Black tide : the devastating impact of the Gulf oil spill /

We cannot allow the BP disaster to be pushed from public view the way BP used chemical dispersants to hide the oil. These remarkable stories, of loss, heroism and culpability, are a vivid reminder that this catastrophe will be with us for decades, and that we have not yet made the changes necessary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Juhasz, Antonia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon
  • What you can't see can kill you: the BP Macondo oil monster escapes
  • Body count: oil, gas, and dispersant attack the people, wildlife, and wild places of the Gulf
  • When the oil kills the fish, can the fishers survive?
  • Making BP pay: cleanup workers, vessels of opportunity, claims, and protests
  • Big oil plays defense: BP and the oil industry respond to disaster
  • Obama steps up: but is the disaster over and could it happen again?