A Sea in Flames - Carl Safina [150]
9 Relief wells could take two months and that the relief well will cost $100 million H. Mohr and Cain Burdeau, “Coast Guard Considers Lighting Oil Spill on Fire,” Associated Press, April 28, 2010; http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/28/oil-spill-gulf/.
10 Misreported: 4.2 million barrels could spill C. Burdeau, “La. Gov Declares Emergency over Gulf Oil Spill,” Associated Press, April 29, 2010; http://www.salon.com/news/2010/04/29/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion_5.
11 A BP executive agreed on 5,000 barrels a day “Shrimpers, Fishermen File Suit over US Oil Spill,” Agence France-Presse, April 30, 2010; http://www.mysinchew.com/node/38400.
12 Going from “manageable” to “emergency,” Landry’s “ample time” C. Woodward, “A Containable Accident, Then Suddenly a Crisis,” Associated Press, April 30, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10513415.
13 “Shrimpers sue” “Shrimpers, Fishermen File Suit over US Oil Spill,” Agence France-Presse, April 30, 2010; http://www.mysinchew.com/node/38400.
14 Administration might revisit president’s drilling announcement C. Woodward, “A Containable Accident, Then Suddenly a Crisis,” Associated Press, April 30, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10513415.
15 “Controlled burns,” and the relief well will cost $100 million H. Mohr and Cain Burdeau, “Coast Guard Considers Lighting Oil Spill on Fire,” Associated Press, April 28, 2010; http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/28/oil-spill-gulf/.
16 “Eventually, things will return to normal” H. Mohr and Cain Burdeau, “Gulf Businesses Wait as Oil Creeps Toward Coast,” Associated Press, April 29, 2010; http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/
6978731.html.
17 Ixtoc killed hundreds of million of crabs J. Achenbach and David Brown, “In Gulf Oil Spill’s Long Reach, Ecological Damage Could Last Decades,” Washington Post, June 6, 2010; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/06/05/
AR2010060503987.html?hpid=topnews.
DÉJÀ VU, TO NAME BUT A FEW
1 Histories of antecedent oil spills, in part, from: Joanna Burger, Oil Spills, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
2 Amoco Cadiz J. Achenbach and David Brown, “In Gulf Oil Spill’s Long Reach, Ecological Damage Could Last Decades,” Washington Post, June 6, 2010; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/05/AR2010060503987.html?hpid=topnews.
3 “First the money dried up” A. Allen, “Prodigal Sun,” Mother Jones, March–April 2000; http://motherjones.com/politics/2000/03/prodigal-sun.
4 Exxon Valdez otter, bird, and seal deaths C. H. Peterson et al., “Long-Term Ecosystem Response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill,” Science 302, December 19, 2003: 2082–86.
5 Great Britain’s Health and Safety Executive warning to Transocean R. Mason, “Transocean Denies Bullying Oil Rig Workers over Safety Fears,” Daily Telegraph (London), September 8, 2010; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/7987815/
Transocean-denies-staff-bullied-over-safety-fears-in-North-Sea.html.
6 September 14, 2007, letter L. Kaufman, “2010 Agency Is Faulted for Saying Oil-Spill Risk to Wildlife Was Low,” International Herald Tribune, July 6, 2010; http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-181710108.html.
7 October 2009 environmental assessment K. Sheppard, “License to Drill,” Mother Jones, June 2010; http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/06/new-drilling-leases-gulf-of-mexico.
8 Waxman and Stupak letter to BP B. Bohrer, “Congressmen Cite ‘Significant’ BP Issues in Alaska,” Associated Press, May 6, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10567540.
9 Obama’s coast plan and the Mississippi Delta “Obama Administration Officials Release Roadmap for Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Focused on Resiliency and Sustainability,” White House Press Release, March 4, 2010; http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/Press_Releases/
March_4_2010.
10 The senators’ letter on energy efficiency and conservation R. Schoof, “10 Senate Democrats Oppose Climate Bill If It Expands Coastal Drilling,” McClatchy-Tribune News Service.