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Four Years Later, BP’s Oil Spill Is Still Killing Gulf Wildlife
It’s been almost four years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion killed 11 people and spilled 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but the effects of the disaster are still being felt by Gulf wildlife
1. Bottlenose dolphins: The report notes that between April 2010 and March 2014, 900 bottlenose dolphins have been found dead or stranded in the northern Gulf. Dolphins’ health has also suffered since the spill, with dolphins that live in and around the oiled region showing signs of anemia and liver and lung disease, as well as an increased number of stillborns. But Inkley also said it was difficult to know exactly how many dolphins — and any other animal — had died as a result of the spill.“We find a very small percentage — usually less that 10 percent — of the animals that die, and that’s going to be true of the Gulf oil spill as well,” he said. “So the impact is certainly much greater than we are visibly seeing by the stranded dolphins that we are able to find.”
2. Atlantic bluefin tuna: The Gulf of Mexico is one of only two places where Atlantic bluefin breed, and the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred during the species’ breeding season. One study noted in the report found that a chemical in the oil that spilled can lead to irregular heartbeats in yellowfin and bluefin tuna, which can lead to heart attack and death for a species whose populations have already plunged in the last several decades due to overfishing.
3. Sea turtles: Like bottlenose dolphins, strandings for the five species of sea turtle that live in the Gulf have remained above normal in the four years after the spill. Each year, about 500 dead sea turtles have been found in the region affected by the spill, and in 2013, about three-quarters of those strandings were the critically endangered Kemp’s ridley turtles, which spend their entire life cycle in the Gulf of Mexico. But it will probably take decades of monitoring to determine how the 2010 spill affected young turtles, due to how slowly they mature, said Pamela Plotkin, director of the Texas Sea Grant.
“For species like the loggerhead turtle that doesn’t reach maturity for maybe 20 or 30 years, we may not see the impact of what occurred in 2010 until 30 years from now,” Plotkin said on the press call.
The report notes that, depending on the result’s of BP’s civic trial, the oil giant could pay up to $14.08 billion into the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund, which will create plans for Gulf ecosystem restoration. Last month, the U.S. government lifted the ban on BP seeking new oil leases in the Gulf, allowing the company to expand its drilling in the region.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/10/3425225/bp-oil-spill-gulf-wildlife/
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I would opine that the amounts of petroleum waste dumped in the air and waters of this earth by the conduct of two major and multiple smaller wars of the 20th century far exceeds that dumped by the Exxon Valdez.
Also, the very fact that there is oil, curd oil, under ground and it seeps out on its own greatly adds to the pollution problems of oil. It's not all caused by man.
since 1850, list all the "natural" pollutants, eg oil seepages, that were on a level with Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon,
So what?
That is what I think of you....So what?
What does your opining matter when it comes to oils spills?
Oil company has been leaking 4,500 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico for 14 years
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Back in September 2004, Hurricane Ivan tore through the Gulf of Mexico.
As a result of this weather phenomenon, a Taylor Energy Company
offshore oil rig platform collapsed into the water, and oil began spewing into the gulf.
The company and the government kept the size of the spill very quiet until around 2015,
when the Associated Press did an investigation that estimated that the Taylor Energy oil rig was leaking at least 91 gallons of oil per day, and had been for more than a decade.
, a new report was released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Florida State University, in which they estimated that
the Taylor Energy Company oil rig had been leaking around 4,500 gallons of oil per day.
This, the report explains, was more conservative than other recent estimates:
“Using sonar technology and a newly developed method of analyzing oil and gas bubbles rising through the water,
scientists determined that the plumes are the result of oil and gas released from multiple wells.”
the Trump administration wants to rollback the oil drilling regulations put in place after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/26/1867500/-Oil-company-has-been-leaking-4-500-gallons-of-oil-per-day-into-the-Gulf-of-Mexico-for-14-years?utm_campaign=trending
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