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.
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