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BP Website Dedicated to Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup News

BP Oil Spill I don’t think I’m alone in realizing the magnitude of the disaster that is the Gulf of Mexico BP Oil Spill. Efforts never seem thorough or quick enough in times like these, and the whole thing quickly devolves into a federal-level disaster of disappointment and mismanagement on the one hand, and then a marketing crash course where it always seems like the corporation at fault puts more effort into cleaning up their reputation than into cleaning up the oil spill.

If you’re with me, then you want answers. I don’t necessarily trust BP themselves to give me the full truth, but starting on their dedicated website to up to the minute news of how the cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico is at least a start. Keep up to date on Google news using keyword searches that look something like: “BP Spill Gulf of Mexico” or “Oil Cleanup Updates BP Spill Gulf” for example.

BP Oil Website Link: Gulf of Mexico Response by BP

In the meantime, here is a link to BP’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Website. It’s called Gulf of Mexico response and should at least provide you with ongoing details of how they are trying to solve the crisis, and how those solutions are playing out.

Obama and US Administration Defend Actions in Continuing BP Oil Spill Mess

Gulf of Mexico BP Oil Rig

Gulf of Mexico BP Oil Rig

Obama administration officials convened today and subsequently defended British Petroleum’s use of dispersants, the most recent solution to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Assistant administrator at the EPA’s special office on Research and Development Paul Anastas went before the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, and offered as consolation the fact that much consideration was given before moving to seemingly drastic measures such as the use of dispersants. According to the Anastas testimony, “…when you look at all of the tools to combat this tragedy… dispersants have been shown to be one important tool in that toolbox.”

Later, the director of the Office of Response and Restoration at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offered the analogy wherein dispersants were like an intensive chemotherapy session, being used to treat a disaster that is fast moving and most likely fatal, just like an aggressive cancer and its necessary treatment. Taking time out for long-term research, but that represents the long term plan, while immediate and proactive, aggressive action still needed to be taken in order to curb the disaster that looms in the Gulf. Continue reading