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The study concluded that the current estimates of human health impacts associated with the oil spill may underestimate the psychological impact in Gulf Coast communities that did not experience direct exposure to oil and that income loss after the spill may have a greater psychological health impact than the presence of oil on the immediately ...
The oil slick as seen from space by NASA's Terra satellite on 24 May 2010. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, releasing about 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m 3) of crude oil making it the largest marine oil spill in history.
The water from the Flint river is used mostly for agricultural purposes, while the water from the Chattahoochee is used mostly for municipal purposes. Florida depends on the freshwater of the Apalachicola River to mix with the salt water of the Gulf of Mexico in Apalachicola Bay. The $70 million oyster industry in Florida is concentrated in ...
[263] [264] [265] The U.S. Travel Association estimated that the economic impact of the oil spill on tourism across the Gulf Coast over a three-year period could exceed approximately $23 billion, in a region that supports over 400,000 travel industry jobs generating $34 billion in revenue annually. [266] [267]
President Obama speaking in the Oval Office about the spill. On 30 April 2010, President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to delay issuing new offshore drilling leases until a thorough review determined whether more safety systems were needed [1] and authorized teams to investigate 29 oil rigs in the Gulf in an effort to determine the cause of the disaster. [2]
On 25 May 2010, BP gave Florida $25 million to promote the beaches where the oil had not reached, and the company planned $15 million each for Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The Bay Area Tourist Development Council bought digital billboards showing recent photos from the gulf coast beaches as far north as Nashville, Tennessee and Atlanta ...
Donald Vidrine, who was the ranking BP representative on Deepwater Horizon, citing ill health refuses to testify at Coast Guard hearing into the accident. [115] July 22; Ships and personnel leave the spill site as Tropical Storm Bonnie approaches. [116] [117] NOAA reopens one-third of closed area of Gulf to fishing. [118] July 24
Odyssey tanker shipwreck and oil spill, off the coast of Nova Scotia, November 1988; Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 1989; Gulf War oil spill into the Persian Gulf, January 1991; MT Haven explosion and oil spill of the coast of Italy, April 1991; ABT Summer explosion and oil spill off the coast of Angola, May 1991