Earlier this month BP released an internal report into its spill in the Gulf of Mexico, deflecting much of the blame for the disaster onto rig owner Transocean and contractor Halliburton.
The SPR is stored in a series of massive underground salt domes on the U.S. Gulf Coast, immediately adjacent to several internal energy transport hubs.
R. headache to deal with but also a serious loss of trust in the marketplace (BP shares have tumbled to almost half their value since April 21), an internal battle to restore employee confidence and all the fallout of the spill for those along the Gulf of Mexico.
Another paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine calls chronic Lyme a "functional somatic syndrome, " similar to other nebulous ailments like Gulf War Syndrome, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.