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This 5 page paper provides a brief overview of this oil spill. It then discusses leadership, actions of officials, any conflicts between corporate and government leadership, political issues and what Homeland Security learned. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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lakes and inland seas. There are always environmental risks with offshore drilling. Accidents are very rare with this activity. When accidents do happen, though, they can lead to massive
destruction. This is what happened in 2010. BPs offshore drilling rig was located 52 miles off the Port of Venice in Southeast Louisiana. On April 20, 2010, BPs Deepwater Horizon
oil rig blew up and took the lives of 11 workers. Oil was leading at a rate of at least 25,000 gallons every day for about two months. Over the
months, more than 200 million gallons of oil would be leaked along the coastline and into the ocean. Oil would eventually impact the coastlines of several states-Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and
Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was decimated as the oil followed thousands of miles along the coast, killing marine life, birds, and other life. Leadership during the spill Man-made
disasters always lead to finger-pointing but in this case, the fault clearly lay with BPs crew. Numerous leaders were involved in responding to the accident from corporate leaders to local
leaders to federal leaders. The public just wanted to know what was going to be done about it. Diane Sawyer interviewed Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen on June 8, 2010
at which time the oil had been spilling for 50 days. He said that the federal government had taken aggressive actions but admitted they could do more (Blackburn, 2010). He
said that a quicker response was needed when oil was spotted. The problem involved having too many fingers in the pot. The Admiral showed a chart that showed 13 different
agencies plus three sub-departments involved in the response efforts (Blackburn, 2010). There were too many agencies and too many officials going in different directions. Another issue had to do with
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