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Gulf Oil Spill Facts
Everyday there is new information on the Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the greatest man-made environmental disaster in the nation’s history. Amid the recent updates of President Obama’s speeches on the calamity, BP’s financial responsibility or the current status of the oil stoppage efforts, the facts of the spill can get lost or worse yet, forgotten.
* Here are some of the most salient facts about the Gulf Oil spill:
- Date of occurrence: April 20, 2010
- Location: Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico
- Number of lives lost: 11
- Number of workers injured: 17
- Number of birds affected: 1,993 birds killed or injured (according to the National Wildlife Foundation as of 6/28/10)
- Number of claims received by BP: 80,000
- Number of payments made by BP: 41,000 totaling $128 million
- BP’s loss of market value: $100 million
- Cost of rescue efforts paid by BP: $2.65 billion
- What rescue efforts costs are going to: Spill response, containment, relief well-drilling, grants to Gulf states, claims paid, and federal costs
- Number of state shorelines affected: 4 states
- Owner of Deepwater Horizon Drill: Transocean
- Company responsible for cementing and installing the well’s casing: Halliburton
- Number of hours following explosion it took for the burning Deepwater Horizon platform to sink: 36
- Number of gallons of oil spilled as of mid-June: 73 to 126 million
*These statistics are current facts and figures as of June 28, 2010.
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June 29th, 2010
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In June, with critics comparing the Gulf to Hurricane Katrina, Obama announced the “British Petroleum” oil spill the “worst environmental disaster the US has ever faced”. America’s grubby politicians, green-lobby tub-thumpers, compensation claimants and their mega-bucks lawyers went completely ballistic every night on prime-time TV. However with more than 4,000 oil wells in the Gulf, the ecosystem is used to seepage, the light oil dissipated quickly in its warm waters, and powerful currents from the enormous Mississippi Delta swept much of it away from the shore. Today the pristine beaches are back to normal but Obama’s poisonous remarks have wiped £45 billion off the value of BP, damaged millions of US and UK pensions, and wrecked the tourist trade.