... way. Many plants and animals are endangered, or are now extinct. One of the well-known oil spills to occur was when the Exxon Valdez went aground and covered 4,800 square miles in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This spill killed 35,000 sea birds, 10,000 otters, and at least nine whales. The spill left pools of oil up to three feet ... local shrimp nurseries and wildlife refuges. In February of 1990, 300,000 gallons leaked from a damaged tanker off Southern California, fouling miles of shoreline. In the Niger River delta, in Nigeria, Shell pipelines have repeatedly burst. In 1970 oil spil...

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... On April 20, 2010, an explosion and sinking of one of their oil rigs called the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico about 50 miles southeast of the Mississippi River delta caused one of the worst oil spill in U.S history. This oil spill resulted in severe environmental, health and economic ... consequences and serious legal and public relations repercussions for BP. Eleven workers lost their lives and experts claimed the oil spill covered about 42 miles of the ocean floor of the coast Louisiana. The Ocean Portal Team in their article, 'Gulf Oil Spill', states, "by the time ... ...

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