Oil Spill Quotes

• Si preguntas a los peces si prefieren una marea negra o una temporada de pesca, no me sorprendería que votaran por otra marea negra.

  Carl Safina

  Science, Fishing, Oil

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• El Golfo de México es un océano muy grande. La cantidad de volumen de petróleo y dispersante que estamos vertiendo en él es ínfima en relación con el volumen total de agua.

  Tony Hayward

  Océano, petróleo, agua

  "El jefe de BP admite que su puesto está en juego por el vertido de petróleo en el Golfo". Entrevista con Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. 14 de mayo de 2010.

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• I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.

  Joe Lieberman

  Mean, Trying, Accidents Happen

  "Lieberman on Gulf Spill: “Accidents Happen” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2010.

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• I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

  Tony Hayward

  Thinking, Impact, Environmental

  "The spilling fields". "Background Briefing" with Wendy Carlisle, www.abc.net.au. July 4, 2010.

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• The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Ocean, Water

  "Regime SWAT Teams Sent to Gulf". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Apr 29, 2010.

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• What the hell did we do to deserve this?

  Tony Hayward

  Hell, Spills, Deserve

  "BP’s Slick Greenwashing" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. May 4, 2010.

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• It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Long, Size

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• We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

  Van Jones

  Oil, Global Warming, Plant

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• Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Suffering, Horizon

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• BP ha puesto más pájaros en el petróleo que el Coronel Sanders.

  David Letterman

  Oil, Bird, Colonels

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• We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

  Billy Nungesser

  Years, Two, Oil

  "Gulf oil spill: 'Everybody's lost hope'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 31, 2010.

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• You can't have oil without oil spills.

  Markwayne Mullin

  Oil, Spills

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• From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

  Rick Perry

  Stupid, Republican, Oil Drilling

  "Perry: Oil spill may be 'act of God'". Rick Perry's speech at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, www.politico.com. May 3, 2010.

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• This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Opportunity, Oil

  "Mayor: Port needs new permit to host Shell oil-drilling fleet" by Daniel Beekman, www.seattletimes.com. May 4, 2015.

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• The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami.

  David Letterman

  Oil, Mexico, Miami

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• Después del vertido de petróleo, tuve la fuerte sensación de que si alguna vez tenía la suerte de tener hijos, no quería que mis hijos me vieran echando gasolina en una gasolinera. Creo que es nuestra responsabilidad hacer los cambios que necesitamos independientemente de la conveniencia.

  Alyssa Milano

  Fuerte, Niños, Bendito

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• You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.

  Doug Rader

  Years, Waiting, Thousand

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• There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Color, Culture, Blindness

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

  Carol Browner

  Country, Oil, Environmental

  "Gulf oil well still gushing". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. May 31, 2010.

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• BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company. In response, Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that's ruining the ocean.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Ocean, Oil, Fake

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• They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

  Billy Nungesser

  Oil, Black, Said

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• La perforación extrema en aguas profundas no es la opción preferida para satisfacer las necesidades energéticas de nuestro país, pero sus protestas y demandas y mentiras sobre la perforación en tierra y en aguas poco profundas han bloqueado zonas más seguras. Os está pasando factura. El trágico vertido de petróleo sin precedentes en aguas profundas del Golfo lo demuestra.

  Sarah Palin

  País, Tumbado, Aguas Profundas

  "Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR - Now Do You Get It?". www.facebook.com. 2 de junio de 2010.

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• Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Ice, Oil

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• The day that we've been fearing is upon us.

  Bobby Jindal

  "Jindal: 'The Day We've Been Fearing Is Upon Us'", www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Catástrofes como terremotos, tsunamis, volcanes, inundaciones, vertidos de petróleo y lluvia radiactiva causan la muerte masiva de personas, cerdos, murciélagos y aves. Estas catástrofes también afectan a la salud inmunitaria de los supervivientes. Todos albergan virus.

  Paul Stamets

  Impacto, Volcanes, Cerdos

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" por Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. 15 de septiembre de 2012.

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