Sentence examples for frequency of spills from inspiring English sources

In a letter from September 2009, obtained by The New York Times, NOAA accused the minerals agency of a pattern of understating the likelihood and potential consequences of a major spill in the gulf and understating the frequency of spills that have already occurred there.

Saying a full cleanup should have occurred long ago, he said the delays were a result of either "institutional laziness or callousness" stemming from the "high frequency of such spills".

The separation of oil and water is a worldwide challenge due to the ever-increasing amount of oily industrial wastewater and polluted oceanic waters, as well as the increasing frequency of oil spill accidents.

"The frequency and severity of spills is higher and more consistent.

In addition, as HuffPost's Dan Froomkin reports, an Interior Department draft report on the safety of offshore oil production was heavily criticized by National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration officials, who claimed that it dramatically underestimated the frequency of offshore oil spills and understated the risk and impacts of a spill.

Accepting variability in order to reduce the risk of catastrophic events As noted in the results section, two coastal sites had done work on their sea defenses that reduced the risk of breaches and major flooding but at the cost of increasing the frequency of small amounts of seawater spilling over the top.

Zeitz et al. (2002) reported the types and relative frequencies of 413 Hg spills reported from 14 states.

The yellow numbers are the numbers of spills.

Unlike other studies undertaken in similar spills [ 10, 17], the low frequency of skin irritation observed in this study might be explained by the proper and frequent use of the protective devices and clothing supplied.

The size of the drops also effects the volume and frequency of notes played, so we're guessing an accidental spill just might blow your headphones.

This characteristic can store more spilled register values for CUDASW++ series and thus reduce the frequency of swapping some 10 shared memory values out to/in from the slow global memory.