BP has said that they are burning 30 million cubic feet of natural gas a day.
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This could refer to any of:Gulf War Oil SpillBP Deepwater Horizon Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill 20101979 Ixtoc I Gulf of Mexico oil spill.See related questions.
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The Gulf Oil Spill, also known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, effectively ended in September 2010 when the well was successfully capped. However, the broader impacts of the spill continued to be felt for years, as cleanup efforts and environmental recovery took much longer. The official capping of the well marked the end of the oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
About 24 million gallons of oil have been skimmed from the Gulf of Mexico so far.
set aside 20%, its treated as income.
$14,000,000,000 was spent to clean up the oil
it would affect the fishing industry because all of the fishes would die from the oil spill.
Drilling in the gulf was halted to prevent more oil spills. It was believed that current security systems and/or regulations were not working, and that the temporary delay it would take to fix the system would give the system time to fix itself while it handled a major oil spill. Oil spill handling systems were already taxed due to having to handle the BP oil spill, and it was believed that the handling of another spill at the same time would be very poor and cause much damage.