1. REMEMBERING 2O10’S OIL LEAKS AND SPILLS Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

2. IMPACTED NATIONS USA (Gulf of Mexico states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida) China (Port of Dalion area)

3. OIL LEAKS AND SPILLS GULF OF MEXICO DALION, LIAONING PROVINCE, CHINA

4. “GREAT GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL OF 2010” COASTS OF LOUISANA, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, AND FLORIDA WERE IMPACTED BY A 140-DAY OIL LEAK THAT CAUSED A HUGE ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER APRIL 21- SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

5. THE GULF OF MEXICO DISASTER STARTED BIG AND GREW BIGGER OVER 140 DAYS The leak became a serious long-term threat to fishermen's livelihoods, marine habitats, beaches, wildlife, human health, tourism, and the way of life itself

6. SOCIETAL IMPACTS DURING 2010 IN THE GULF COAST, USA A deep-water oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that continued for over 140 days caused loss of jobs and an environ-mental disaster, cost tens of billions, and changed the life of millions, maybe forever.

7. British Petroleum scrambled to stop the leak by using many techniques, some known to be at the margins of existing capability, in deep water locations, but no one technique was completely successful until the relief well was completed on September 17.

8. OIL RIG EXPLODED IN GULF OF MEXICO: APRIL 21

9. DEEP WATERR HORIZON IN GULF OF MEXICO: APRIL 22

10. DEEP WATER HORIZON: APRIL 22

11. GRAPHIC OF MILE-DEEP UNDERWATER OIL LEAK

12. The mile-deep, underwater leak added an estimated 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf, and fed a massive slick on the surface of the water that eventually impacted the environment, jobs, health, economic stability, and the way of life of the entire gulf coast.

13. NASA PHOTO OF OIL SPILL IN GULF OF MEXICO

14. British Petroleum scrambled to stop the leak by using techniques known to be at the margins of existing capability in deep water locations, but no one technique was immediately successful for a variety of reasons.

15. WORKING AT THE MARGIN OF TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY Use of robots to repair blowout preventers Oil containment booms Controlled Burning Oil skimmers Oil dispersal chemicals Oil containment domes Super tanker, “A Whale” “Top Kill”

16. RESPONSE AND CLEAN-UP OPERATIONS WERE HINDERED BY HIGH WINDS AND WAVES, POLITICAL INDECISION AND DECISIONS, AND THE ARRIVAL OF TROPICAL STORM-HURRICANE ALEX IN THE WESTERN GULF

17. Strong winds and high tides initially complicated the work of emergency crews that began a massive work across the Gulf of Mexico to shut off, respond to, manage the oil leak, and meet the needs of people.

18. INITIAL OIL SHEEN ON WATER

19. OIL SLICK CONTINUES TO GROW

20. OIL REACHES CHANDELEUR SOUND: APRIL 30

21. OIL IN CHANDELEUR SOUND

22. Emergency crews used a number of methods to stop the spread of oil: 1) laying containment booms, 2) burning small contained pools of oil, and 3) spreading chemicals to disperse the oil,,,, but, all of these “good weather” methods FAILED.

23. CLEANUP CREW

24. PLACING AN OIL CONTAINMENT BOOM: MAY 29

25. BOOM CONTAINS SPREAD OF OIL: MAY 29

26. BOOM PROTECTING A SMALL ISLAND

27. CLEAN UP SHIPS FORCED TO ANCHOR DUE TO WIND & WAVES: MAY 1

28. BOOM NOT DEPLOYED DUE TO WIND & WAVES: MAY 1

29. WIND & WAVES REDUCE EFFECTIVENESS OF BOOMS

30. WIND & WAVES BREAK OIL BOOM

31. BP CONSTRUCTS AN OIL CONTAINMENT “DOME:” MAY 4

32. OIL DOME ENROUTE TO SITE OF LEAK: MAY 6

33. BROWN PELICANS AT RISK FROM OIL SLICK

34. NORTHERN GANNET BIRD AFTER BEING CLEANED UP

35. DEAD SEA TURTLE

36. PASS CHRISTIAN, MS: REMOVING DEBRIS FROM BEACH

37. FISHERMEN OUT OF WORK: PERMANENTLY ???

38. LA BATRE, AL: ALL FISHING SHUT DOWN

39. TROPICAL STORM ALEX BECAME A HURRICANE ON WED., JUNE 30

40. HURRICANE ALEX SLOWS RESPONSE AND CLEAN-UP For safety reasons due to the choppy seas created by Hurricane Alex, ships and barges were moved from open waters to sheltered areas and skimming and relief well drilling operations shut down.

41. HURRICANE ALEX “HELPS” BEACH CLEAN-UP Cleanup crews on the LA, MS, AL, and FL beaches were able to wash sand more effectively in locations where the oil had washed ashore as a result of the high tidal surges created by Hurricane Alex.

42. BP said on Monday, July 5 th, that it had spent $3.12 billion USD on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster; in the end, the disaster may have cost $100 billion or more.

43. “A WHALE” ARRIVES IN GULF OF MEXICO: JULY 2

44. “A WHALE” BECOMES PART OF CLEAN UP EFFORT The 1,100-foot (335 m-long) ore and oil carrier named, "A Whale,” can collect 500,000 barrels (21 million gallons) per day of contaminated water, remove the oil, and return the “clean” water to the Gulf.

45. BP hoped that the giant Taiwanese supertanker, "A Whale," could exponentially boost the amount of oil and water mix being scooped up from the surface of the Gulf, while continuing to drill the relief wells that were expected to be completed in mid-August.

46. On July 5 th, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expanded the area closed to fishing in the Gulf beyond the current northwestern boundary off Louisiana, bringing to the closure to 210,258 sq km (81,181 sq mi), 33.5 percent of the Gulf’s Federal waters.

47. After 75 days, the oil leak had fouled some 715 km (444 mi ) of shoreline in four southeastern US states, killed wildlife, stopped most of the region's multi-billion-dollar fishing industry, and significantly slowed tourism.

48. Finally contained permanently after completion of the relief well on September 17, becoming the worst in USA’s history, surpassing the damage done in 1989 by the Exxon Valdez tanker, which spilled 11 million gallons of oil into the ecologically sensitive Prince William Sound, AK.

49. “PORT OF DALION, CHINA OIL SPILL OF 2010” A PIPELINE EXPLOION IN THE PORT OF DALON CAUSED AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER FOR THE BEACHES AND COAST LINES OF THE YELLOW SEA July 17- ???, 2010

50. SOCIETAL IMPACTS DURING 2010 IN CHINA An explosion of oil pipelines in the Port of Dalion caused fires and an oil spill that exceeded the local capacity, causing an environ- - mental disaster in the Yellow Sea.

51. China lacked the capacity and technology to contain the spill in a timely manner.

52. DALON PORT: FIRE AFTER THE EXPLOSION: JULY 17, 2010

53. DALON PORT: FIREFIGHTERS; JULY 17, 2010

54. CONTAINING THE FIRE: JULY 18, 2010

55. OIL WASHING ASHORE: JULY 18, 2010

56. OIL DAMAGE: JULY 18, 2010

57. A DIFFICULT RESCUE: JULY 17, 2010

58. OIL SLICK: YELLOW SEA; JULY 18, 2010

59. OIL SLICK: YELLOW SEA, JULY 18, 2010

60. OIL SLICK: YELLOW SEA. JULY 18, 2010

61. SCOOPING UP THE OIL: JULY 18, 2010

62. SOAKING UP THE OIL: JULY 18, 2010

63. PEOPLES LIBERATION ARMY LAYING BOOM: JULY 20, 2010

64. On July 20, Chinese officials estimated that the oil spill was about 165 square miles, a fraction of the size of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.