BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Inevitable or a Regulatory Problem?
BP Oil Spill Tar Balls Reach Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain
BP Purchasing Kevin Costner’s Oil Clean-Up Machines
Gulf Oil Spill Containment Dome a Bust – Now What?
BP Oil Spill Timeline - Ongoing Disaster
BP Considering 'Static Kill' - Pumping Mud into Well - To Seal Oil Leak
BP Stops One Oil Leak As Oil Slick Continues Towards Shore
Fishermen Helping With BP Oil Spill Clean-Up Becoming Ill
Louisiana Shrimp Season Opens Amid Oil Spill Health Concerns
Possible Storm May Worsen Gulf Oil Spill Situation
Despite BP Oil Spill Disaster, Federal Appeals Court Says ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
Subsurface Oil from BP Oil Spill Disappearing
White House Defends Offshore Drilling Plan even after oil spill disaster
New BP Containment Cap in Place
Coast Guard “Cautiously Optimistic” That BP Top Hat Operation is Working
National Oil Spill Commission Begins Public Meetings
While BP hopes its latest containment cap will at least greatly reduce the amount of oil gushing from its ruptured well, the government’s National Oil Spill Commission will begin its task of investigating the causes of the BP oil spill and whether offshore drilling is even a viable process.
Yesterday, the presidential commission held the first of many public meetings. The biggest question is why an oil company such as BP with the resources to develop deepwater drilling technology wasn’t also able to develop effective oil spill response technology.
One National Oil Spill Commission co-chairman points out that the problems currently encountered trying to clean up the BP oil spill are the same as those for the Exxon Valdez oil spill 20 years ago. These include skimmers and booms not designed to work in open ocean, and dispersants so toxic it’s a crap shoot whether to use them at all.
The National Oil Spill Commission has six-months to come up with answers to why the BP oil spill happened. One answer is clear, though. BP gambled that their profitable safety short-cuts would not affect the well’s performance. Obviously, they lost that bet. And so did the Gulf ecosystems.
Recommended for Further Reading:
- BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Inevitable or a Regulatory Problem?
- BP Oil Spill Tar Balls Reach Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain
- BP Purchasing Kevin Costner’s Oil Clean-Up Machines
- Gulf Oil Spill Containment Dome a Bust – Now What?
- BP Oil Spill Timeline - Ongoing Disaster
- BP Considering 'Static Kill' - Pumping Mud into Well - To Seal Oil Leak
- BP Stops One Oil Leak As Oil Slick Continues Towards Shore
- Fishermen Helping With BP Oil Spill Clean-Up Becoming Ill
- Louisiana Shrimp Season Opens Amid Oil Spill Health Concerns
- Possible Storm May Worsen Gulf Oil Spill Situation
- Despite BP Oil Spill Disaster, Federal Appeals Court Says ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
- Subsurface Oil from BP Oil Spill Disappearing
- White House Defends Offshore Drilling Plan even after oil spill disaster
- New BP Containment Cap in Place
- Coast Guard “Cautiously Optimistic” That BP Top Hat Operation is Working
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