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Oil Spill Response
A number of advanced response mechanisms are available for controlling oil spills and minimizing their impacts on human health and the environment. The key to effectively combating spills is careful selection and proper use of the equipment and materials best suited to the type of oil and the conditions at the spill site. Most spill response equipment and materials are greatly affected by such factors as conditions at sea, water currents, and wind. Damage to spill-contaminated shorelines and dangers to other threatened areas can be reduced by timely and proper use of containment and recovery equipment
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Dispersant use during the BP Deepwater Horizon...
Editor's Note: This article is excerpted directly from National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, "The Use of Surface and Subsea... More »
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Stopping the spill: the five-month effort to...
Editor's Note: This article is excerpted directly from National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, "Stopping the Spill: The Five-Month... More »
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Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the...
Editor's Note: This article is excerpted directly from National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, "Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Spill and... More »
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Coastal and clean up concerns: BP's drilling...
Date of Video: Aug. 16, 2010 Tim Robbins narrates the ongoing series documenting the environmental issues and coastal community concerns in the wake of the BP drilling disaster.... More »
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Oil spill impacts on coastal wetlands of the...
Date of Video: Jun. 3, 2010 LSU professors and wetland ecologists, Dr. Irving Mendelssohn and Dr. Karen McKee, answer questions about possible oil spill effects on wetlands,... More »
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Exxon Valdez lessons applied in Gulf Coast...
Date of Video: Dec. 3, 2010 Techniques used after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill—such as washing sand and returning it to beaches—are helping to clean Gulf of Mexico... More »
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What are booms? (1:24)
Date of Video: Jun. 21, 2010 Ocean Conservancy director of conservation sciences Stan Senner explains what oil booms are and how they are working in the Gulf of Mexico. More »
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The oil spill's toxic trade-off (17:14)
Date of Video: Jun. 28, 2010 Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that's grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows... More »
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Marine Mammals
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Marine Mammals Marine Mammals at Risk in the Gulf of Mexico Stock assessment reports compiled by the National Marine Fisheries Service... More »
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill: coastal wetland and...
Last Updated on 2012-08-21 at 22:07
Editor's Note: This article is excerpted directly from the Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, "The Deepwater Horizon... More »
Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of...
Last Updated on 2012-08-16 at 07:00
Editor's Note: This article is excerpted directly from National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, "Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Spill and... More »
Arctic offshore oil exploration spill response planning
Last Updated on 2012-05-13 at 11:30
Worldwide, oil and gas companies are being forced by resource declines to drill in less accessible areas, and the Arctic is their newest frontier.
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Oil and water just don't mix
Last Updated on 2011-10-17 at 05:29
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