{"id":547509,"date":"2010-04-29T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.southernstudies.org,2010:\/\/5.12244"},"modified":"2010-04-29T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:48:04","slug":"spill-baby-spill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547509","title":{"rendered":"Spill, baby, spill!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oil_slick.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Date of the explosion and fire onboard Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: 4\/20\/2010<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Distance of the rig, which was being used by BP, from the Louisiana coast when the disaster occurred: 41 miles<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Size of the crew at the time of the blast: 126<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Number of crew members who remain missing: 11<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Date on which a lawsuit was filed by a missing worker’s wife claiming negligence on the part of Transocean, BP and Halliburton, which was cementing the well when the explosion occurred: 4\/27\/2010<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Number of deaths associated with offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico since 2001: 69<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Number of injuries: 1,349<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Number of reports issued by the U.S. Minerals Management Service documenting non-compliant offshore drilling operations: 150<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/b>Time period during which MMS said it saw “no discernible improvement by industry” in terms of safety: 7 years<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Frequency with which MMS wants operators to have their safety programs audited: every 3 years<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Number of letters oil companies have sent protesting the proposed regulations, citing the expense: over 100<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Profits earned by BP in 2009: $14 billion<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Number of oil spills of over 2,100 gallons that have occurred in the Gulf over the past decade: 172<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s current estimate of the amount of oil being leaked from the Gulf disaster site: 5,000 barrels a day<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Factor by which that surpasses the previous estimate: 5 times<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Square miles the slick is now covering: more than 2,200<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Date on which cleanup crews conducted a “controlled burn” to help reduce risks from the oil slick: 4\/28<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Date on which official forecasts say the oil slick may begin impacting the Louisiana shoreline: 4\/30<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Number of Louisiana fishermen who packed a meeting this morning to help pinpoint locations for oil containment rings: nearly 200<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Rank of the threatened area among those with the largest total seafood landings in the lower 48 states: 1<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Percent of the nation’s wild shrimp crop the area produces: 50<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Number of species put in harm’s way by the spill: more than 400<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Current estimated cost of the disaster: at least $1 billion<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

(Click on figure to go to the original source.)<\/i><\/p>\n

(Satellite radar image of the Gulf oil slick, the black blob in the lower right corner, is from the SkyTruth blog<\/a>; it was taken April 26 by the European Space Agency.)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of the explosion and fire onboard Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: 4\/20\/2010 Distance of the rig, which was being used by BP, from the Louisiana coast when the disaster occurred: 41 miles Size of the crew at the time of the blast: 126 Number of crew members who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}