NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from...
Drilling rig and production platform spills rose over the past two decades, largely because of the BP blow-out.
“It is evident that regulatory changes, advances in science and technology, and attention to safety would have helped to make North American waters less polluted with oil” without the Deepwater Horizon spill, the report said. “Overall, I think they have done a very comprehensive job,” said Anthony Knap, director of the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group at Texas A&M University, who was not an author or reviewer.
Increases in urban land area, population and vehicle ownership make an increase “plausible ... but it is unclear by how much,” the report said. “We have more techniques to measure the seeps,” but those two areas are the only ones with data, she said. Laws and regulations after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989 near its namesake Alaska town account for much of the difference in tanker spills, Tikka said.
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