The threat by a prosecutor to impose huge fines on Chevron, an American oil firm, and jail its executives after a small leak off the coast of Rio de Janeiro earlier this year raises concerns about the treatment of foreigners.
Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.
On Saturday BP announced that after a few hours of testing they had pulled the box off the leak.
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It???s usually best to use the incident of a specific leak as a jumping-off point for discussions on how to prevent future recurrences, rather than trying to affix blame for the leak that???s already occurred.
The rig sank two days later, setting off an oil leak that has since released around 85, 000 barrels of oil into the Gulf.
And I think about Ty'Sheoma Bethea, the young girl from that school I visited in Dillon, South Carolina a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop teaching six times a day because the train barrels by their classroom.
In order to determine the location of the leak, the crew had been sealing off small peripheral modules of the space station while Mission Control looked for accelerated pressure drops inside the sealed-off sections.
Introduction of this newly designed "normally-off" memory circuit with no passes for current to leak into cuts leak current to zero in both operation and standby without any specific power supply management.
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She dashes off toward a little square of brown grass to take a leak.
But he said it was impossible to confirm whether they had drifted from the site of the leak, about 550 miles (885km) away, or had dropped off one of the ships carrying collected oil to Texas to be processed.
One plane had a cracked cockpit window, another had a fuel leak and a third plane made an emergency landing after a smoke alert went off.
And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor.
The pressure in the capped-off well could blow a new hole in it, letting oil and gas leak out through the seabed.
Having slipped past a Nato base on its way to a patrol mission off the US coast, K-19's nuclear reactor springs a leak.
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