The Gulf Study Four Years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill:

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study (GuLF) is a long term health study with over 100,000 participants composed of oil spill cleanup workers and volunteers who responded to the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The NIEHS held a teleconference on April 11^th to update members of the media, the public and study participants on the progress of the study. This post provides a summary of the call, including a review of progress made and preliminary observations. Go to: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2014/5/spotlight-gulf/index.htm

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UPDATE: See the comment section for an additional recommended source of information.

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One more source of information about the general recovery from the major spill incident is this recent CRS report.

From the Homeland Security Wire, April 23 — Scientists: Deepwater Horizon exposed gaps in deepwater oil spill knowledge

On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a national team of scientists warns that inadequate knowledge about the effects of deepwater oil well blowouts threatens scientists’ ability to help manage comparable future events.

See also the Homeland Security Digital Library post on April 20th  for 3 sources of information about the spill and its aftermath.

Some ground level truth, via Huffington Post, April 27.

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(1) A Review of the year in photos  — some of the results are good, some are bad.  See these pictures provided by the Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4, 2012.

(2) Some scientific results re bacteria that ate the oil:  Spill Study Explains How Bacteria Cleansed Gulf; Wall St. Journal, Jan. 9, 2012.

(3) From the LicartaRisk co. a report on what BP did wrong re risk management. Jan. 10, 2012

(4) In a NY Times opinion piece, writer Joe Nocera has some kind words for BP and thinks it has been a “responsible party.”

Related articles

• BP Going After Halliburton For Gulf Spill Costs (forbes.com)

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See the document at this location:
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-OILCOMMISSION/content-detail.html

Here is one summary of the results from the WSJ. Sept. 15.

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Deepwater Horizon: One Year Later, covered in an interview in The Atlantic, April 20, 2011, with author of new book on the topic. One excerpt:

You write that “as Bush blew 9/11’s possibilities, Obama is blowing this blowout.” In light of the President’s recent “Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future,” what lessons has he learned from the disaster, one year on, and how has he exploited them?

I’m a little bit less certain about my answer to that question. What Obama has learned is of course subject to being thwarted by the Congress. He seems always to be cautious about appearing too strident and trying to throw lots of bones to the opposition, to quietly peddle a wiser, longer-term vision. I personally wish he wouldn’t do that. The people who voted him in voted him in because we—I’ll say we—were really sickened by what had preceded him and what the Republicans were doing in Congress and in the White House, and we really wanted big, bold change, the kind of change that candidate Obama was talking about. I think we still want that, and his kind of soft-peddling the boldness and the change only makes the people who hate him hate him more, and the people who support him support him less.

I’m still looking for a fight out in the open. I wish he would continue to articulate a very clear vision about moving forward—about building the energy infrastructure, the smart grid that we would need, the new energy technologies that we would need, and creating an environment for new investors that would be much more conducive—so that American companies are not going to Germany and China to do this work.

So I’m a little less sure of what my answer is to what he has learned. I would rather that he would come out and tell us. I suspect that he knows and thinks all the right things, but his approach to the politics makes him look more hesitant, and then the actual politics make him a lot less able to implement his vision. But he’s not articulating a clear vision that at least half the country, who would be inclined to rally around him, can rally around.

Three more  articles, who of which feature graphics,  are listed below.

1. One Year After the BP Spill: What’s Changed and What Hasn’t, by Amy Harder, National Journal. April 19, 2011
2. http://www.nationaljournal.com/pictures-the-gulf-oil-disaster-one-year-later-20110419
3. http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/The+Gulf+coast+one+year+after+the+spill/G2173

Related Articles

• Deepwater Horizon victims’ families mark first anniversary of oil spill (guardian.co.uk)
• The BP Oil Spill, One Year On: Forgetting the Lessons of Drilling in the Gulf (time.com)