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Any way you look at it, it's a massive spill, why couldn't they turn this off? – Keith Stewart	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's tough to get excited about the commodities, with Canada having so many of them, given what's going on with China, Greece, commodities depend on robust world wide demand, and we don't have that right now...It's affecting things like Canadian banks, which I always view as a reflection of what's going on with the economy and the spill-over effects. – Ian Nakamoto	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am very doubtful we can have a ratification vote before the end of this year, we are thinking this is going to spill over to 2016 and this opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities. – Mireya Solis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Refugio Oil Spill has been a dramatic wake-up call, reminding us how destructive and dirty oil can be. – Hannah Beth Jackson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
In the wake of last month’s devastating oil spill, we cannot afford to wait any longer to permanently ban new oil drilling off our coast. – Mike McGuire	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have been in regular contact to with NOAA. The agency is analyzing the trajectory of the Manhattan beach tar and the Refugio Spill to see if there is any possible way this could have come from the Refugio Spill. – Petty Officer Michael Anderson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The timing, location, and nature of the lesions support that oil compounds from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused these lesions and contributed to the high numbers of dolphin deaths within this oil spill's footprint. – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Santa Barbara is probably the single worst location on the planet anybody could choose for an oil spill, since the '69 spill, people have just been waiting to pounce on the oil industry. To have the spill here, this company is profoundly unlucky. – Eric Smith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a horrible place to have an oil spill. – Linda Krop	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In some areas of the country there are real rumblings beneath the surface, pockets of misery, that have the potential to spill and blow up into something. – Middle East	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We continue to see it's not a question of if there is going to be an oil spill but when ? – Maggie Hall	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's no question the spill had tremendous effect on oyster production in Louisiana and Mississippi, but it's hard to say what exactly was caused by the oil and what wasn't, there's no smoking gun. – Chris Nelson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Sean was always the one to spill the beans, he was a cop from an early age. – Joe Rodgers '	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you think you’re going to clean up an oil spill in the Bay of Fundy, you better hope it happens in the morning on a summer day that’s not foggy when there’s no current, otherwise, good luck. – Dave Thompson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If there's a worse place to look for oil, I don't know what it is, there aren't any proven effective ways of cleaning up an oil spill in the Arctic. – Niel Lawrence	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The great irony of Democrats celebrating fissures amongst Republicans in recent years is that historically they're much less capable of confronting the extreme elements within their party than the GOP, now we're watching several years of pent-up liberal aggression about to spill into divisive primaries that will undoubtedly complicate things considerably for their Senate chances. – Josh Holmes	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We would deliberately challenge superstitions, at 13:13, I would stand under a ladder. We'd have a fake black cat( I'm allergic to real ones.) , and break a mirror and spill salt while standing on a crack. We like to have control in our lives, and it's very discomforting that bad things happen that we can't control, so we try to find ways to control these bad things. Superstition gives us a sense of being in control. – Forest University professor	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind. – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They could have been more on top of it, as soon as there was a spill, they should have told everybody. – Whitney Schipman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If my family's a victim, how can I prosecute somebody for causing that spill or allegedly causing that spill? how can I be fair or impartial? – Robert Allen	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Our concern is that if (oil prices) stay low is that we eventually see that spill over into our other revenue sources: personal income tax, consumption tax, motor vehicle taxes, we do have a large part of our economy that is tied directly or indirectly to energy. – Ken Miller	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The federal government’s turning a blind eye as offshore fracking threatens to poison our beautiful beaches and coastal waters, we need offshore fracking stopped immediately before chemical contamination or an oil spill devastates California’s coastal communities and kills sea otters and other endangered marine wildlife. – Miyoko Sakashita	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We need offshore fracking stopped immediately before chemical contamination or an oil spill devastates California’s coastal communities and kills sea otters and other endangered marine wildlife. – Miyoko Sakashita	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground. – Margaret Mead	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Any way you look at it, it's a massive spill, why couldn't they turn this off?

– Keith Stewart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's tough to get excited about the commodities, with Canada having so many of them, given what's going on with China, Greece, commodities depend on robust world wide demand, and we don't have that right now...It's affecting things like Canadian banks, which I always view as a reflection of what's going on with the economy and the spill-over effects.

– Ian Nakamoto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am very doubtful we can have a ratification vote before the end of this year, we are thinking this is going to spill over to 2016 and this opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities.

– Mireya Solis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Refugio Oil Spill has been a dramatic wake-up call, reminding us how destructive and dirty oil can be.

– Hannah Beth Jackson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In the wake of last month’s devastating oil spill, we cannot afford to wait any longer to permanently ban new oil drilling off our coast.

– Mike McGuire

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have been in regular contact to with NOAA. The agency is analyzing the trajectory of the Manhattan beach tar and the Refugio Spill to see if there is any possible way this could have come from the Refugio Spill.

– Petty Officer Michael Anderson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The timing, location, and nature of the lesions support that oil compounds from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused these lesions and contributed to the high numbers of dolphin deaths within this oil spill's footprint.

– National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Santa Barbara is probably the single worst location on the planet anybody could choose for an oil spill, since the '69 spill, people have just been waiting to pounce on the oil industry. To have the spill here, this company is profoundly unlucky.

– Eric Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a horrible place to have an oil spill.

– Linda Krop

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In some areas of the country there are real rumblings beneath the surface, pockets of misery, that have the potential to spill and blow up into something.

– Middle East

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We continue to see it's not a question of if there is going to be an oil spill but when ?

– Maggie Hall

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's no question the spill had tremendous effect on oyster production in Louisiana and Mississippi, but it's hard to say what exactly was caused by the oil and what wasn't, there's no smoking gun.

– Chris Nelson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Sean was always the one to spill the beans, he was a cop from an early age.

– Joe Rodgers '

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If you think you’re going to clean up an oil spill in the Bay of Fundy, you better hope it happens in the morning on a summer day that’s not foggy when there’s no current, otherwise, good luck.

– Dave Thompson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If there's a worse place to look for oil, I don't know what it is, there aren't any proven effective ways of cleaning up an oil spill in the Arctic.

– Niel Lawrence

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The great irony of Democrats celebrating fissures amongst Republicans in recent years is that historically they're much less capable of confronting the extreme elements within their party than the GOP, now we're watching several years of pent-up liberal aggression about to spill into divisive primaries that will undoubtedly complicate things considerably for their Senate chances.

– Josh Holmes

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We would deliberately challenge superstitions, at 13:13, I would stand under a ladder. We'd have a fake black cat( I'm allergic to real ones.) , and break a mirror and spill salt while standing on a crack. We like to have control in our lives, and it's very discomforting that bad things happen that we can't control, so we try to find ways to control these bad things. Superstition gives us a sense of being in control.

– Forest University professor

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.

– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They could have been more on top of it, as soon as there was a spill, they should have told everybody.

– Whitney Schipman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If my family's a victim, how can I prosecute somebody for causing that spill or allegedly causing that spill? how can I be fair or impartial?

– Robert Allen

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Our concern is that if (oil prices) stay low is that we eventually see that spill over into our other revenue sources: personal income tax, consumption tax, motor vehicle taxes, we do have a large part of our economy that is tied directly or indirectly to energy.

– Ken Miller

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The federal government’s turning a blind eye as offshore fracking threatens to poison our beautiful beaches and coastal waters, we need offshore fracking stopped immediately before chemical contamination or an oil spill devastates California’s coastal communities and kills sea otters and other endangered marine wildlife.

– Miyoko Sakashita

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We need offshore fracking stopped immediately before chemical contamination or an oil spill devastates California’s coastal communities and kills sea otters and other endangered marine wildlife.

– Miyoko Sakashita

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

– Margaret Mead

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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