Oil Spill Causation and the Deepwater Horizon Spill

TheApril 20, 2010,BPDeepwater Horizon blowout riveted citizen and elected officials' attention on coastal oil spills in ways not seen since the ill-fated 1989ExxonValdezcrisis. A commonly voiced lament included why was the tragedy not prevented? Why the seemingly poor safety practices and who is to blame? Could a spill of such catastrophic proportion happen elsewhere in the future? Applying a spill prevention causation framework developed through the examination of other major near-shore incidents over a 23-year period, the author finds Deepwater Horizon exhibited a pattern of shortcomings evident in these other spills. These shortcomings are rooted in policy imperfections, a weak regulatory regime, organizational deviance in lieu of integrity, and interorganizational structure deficiencies

Blame · Causation · Deepwater horizon · Environmental protection · Geography · Oil spill · Political science · Shore · Law · Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation · Psychology · Risk and Safety Analysis · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology · Geology · Oceanography

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