The Keystone XL Pipeline has the potential for an environmental catastrophe similar to the BP oil spill.
The spill, which Hayward himself called an environmental catastrophe, fouled large portions of the coastline in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.
It is the first time Lebanon has faced an environmental catastrophe on such a large scale, with marine fauna and flora also badly affected.
The 20-mile long oil slick reached the Cornish coast in a few days triggering a massive environmental catastrophe including the death of over 25, 000 sea birds.
Freezing temperatures in eastern Bolivia (normally above 68 degrees Fahrenheit) killed millions of fish in three major rivers, and the freeze was viewed as an environmental catastrophe.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, toured the power plant, to question the need for nuclear energy and raise alarms about a potential environmental catastrophe.
Even in Florida cities that were starting to see a fragile housing recovery, a relatively distant environmental catastrophe was enough to tip the market in the opposite direction.
As a result, these rivers now diminish to a trickle before they reach the Aral Sea, which has shrunk to about two-thirds of its former size, creating an environmental catastrophe.
Exxon Mobil walked away from its Blackbeard West well when temperatures and pressures became so great that there was fear in the corporate headquarters of another Exxon Valdez type of environmental catastrophe.
Here is a selection of log entries that illustrate just how the Coast Guard grappled with a deadly maritime explosion that turned from a search-and-rescue operation to environmental catastrophe in a space of days.
"Because of this ongoing environmental catastrophe, we need to put all of the management options on the table to try to find ways of reducing the rate at which our biodiversity succumbs to the impacts of invasive alien species, " he says.
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