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A 3 page paper that reports the number of barrels leaked. The paper explains the biological issues of the spill, such as effect on sea life and the ecology of the region. Data are included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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drilling has also been done in lakes and inland seas. There are environmental risks related to finding and producing the hydrocarbons that are in rock formations. Accidents are rare
but when they happen, they can be massive. BPs offshore drilling rig lies in the Gulf of Mexico, 52 miles Southeast of Louisianas port of Venice. On April 20, 2010,
BPs Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up. Eleven workers were killed. The rig was leaking 25,000 barrels of oil every day for six weeks. By the third day, the spill
had reached the Mississippi Delta. Eventually, this oil spill would impact the coastlines of Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana,, thousands of miles. Initially, nobody really knew why the leak
happened. They finally decided that a methane bubble had escarped from the well, went up the drill column, expanded, and went through a number of the main seals At
that point the rig exploded (Anonymous, 2010). Many different methods to stop the leaks were attempted. By the time the leaks were stopped, more than 200 million tons of oil
had seeped into the ocean with many of those tons reaching the shores of these four states. The spill affected over 1,000 miles of coastline (Center for Biological Diversity, 2011)
and wetlands along the coasts. BPs first response to contain the oil spill was to dump about two million gallons of dispersants into the ocean (National Wildlife Organization,
2010). These chemicals are supposed to disperse the oil so over a wider area so that the impact is minimized but dispersants have their own toxic chemicals (Park et al.,
2010). The full impact of these chemicals is unknown. The Center for Biological Diversity estimated that the oil spill harmed more than 8,000 birds, about 28,000 marine mammals, like dolphins
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