Sentence examples for small spill from inspiring English sources

"People would rather pay less for oil and take the small risk that there may be a small spill," Adam said.

That may seem excessive for a relatively small spill, estimated at 1,000 barrels a day, but too much is better than too little.

This information is especially relevant to the Arctic, where responding to even a small spill would be complicated by ice, forbidding weather and a lack of onshore support.

Cleanup crews with Suncor Energy were trying to contain a small spill near a Denver-area oil refinery on Wednesday after liquid began seeping into a creek this week.

A plethora of newly enacted legislation is designed to avert offshore accidents and to prevent a small spill becoming a big catastrophe should something go wrong.In this section Tough-guy Sarko Losing his grip Roads to ruin Black stuff in a green land High contrast A Macedonian makeover ReprintsMost of Greenland's 56,000 inhabitants seem persuaded.

On Monday afternoon, seventy-two hours after the derailment, the town of Mosier was still clogged with industrial traffic, and its population was fifty per cent larger than usual: some two hundred workers from Union Pacific and a constellation of state and federal agencies were at work on various aspects of the cleanup, including assessing the size of a small spill of oil into the river.

This should be of particular interest to any parents with small, spill-prone children (so, all of them?).

There were only a few small spills in this stage.

■ The probability of small spills is close to 100%.

A fluid spill from the ship's engine room last month, and other small spills, are not of great concern, the agency said.

"Small spills" during oil operations are part and parcel of the business – even in the North Sea, where BP has decades of experience, and established infrastructure.