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Tag Archives: Oil Spill
Oct
4
2010
Oil damage serious, but not permanent
April 20, 2010, was a day like any other. Business people went to work, children went to school, the sun shone, and, out in the Gulf of Mexico, an oil rig went about its daily work of drilling underwater wells for oil recovery. Unfortunately, that complacent normalcy could not last.
More than a year ago, in February 2009, British Petroleum plc (BP) filed a plan for possible problems for its Deepwater Horizon oil rig. It concluded that problems would be unlikely, and, as stated in the plan, “due to the distance to shore (48 miles) and the response capabilities that would be implemented, no significant [...]
