Massive Oil Spill 'Welcome Boost' To Economy, Says BP
Source: Newsweek Magazine
BY DAVID BRENNAN ON 4/6/18 AT 7:44 AM
Coastal towns would enjoy an economic boon from a massive oil spill in the Great Australian Bight, BP claimed in newly revealed documents from a 2016 drilling bid.
The oil giant said any cleanup operation following a huge spill would bring a “welcome boost to local economies.” The claim was uncovered via a freedom of information request by the U.K.-based Climate Home News website.
Though it has since withdrawn the controversial plan to drill for oil in the Bight, BP also told the Australian regulatory authority that a diesel spill would be considered “socially acceptable” because “there are no unresolved stakeholder concerns.”
Opponents of the plan feared a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people were killed and up to 68,000 square miles of coastline affected when a well failure sent 210,000,000 gallons of oil spewing into the gulf. The disaster devastated the area’s marine ecosystem, and scientists are still discovering high rates of toxicity, birth defects and population reduction in local marine life.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/massive-oil-spill-welcome-boost-economy-says-bp-874650
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