BP Oil Spill

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/10/04/627m-in-gulf-oil-spill-recovery-projects-approved/16714763/

Over $700 millions were spent on the pass year due to BP Oil Spill. The spill has caused the closed of beachfront hotel, gulf course destruction, destroy of barrier islands, and many more. In 2011, BP payed $1 billion toward the coastal restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/04/24/corexit-bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-effects-marine-life

The cause of cancer and developmental disorders are from a chemical that is mixed in with the crude oil. Corexit, created by BP, is a substance that contains over 100 of chemicals. It was meant to help the oil quickly disappear form the human's eyes, which it did, but result negatively toward the environment. There are two types of Corexit, 9500 and 9527. Corexit 9527 is more toxic and it contains polyclinic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) when it combines withe crude oil. All these mixtures were caused by wave action and wind turbulence. According to the BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley, he stated that without the use of this chemical, crude oil is much more dangerous. However, study as shown that bacteria can consume oil and decomposed it, but it takes app. 30 years. Dudley used the comparison of crude oil to dish soap that it both destroyed that environment and that Corexit makes everything better by not having it appear in your backyard. In addition, the level of hydrocarbons in seafood has increased by 3000x higher than what human should be consuming. This shows how dangerous the chemical is. Not only the food source is affected, but the water beneath 30 feet of sea level as well. Scott Porter and his divers traveled down to part of Florida to collect a sample of the crude oil. It has caused them sea sick and they have witnessed redish-brown color objects like little pieces everywhere floating in the ocean. There were no life underneath that water. The water was dead.