Like Goodwin, Hayward has been extraordinarily deaf to the public outrage over the BP spill.
The Elgin is in shallower water than the BP spill, which could make problems easier to fix.
Finally, the BP spill has presented an unprecedented challenge as an emergency environmental response and a long-term restoration effort.
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Which is the exact same thing we are seeing with the BP spill.
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The DOD decision is a blow to Americans in a region still reeling from Hurricane Katrina and the BP spill.
The area is along the northern reaches of Barataria Bay, which was heavily affected by oil from the BP spill in 2010.
Natural gas and oil drillers have been hammered since the BP spill.
In addition to the command center that we have operational in Robert, Louisiana, we are opening a second command center in Mobile, Alabama, for the BP spill.
Populist ire over the BP spill came from both sides of the aisle, and any further mishaps by the industry are likely to elicit the same response.
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The BP spill will generate a bewildering array of claims and chains of causation, possibly including future cancer cases claimants will blame on the carcinogens in oil.
Look for these questions to be repeated, more insistently, in the days ahead as lawyers who many believe have been cut out of the BP spill mount their counterattack.
Whether we face an immediate, emergency situation like the BP spill, or the gradual accumulation of challenges and degradation, our responsibilities to address the problems and find solutions are exactly the same.
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Like the 1986 NASA disaster, investigations of the BP spill are starting to point toward complex and sophisticated technical systems that failed because of overlooked problems, which, in turn, exacerbated the situation in unanticipated ways.
The BP spill on the U.S. Gulf Coast was a different type of environmental disaster but conservatively was no worse than what happened in Ecuador and arguably much less impactful because it was cleaned up so quickly.
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The Times describes how 546 million gallons of oil have gushed into the delta over the last five decades (the BP spill is currently estimated at 2.5 million gallons a day), leaving lifeless, crude-blackened swamps in an area that once teemed with shrimp and crabs.
And in the case of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BlackRock engaged not only BP, but all the other public companies involved in the costly disaster such as Halliburton.
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During the summer disaster of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Tony Hayward and the folks at BP forgot to care about people and seemed to devote themselves to worshipping at the altar of profit.
The Keystone XL Pipeline has the potential for an environmental catastrophe similar to the BP oil spill.
And they gave me an update on our efforts to stop the BP oil spill and mitigate the damage.
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The BP Oil Spill remains an intensely interesting and important story, impossible for mere mortals to ever clearly convey.
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It was just like his belated, ineffectual response on the BP oil spill.
After the BP oil spill, the administration put a moratorium on an already anemic record of approving deep-water drilling permits.
The first to enter public awareness was during the BP oil spill.
But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again.
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Over the past several months, the health of U.S. energy stocks has largely mirrored the path of political uncertainties surrounding the BP oil spill.
Achenbach argues that a series of minor failures and misunderstood interdependencies, combined with the extreme conditions of deep water drilling caused the BP Oil Spill.
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Other questions focused on the Alternative Investment Market, the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty, and the impact of the BP oil spill on British pensions.
The Senate is now poised to act before the August recess, advancing legislation to respond to the BP oil spill and create new clean energy jobs.
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Most Americans would not want news of the BP oil spill delivered by a man wearing pink suede shoes or a velvet dinner jacket.
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