Sentence examples for worst spills from inspiring English sources

She pointed out: "… did you know that the Valdez spill wasn't even one of the top 10 worst spills in history?

But to keep things in perspective, this spill would have to continue gushing at this rate for 200 days to break into the top 10 worst spills ever, and for more than a year to enter the top five.

A pipeline rupture near the heart of Alberta's oil sands has spewed 5-million liters of bitumen, wastewater, and sand, in what is being described as one of the worst spills in Canadian history.

It is the worst spill in US history.

It was the worst spill ever on the North Slope, and once again, the cause was preventable.

Eleven people were killed and about 4.9m barrels of crude oil leaked into the Gulf in the worst spill in US history.

We now know, of course, that this is the worst spill in U.S. history, that instead of 1,000 barrels a day, something in the range of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day have likely been spewing into the gulf.

The worst spill in American history has affected insurance rates for deepwater drilling around the world and has also had a knock-on effect on marine liability rates because of potential pollution, said Amlin's chief executive Charles Philipps.

After weeks of gut-churning market losses, shareholders were dealt another blow Wednesday when BP announced that it would suspend paying dividends for the rest of the year and establish a $20 billion fund to pay claims arising from the worst spill in American history.

It was the worst spill in Nigeria in 13 years in a part of that country where the oil and gas industry has been despoiling the environment for more than 50 years, on a scale that dwarfs the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico by a wide margin.

Peter Exley, from the wildlife charity, told BBC News this was the "worst spill" involving the substance.