Sentence examples for spill year from inspiring English sources

In what I hope is the far-flung future, when some latter-day Gibbon writes a multi-volume e-book chronicling the decline and fall of the American empire, 2010 will surely be a watershed – or, rather, an oil spill – year.

A Dutch court will soon hear a case brought against Shell by other Niger Delta villagers following a major oil spill years ago.

Most of their 2010 harvest was over when the spill happened.Mr Feinberg last week announced a more generous calculus that will give affected oysterers depending on where their beds are—up to seven times their income from a pre-spill year, plus four times their 2010 losses.

The Niger Delta, where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface, has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates.

A huge Australian oil spill last year in the Timor Sea caused angst in Indonesia and East Timor.

Nigeria, for example, has had a major oil spill every year since 1969, observes Lisa Margonelli of the New America Foundation, a think-tank.

His final years were marred by a succession of devastating accidents an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery in 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others, and an oil spill a year later that dumped 4,800 barrels of oil at Prudhoe Bay, on the coast of Alaska.Mr Hayward set out to replace flash and fluff with nuts and bolts.

RP Siegel is the co-author of Vapor Trails, the eco-thriller that tells the story of the spill a year before it happened.

Although these spills were individually small, it was estimated around of PCE were spilled each year.

The Coast Guard responds to something like fifteen hundred oil spills a year.

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