"America's offshore oil and natural gas industry is even safer than before, but our goal will always be zero accidents and zero spills," said Charlie Williams, the group's executive director.
Of the 14 runs, 8 featured at least one spill.
"All it takes is one spill, and we're toast," she said.
One spill occurred on the Xiangjiang River when a botched environmental cleanup released cadmium into a 100-km (60-mi) stretch of the river in Hunan province.
Mr. Roper said the nine spill seeps that Xinhua cited were not from new leaks but were residual oil and drilling mud from a June 17 spill that were now migrating to the surface.
But it held that in one spill, near the village of Ikot Ada Udo, the local subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria, was liable for damages — as yet unspecified — to one farmer.
He also said that of the 1.6 million gallons of oil, salt water, and other pollutants spilled from the wells on UT land, five spill sites were still being cleaned up. .
"A lot of them make a good living and make a good deal of money, but they're one spill away from their career and possibly their lives ending," Gathagan said.
For example, during 2006 2007, seven spill incidents were reported (NYSDEC 2009b).
As such, where the Ministry of Health was initially only focused on Kampala and two spill over districts, UNICEF was able to use the data from mTrac to immediately identify 27 additional districts that were already reporting epidemic levels," says Sean Blaschke, UNICEF Uganda Health Specialist.
There were scrapes with other jockeys and two spills that could have ended her career.
