jueves, 23 de abril de 2020

'Of course it could happen again': experts say little has changed since Deepwater Horizon | Environment | The Guardian

'Of course it could happen again': experts say little has changed since Deepwater Horizon | Environment | The Guardian

A man lays oil0absorbent boom as oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacts Cat Island in Barataria Bay, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, in 2010.

Deepwater Horizon ‘could happen again’

Ten years after an explosion on a seafloor well killed 11 workers and spilled oil across the Gulf of Mexico, experts say that a similar disaster could happen at any time. The US government has slashed safety regulations that had been implemented in the wake of disaster at the Deepwater Horizon rig — the largest single accidental release of oil and gas into the ocean. “Of course it could happen again, and I think one of the things of most concern is that our ability to control a spill is pretty much the same as it was ten years prior,” says Frances Beinecke, who has served on an independent commission that investigated the disaster.
The Guardian | 8 min readRead the review article in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

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