Go back in time with the real time accounts of the 2010 Gulf oil spill as they were happening. The links below will take you on a journey to more than 400 hard hitting articles on the worst oil spill disaster in American history.
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Or you can start at the beginning Obama announces plans for offshore drilling
2010 Gulf oil spill time line from present to the beginning:
Deepwater Horizon: Oil spill disaster destined to be repeated
Oil spills are not accidents. The lives lost in oil spill disasters are not intended or planned, but calling the root cause of oil spills an accident is far from accurate. As more details emerge about the events that led up to the BP oil spill catastrophe, it becomes obvious that multiple warning signs were ignored before the explosion that killed eleven men the night the Deepwater Horizon exploded. A closer look at other oil spill disasters reveals that the each one could have been avoided if safety had not been placed ahead of profits, and regulations already in place were enforced and adhered to.
If the oil drilling industry continues to work around oversight and safety rules, each oil spill is likely to get progressively worse until one day, the world will encounter a truly unstoppable leak.
“The BP Deepwater Horizon blowout may have been caused by an unstable cement mix brewed by Halliburton, the company hired to seal the BP leased Macondo oil well. However, information gathered from testimony at the President’s Oil Spill Commission show that Halliburton may have made false claims about the stability of their cement mixture.”As the quest for black gold takes oil drilling rigs deeper into the oceans of the earth, safety becomes more imperative. But deeper drilling also means higher costs, so the tendency to cut corners to save money also increases.
If the oil drilling industry continues to work around oversight and safety rules, each oil spill is likely to get progressively worse until one day, the world will encounter a truly unstoppable leak.
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Oil spill testimony: Deepwater Horizon spill was not an accident
Panel blasts Obama Administration for hiding BP oil spill data
Obama Administration involved in cover up of Gulf oil spill disaster
Deepwater Horizon hearings reveal critical testimony against BP
Subpoena power in BP oil spill investigation blocked by Senate Republicans
BP collecting more than $9B in US Government contracts
BP news: Oil spill claims not being paid
BP finally kills Deepwater Horizon oil spill well but damage to Gulf remains
BP finally reaches target with relief well, cement begins to flow
Transocean, Halliburton deny fault in BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill blame game
BP blowout preventer in FBI custody
BP blowout preventer: A witness against BP
2010 Oil spill conspiracy theories: True or false?
BP dispersant: The Agent Orange of the Gulf oil spill disaster
As of August 5, the government reported collecting a total of 3,606 dead birds, 508 dead sea turtles and 67 dead mammals from the Gulf. Collected and actually killed are two different things. The real numbers are likely to be considerably higher.
There is a lot to hide beneath the Gulf oil spill disaster, and a lot of financial motivation to hide it. So much so, that reports have suggested that BP oil spill whistle blower Matt Simmons may have been assassinated by BP, the CIA or both, instead of conflicting reports that he either died of a heart attack, or drowned in his tub.
Lawsuits and a pending criminal investigation by the US Attorney General’s office against BP will likely result in judgments totaling billions of dollars. But what if the US government was also found to be liable because of unenforced safety regulations? Could damages bankrupt the US Treasury?
“With BP having poured nearly two million gallons of the dispersant known as Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico, many lawmakers and advocacy groups say the Obama administration is not being candid about the lethal effects of dispersants, ” according to Democracy Now.
EPA whistle blower Hugh Kaufman said, “These dispersants were used in massive quantities, almost two million gallons, to hide the magnitude of the spill and save BP money. The government—both EPA, NOAA, etc.—have been sock puppets for BP in this cover-up. By hiding the amount of spill, BP is saving hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in fines, and so, from day one, there was tremendous economic incentive to use these dispersants to hide the magnitude of the gusher”
Kaufman added, “Congressman Markey made the BP and government put a camera down there to show the public the gusher, and when they did that, experts saw that the amount of oil being released.…was magnitudes greater than what BP and NOAA and EPA were saying….. People who work near [Corexit] are hemorrhaging internally, but the EPA now is taking the position that they really don’t know how dangerous it is..… for example, in the Exxon Valdez case, people who worked with dispersants, most of them are dead now. The average death age is around fifty. It’s very dangerous, and it’s an economic protector of BP, not an environmental protector of the public.… We know there is a cover up. "
During a hearing on the oil spill disaster, Senator Barbara Makulski (D- Maryland) referred to BP's chemical dispersants as the “agent orange” of the Gulf oil spill disaster.
No doubt it will take some time for the truth to come out on BP’s use of chemical dispersants – as it inevitably did with Agent Orange.
