How many people lost the jobs because of the bp oil spill 2010?

Answer 1

This is a very difficult to estimate.

The most directly impacted was the fishing industry. This includes commercial and recreational fishing. I could not find an estimate of how many workers were laid off. Wikipedia gives an estimated economic impact. Many in the fishing industry were hired by BP to use their boats to skim oil, making it difficult to determine the number of lost jobs.

The tourist industry was impacted. People cancelled vacations because beaches were closed. Restaurants reported people feared eating seafood. The number of jobs lost is not easy to calculate, because the country was in an economic recession, and so many tourist spots were going to see fewer customers because of the economy.

Also, the numbers of lost jobs is difficult to determine, because temporary jobs were created to clean up beaches and in other areas.

Finally, jobs were lost as the US Federal Government refused to permit deepwater exploratory drilling. I don't consider this a direct result of the spill, but what the government thought was necessary to avoid further accidents. Some of these jobs will be lost for a long period, as rigs leave the Gulf of Mexico to drill in other locations.

A lot of estimates of the economic impact of the spill on the economy, have been printed in the media, typically in the tens of billions of dollars range. See related link.

Answer 2

there were about 30000 people that lost there job in the oil spill