BP Oil Spill and Energy Policy A MODERN PERSPECTIVES BOOK Tamra B Orr
Chapter 1 Miguel Hernandez Online Investigator 4
Did you see those poor birds my sister Theresa asked They are so covered in oil they can’t swim fly or dive I could tell she was upset We all were Each night my family and I gathered around the television to watch the latest update on the huge oil spill happening in the Gulf of Mexico We had been shocked by the horrible explosion at sea and the loss of so many lives Then we were appalled at the hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil that just kept pouring into the water day after day Clearly people were working hard to fix the horrible leak but it was taking so long too long for so much of the ocean’s plants and animals More than 200 million gallons of crude oil was leaked into the Gulf of Mexico 5
