Sentence examples for significant spills from inspiring English sources

There are still more than 100 significant spills each year — a trend that dates back more than 20 years.

The two oil companies jointly own the Sapref refinery, outside Durban in South Africa, which is blamed for 24 significant spills, pipeline ruptures and explosions since 1998.

A widely cited independent study in 2011, authored by John Stansbury, an engineering professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, found that TransCanada had significantly underestimated the likely number of significant spills (defined as those greater than 50 barrels) over the XL's lifetime.

Here's a great article from Madeline Ostrander, which asks, "can opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline bring conservatives back to conservation?" She details the independent risk assessment compiled by a civil engineer from Nebraska, which predicts that Keystone XL could have 91 significant spills over the next 50 years — eight times as many as TransCanada suggested.

But it spent only $171,801 responding to significant spills, explosions and breakdowns on pipelines that transport oil, gas and other hazardous materials during the same period.

Among other things, the analysis concludes that while TransCanada has estimated that the proposed Keystone XL expansion pipeline would experience 11 significant spills of more than 50 barrels, or 2,100 gallons, of crude oil over a 50-year lifespan, "a more realistic assessment is 91 significant spills".

The oil is under tremendous pressure as it comes out of the ground, amplifying the possibility of a significant spill.

"It's a significant spill, if for nothing else because of its impact on the water supply," Commander Ben-Iesau said.

Glen Cayley, Shell's technical director in Britain, also said that it was a "significant spill in the context of annual amounts of oil spilled in the North Sea".

A significant spill of firefighting foam at Brisbane airport has contaminated nearby waterways, killing fish and prompting warnings to recreational anglers.

Meanwhile there has been a significant spill of coal ash from a storage pond at a closed Duke Energy plant near Wilmington, N.C.