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Keywords
Beaches
British Petroleum (BP)
Cleaning
Day
Diggers
Disasters
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oceans (campaign title)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil spills
Oiled beaches
Outdoors
Toxics (campaign title)
Oil Clean-up Operations in Louisiana
Scenes from the tiny community of Grand Isle on the Louisiana gulf coast near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The beach is closed to the public as clean-up workers scrap oil and tar balls from the sand. The BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded on April 20 and sank after burning, leaking record amounts of crude oil from the broken pipeline into the sea.
Unique identifier:
GP0240O
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
05/07/2010
Locations:
Gulf of Mexico
,
Louisiana
,
North America
,
United States of America
Credit line:
© Chuck Cook / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster
Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform disaster. The BP (British Petroleum) leased oil platform exploded on April 20 and sank after burning, leaking an estimate of more than 210,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers died during the disaster.
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster (Photo & Videos)
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