Oil Spills in Gulf of Mexico and in Niger Delta

ON 20 April, 2010, disaster struck in the Gulf of Mexico, when an oil rig owned by British Petroleum Oil Company (BP) exploded, killing 11 of its workers. More than eight weeks after, all efforts, both by the US government and the oil company, to plug the leak from the blow-out well have yielded no fruitful dividends. It is estimated that a conservative 3.5 million barrels of crude have emptied into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico since of the occurrence of the disaster, described by the US President, Barack Obama, as “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.”.....More »