In an article written in the NY Times by Tom Zeller and John Broder titled “Gulf oil Spill is Bad, but How Bad?” on May 3, 2010 they explains the Golf oil spill as it was happening in the beginning. The article starts out by tell the reader that some expects have been quick to predict that the oil spill is an apocalypse to the area and cripple the area for years. As President Obama states the problem as “a potentially unprecedented environmental disaster”. After, scaring the read with this, the rest of the article changes direction and leaves the reader with some optimism that the oil spill is not the worst thing to ever hit the golf cost area. Quenton R. Dokken who is a marine biologist states this “we’ve certainly stepped in a hole and we’re going to have to work ourselves out of it, but it isn’t the end of the Gulf of Mexico”.
The second article which was written on November 9, 2010 by Mark Gauarino and can be found on csmonitor.com is more of an overview of the fact from the oil spill. The reader first learns that the oil spill was caused by a huge bubble of flammable methane gas which ignited after shooting up the drill pipe. The blame for the oil spill was put onto three different companies- Transocean, BP and Halliburton. The reader also learns that the cleanup efforts were paid for by BP and at the height of the crisis BP had more than 48,000 workers and 3,200 vessels involved in the clean up. As of the day this article was written, BP paid 11.6 Billion dollars in recovery efforts and is expected to pay an estimated 40 Billion by time it is all cleaned up. Lastly the article touches on the water quality and wildlife aspects of the oil spill. Teams of independent scientists have report that taps much of 80 percent of the oil remains in the water and nearly 7,000 animals have been found