2010 Oil Spill 10 June BP Spill Updates From Gulf of Mexico

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Many should know that one of the things that aeroplanes cannot carry is oil as it is too heavy. Thus, oil spill often occurs when accidents happened when oil is transported by ship over long distances.

On Saturday, June 12, Day 53 of Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers and about 650,000 gallons of oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well a day.

What are the problems caused by the oil spills?

Loads of problems!

The tension between US and Britain, which President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister David Cameron that his frustration over the oil spill is not an attack as the two leaders tried to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the disaster. Cameron’s office said that the two leaders held a ‘warm and constructive’ telephone conversation which prime minister expressed his sadness at the ongoing human and environment catastrophe but stress BP’s economic importance. However, Obama recognized that BP is a multinational company and that frustrations about the oil spill have nothing to do with national identity.

Alabama’s beaches took their worst hit from the oil spill on as brown crude slathered beaches along the coast. On the beach, as much as 4 inches deep of crude oil hit the beach in waves and the surf was a dark, ugly shade of brown. The beaches that normally are packed with people this time of year were virtually deserted. Stinking, dark piles of oil dried in the hot sun, extending as much as 12 feet from the water’s edge for as far as the eye could see. This reduces the country income as tourists avoid coming to the beaches.

The worst problem will be the rising prices of fish worldwide! As United State shrimpers who comb seas unaffected by the oil-slickened Gulf are raising prices as demand for their catch rises, bringing a potential respite from some tough years. Fisherman in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Texas, whose waters have not been affected by oil, say prices for their shrimp have gone up as processing plants that normally buy Gulf seafood turn to other docks for their supply. The federal government has declared fishery disasters for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida which could emergency payments for commercial fishermen.

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