Despite admiral’s claims, fire booms that might have lessened oil spill not required equipment 0
Despite admiral’s claims, fire booms that might have lessened oil spill not required equipment
There appears to be nothing in federal law that requires BP or any other oil company to have such booms on hand during drilling or production activities in U.S. waters, despite fire booms being labeled as a primary first-response option in federal documents.
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Caution required for Gulf oil spill clean-up, bioremediation expert says 3
Caution required for Gulf oil spill clean-up, bioremediation expert says
A bioremediation expert says extreme caution must be used in cleaning up the fragile Gulf Coast ecosystem in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Oil is a biological product that can be degraded by microbes, whereas detergents used to clean up oil contaminated sites can make a bad situation even worse.
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