Sentences with phrase «disastrous effects of an accident»
Its opponents — which include numerous anti-fracking groups and high - profile «intervenors» such as New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Gasland director Josh Fox, and actor - activist Mark Ruffalo — focus instead on the environmental and community impacts of fracking and the potentially disastrous effects of an accident, should it occur along the densely - populated end of the pipeline's route.
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In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists from Drexel University and Deakin University, in Australia, have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron nitride nanosheet, that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents — a trait that could make it an important technology for quickly mitigating these costly accidents.