Sentence examples for serious spill from inspiring English sources

"All this document really confirms is that there are neither the resources nor the planning in place to contain a serious spill," she said.

The break has further increased concern about pipeline safety after a fatal explosion of a natural gas pipeline in California, and a serious spill on an oil pipeline in Michigan in July last year.

And oil companies everywhere rely on a few huge service providers: Transocean, for example, operates many of Brazil's offshore platforms, including some for Petrobras.According to David Zylbersztajn, a former ANP director, the Frade mishap shows just how unprepared Brazil is for a serious spill.

The cases snap on firmly and take a little prying to get off, though a small drop on a carpeted floor quickly demonstrated that they likely won't offer a heck of a lot of protection in a serious spill.

In the event of a serious spill or leak, the region is so remote it would be exceedingly difficult to muster workers and equipment to contain the emergency.

Krone said her time away from the track, spent mostly as a television broadcaster, had allowed her to heal completely from two serious spills as well as the emotional fallout from them.

The cars are a type of tanker known as DOT-111s, which were originally designed in the 1960s and have been involved in many serious spills.

It argues that the extreme conditions make a serious oil spill more likely.

Barely a year later, a BP-owned pipeline in Alaska ruptured, causing a serious oil spill.

The United States and the United Nations are sending experts to Bangladesh to assess the impact and potential cleanup of a serious oil spill that threatens the Sundarbans, a globally important mangrove ecosystem and home to endangered river dolphins.

The wreck of the New Carissa caused one of the most serious oil spills to affect the state of Oregon, and the worst since a 1984 spill near Longview, Washington that dumped of oil into the Columbia River.