But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

We can now see the price of oil going out years into the future.

现在我们就可以看得到,未来几年石油的价格

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When Ida was three years old, oil was discovered in the nearby town of Titusville.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Dense areas of deep coral that have taken hundreds of years to grow are located under the oil slick.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Fenton says within three years the cost of large solar plants should be the same as for coal or oil power plants.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"So it could be a couple of years before we see the true impacts of the oil spill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

"There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years.

VOA: standard.2009.05.23

Its founders began oil explorations in modern-day Iran more than 100 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

When Cabot Oil & Gas offered a lease for the natural gas under their land a few years ago, saying that it might drill a single horizontal well nearby, they weren't worried.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"We know that surface use of dispersants decreases the environmental risk to shorelines and organisms at the surface and we know that dispersants break down over weeks rather than remaining for several years as untreated oil might."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"There is a realization at the end of the day that despite all the profits that Russia got from its sale of oil and gas over the last 10 years, that unless it modernizes its economy and reforms it, it will be a declining power."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18