This infographic, published by Travel Insurance, illustrates exactly how much oil has spilled in the 10
biggest disasters across the globe, including how it occurred and under what circumstances.
Not exact matches
With more than a decade of experience, Akiko has covered some of the
biggest stories
across Asia and the U.S. Prior to joining CNBC, Akiko was a Tokyo - based correspondent for ABC News, where she led network coverage of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear
disaster in Japan.
BP PLC, the world's third -
biggest publicly traded energy company — and fourth -
biggest public company of any kind — flirted with annihilation this year after a deadly explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20 and the environmental
disaster that spread
across the Gulf of Mexico in the four months that followed.
Across almost every
disaster I have responded to, I have heard church leaders say something like this: «The
biggest blessing since the
disaster has been the volunteers.
The
disaster stopped life in its tracks for many
across the state, including Louisiana's second -
biggest school system: East Baton Rouge Parish.
They lived amongst folks like the Bassetts (
across the road), Liberal P.M. John Turner (just up the road... a neighbour), Donald MacDonald (Liberal Finance Minister, who I almost ran over one day with my 1961 Corvette while he went jogging past my girl's driveway as I pulled in... could've been a
disaster... fiberglass doesn't stand up well when impacted by hefty pissed - off Liberal Finance Ministers), as well as other
big - shot, high - profile lawyers.