The effectiveness of BP's online outreach and its overall $ 50 million PR blitz is another question entirely, since it's up against the reality (and the imagery)
of millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico (plus, it's up against its own CEO's big mouth).
He is still illegally exempting dangerous offshore oil drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico from all environmental review
as millions of gallons of oil gush into the ocean.
Contrast that to Transocean's activities in North America, where the company owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in 2010, killing 11 men and
causing millions of gallons of oil to leak into the Gulf of Mexico.
As millions of gallons of oil spew out of the Gulf, and much of it threatening to make landfall on his state, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has called for... more offshore drilling.
The Obama administration has issued new rules governing offshore drilling, six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 rig workers and
spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Twenty - six days after the BP oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent collapse, which has resulted in the leakage
of millions of gallons of oil into the ocean and an untold amount of environmental damage, the latest
Nation The Obama administration has issued new rules governing offshore drilling, six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 rig workers and spewed
millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Nobody who has noticed
the millions of gallons of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico courtesy of BP will be stumped by the question implied in the title of this book.
For more than half a century, 17
millions of gallons of oil have been oozing beneath Greenpoint, Brooklyn, courtesy of ExxonMobil and other oil companies.
When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pipe blew out seven years ago, beginning the worst oil spill in U.S. history, those in charge of the recovery discovered a new wrinkle:
the millions of gallons of oil bubbling from the sea floor weren't all collecting on the surface where it could be skimmed or burned.
Pouring
millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.