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BP officials deny that the disease conditions are related to the spill, saying that dolphin deaths actually began being reported before the BP oil spill. [ 198 ] [ 212 ] [ 213 ] By 2013, over 650 dolphins had been found stranded in the oil spill area, a four-fold increase over the historical average. [ 214 ]
In June 2010, Steve Goodie, [121] a comedy musician, wrote parody lyrics to The Doobie Brothers' hit song "Black Water" related to the BP oil spill. "Black Water [BP Version]" also had a YouTube video [122] and was a Top Ten hit on The Dr. Demento radio show. In 2011, Rise Against released a song titled "Help Is on the Way" on their album Endgame.
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]
Cleanup of the BP oil spill. In the weeks and months after the disaster, Mattiford, 59, said representatives from BP fanned out across the area handing out money and hiring people to work on ...
The past week has brought several new developments regarding BP's Great Oil Spill Disaster. Here are some that relate to the legal landscape surrounding the deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion and ...
Bob Dudley, the BP (BP) managing director overseeing the clean-up of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, recently told CBS News that his "top personal priority" is to listen to people's concerns.
BP", concerned the BP oil spill. The New York Times reported that the photograph had been manipulated. The original Reuters photo showed Obama standing close beside two individuals, a Coast Guard admiral and a local parish president; The Economist had excised the other two figures so that Obama appeared to be standing alone.
When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of ...