Connor Coughlin BP oil spill

Connor Coughlin
4/3/11
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BP Oil Spill

One of the world disasters that occurred in the last 5 years that affected me

was the BP oil spill on April 20, 2010. It was an offshore drilling accident in the Gulf

of Mexico that resulted in one of the biggest leakage of oil in decades. It has been

the reason for the declining health of the Gulf. A year ago beaches were swelling

with oil surrounding beaches in Florida, Louisiana, created a dead zone in the mouth

of the Mississippi River. Not only has nature suffered, but financials as well. BP

(British Petroleum) suffered many accusations for faulting the oil spill, gas prices

have gone up forcing prices at the pump to rise. So how this event affects me? The

BP oil spill affects me in different ways, for a while I couldn’t go to the west coast of

Florida and go on a beach for fear of being drenched in oil. Also fish that are fished

in the Gulf had to be inspected extra carefully to make sure they weren’t toxic, but

for me that’s something in the back of my head that I’m eating a fish that was

swimming in oil not water, not comfortable eating that. Even though the next point

isn’t a negative affect on me but was a sight not everyone would see was, while

flying back from Las Vegas we passed over the Gulf of Mexico at night in the middle

of the recovery. They were burning the oil on top of the water so there were flames

boasting out you could see on the black water spread out over hundreds of miles. If

it wasn’t so bad for the environment and animal habitats, it wouldn’t be bad to

watch because it was so neat to observe.

-Connor