Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future
of Offshore Drilling, Report to the President, January
2011
Publisher: National Commission on the BP
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
Description: Published by the National Commission
on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore
Drilling.
“The document released Wednesday by the
presidential commission investigating last spring’s
oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is a riveting and
chilling indictment of “systemic failures”
throughout the oil business and of the federal
agencies that allowed themselves to be captured by
the people they were supposed to regulate.”
— New York Times, January 7, 2011
“What the commission has done is put together
the most comprehensive narrative of what happened,
both before and after the April 20 event. The
commission has employed excellent investigators and
has presented its findings in a clear, readable,
insightful tale.”
— Joel Achenbach, Achenblog, Washington Post,
January 6, 2011
On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing
the lives of 11 men and beginning a catastrophe that
sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled
nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of
Mexico. The spill disrupted an entire region’s economy,
damaged fisheries and critical habitats, and brought
vividly to light the risks of deepwater drilling for oil
and gas—the latest frontier in the national energy
supply. Soon after, President Barack Obama appointed a
seven-member Commission to investigate the disaster,
analyze its causes and effects, and recommend the
actions necessary to minimize such risks in the future.
The Commission’s report offers the American public
and policymakers alike the fullest account available of
what happened in the Gulf and why, and proposes
actions—changes in company behavior, reform of
Government oversight, and investments in research and
technology—required as industry moves forward to meet
the nation’s energy needs.
ISBN Number: 978-0-16-087371-3
Year/Pages: 2011: 392 p.; ill.
Price:
$39.00
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Deep Water: The Gulf Oil
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Report to the President, January 2011 |
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