May 1, 2010

Oil Spill- Disaster

Posted on 5:37 PM by Blogging Now

At the Gulf of Mexico, BP America owned oil barrels leaked into the Gulf causing outrageous amounts of disaster. This horrendous incident was caused by the sinking of a BP oil rig, which caused an underwater oil gusher. The consequence of the this disastrous event are the deaths and harm of precious wildlife. The oil company, BP, has put inadequate resources to help fix this mess. In fact, company's official had said earlier that it was possible last week to stop the oil before it reached the land. They have clearly fail to a accomplish this and the amount of  oil spilling out is only more likely to go up. “It is clear that after several unsuccessful attempts to secure the source of the leak, it is time for BP to supplement their current mobilization as the slick of oil moves towards the shore,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in response to BP's laziness. Geoffrey S. Morrell, deputy assistant secretary of defense, announce in a statement that BP would be held accountable for the cost of the department’s deployment. I think that this should have been quickly cleaned by the officials at BP, and I am very disappointed at the lack of responsibility shown by the company. The BP representatives then try to blame the governments slow response to the situation. While this is true, the company had actually deemed the leek minor and said that clean it would be easy. There is in fact a law that was passed a year after a similar incident in 1989 caused dubbed the Exxon Valdez disaster which holds the owner of a rig or vessel responsible for cleaning up a spill. 

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