Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of power exploration: drilling five thousand feet beneath the surface from the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.
Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came house to roost. An explosion followed by a huge fireball resulted in eleven lives lost, the sinking from the rig, and also the release of millions of barrels of crude oil into 1 of the world’s prime fishing grounds: tens of thousands and thousands of barrels suffocate the Gulf’s waters, and also the resultant slick covers 2,500 square miles. Wildlife all through the region is devastated, and so is the human community dependent on harvesting the area’s resources.
Now, OR Books has joined with the Natural Sources Defense Council to release In Deep Water, the initial guide to appear on this environmental catastrophe, the largest offshore spill in American history.
Written by Peter Lehner, executive director of the NRDC, together with Bob Deans, this guide provides a brief account of the disaster as well as the policy failures that caused it––and lays out a blueprint to avoid similar catastrophes in the future.
PETER LEHNER, executive director from the National Sources Defense Council, also teaches environmental law at Columbia University Law School. Chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office for eight many years, he produced and led the environmental prosecution unit for New York City.
BOB DEANS, author from the River Where America Started: A Journey along the James, was the chief Asia correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other Cox newspapers, and he spent eight many years covering the White Home. He is a former president of the White Home Correspondents’ Association.
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