The state-owned oil company PetroPeru is responsible the horrific spills that poured 3,000 barrels of oil into Amazon.
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Two new lawsuits say Shell is liable for oil spills that have destroyed livelihoods, contaminated water supplies.
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The water supply and delicate ecosystem have been contaminated by multiple oil spills in the Amazon.
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BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill killed 11 workers and gushed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days (around 210 million gallons), the granddaddy of all marine oil spills. It may still be leaking. The oil ruined beaches in Louisiana and Florida, wrecked fishing industries and tourism, devastated wildlife populations and continues to cause serious illnesses among children along the coasts. The economic consequences were well over $100 billion. BP paid a big fine.
Seven million liters of Corexit were sprayed from airplanes following the spill.
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As investigators learn that the latest 101,000 gallon oil spill in California was due to the pipeline owner allowing the pipe to degrade to the thickness of an American nickel, a peer reviewed study published in PLOS ONE states that because of BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, bottlenose dolphin mortality rates have skyrocketed.
As if we needed another reason to turn to alternative fuels with the enormous dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico still lingering due to BP Oil’s refusal to clean up their mess, pictures have come in from the oil pipeline rupture near Santa Barbara that initially sent 21,000 gallons (of a total 101,000 gallons released) of crude oil into the Pacific Coast waters – an incident that happened in late May.
Surely the photos below do not lie about the total lack of safety precautions on the California shoreline where the latest oil spill has occurred. Santa Barbara beaches are now the site of two catastrophic oil spills, the first having occurred in 1969. That one was partially credited for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, so bad was the damage to the seashore and aquatic ecosystems.
Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast (Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) by Gaius PubliusThoreau once wrote, "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us." The full quote is:
