Thousands of fishermen, soldiers and volunteers struggled on Sunday to clean up an oil spill that has caused an environmental disaster in South Korea.
The trade has caused an environmental disaster as well as battles between tree cutters and herdsmen whose camels eat from the trees.
American intelligence officials are concerned that once the facility is loaded with nuclear fuel, it could not be bombed without causing an environmental disaster.
"The volcanic activity causing the environmental disaster in Montserrat is not likely to cease in the foreseeable future," Homeland Security officials explained in a June 25 notice ending Montserratians' temporary protected status effective Feb. 27, 2005.
