Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America

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Notes Prologue 1. On the earlier well, see Coy and Reed 2010. On the safety celebration , see Breed and McGill 2010. See also New Orleans TimesPicayune 2010a. 2. Quotations are from Breed and McGill 2010. See also New Orleans Times-Picayune 2010a; offshore-technology.com 2010. 3. See U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2010; see also Freudenburg et al. 2009. 4. Breed and McGill 2010; see also offshore-technology.com 2010. Chapter 1: A Question for Our Time 1. The New York Times article was by Banerjee 2002. 2. This compilation of quotations was first assembled as part of what Lubin 2010 calls “Mike Milken’s Excellent Presentation on Our Pathetic History of Foreign Oil Dependence.” See also Vega 2010. Chapter 2: The Macondo Mess 1. New Orleans Times-Picayune 2010b; see also offshore-technology. com 2010. 2. Raines 2010a. 3. On the Census of Marine Life, see PLoS One 2010; on dangers to birds, see for example Minard 2010, Rioux 2010; on the effects of the Loop Current, see Biello 2010, Borenstein 2010. 192 Notes 4. Henry 2010; Harris 2010a; BBC News 2010; Polson 2010; Gramling and Freudenburg 1992b. The final estimates were reported by Deepwater Horizon Study Group 2010; see also Boxall 2010. 5. Beamish 2002. 6. The quotation is from Kindy 2010; see also Levin 2010. 7. Hamburger and Geiger 2010; the quotation is from p. A12. 8. Associated Press 2010; Boxall and Tankersley 2010. 9. For thoughtful analyses of the stresses created by the “corrosive community” that emerged in the wake of the Exxon Valdez, see Marshall et al. 2004; Picou et al. 2004. For a journalist’s summary, see Mauer 2010. For figures on deaths and liens on the long-delayed checks, see Pitts 2009. 10. The comparisons are from U.S. Government Accountability Office 2007, and from Iledare and Olatubi 2006. Broader assessments are provided by Gramling and Freudenburg 2009; McGowan 2010; Geiger and Hamburger 2010. 11. Geiger and Hamburger 2010. See also Government Accountability Office 2007. 12. We are building here on earlier thoughts from Erikson 1976, and Freudenburg et al. 2009. 13. For the original statement, see Peter and Hull 1969. See also Erikson 1976; Freudenburg et al. 2009. 14. Mills 2010. Chapter 3: Stored Sunlight and Its Risks 1. For a more detailed discussion, see, e.g., Hyne 1995. 2. The quotation is from Hyne 1995, p. 173. 3. Hyne 1995; Gramling 1996. 4. The quotation is from Kaldany 2006, p. 5; see also Quist-Arcton 2007. 5. The video of the interview is available at Wade 2010. The worker being quoted is identified in the video as Daniel Barron III, one of the survivors of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. 6. See especially Freudenburg 1992a; Busenberg 1999. Notes 193 7. For statements of the original concept, and applications to the Exxon Valdez, see especially Freudenburg 1992a, 1992b. See also Clarke 1993, 1999. Official estimates put the size of the Exxon spill at 11 million gallons, the figure used here, but other calculations indicate that the total size of that spill might have been as much as 38 million gallons. Even the larger figure, however, would have been smaller than the quantity of oil lost from the BP blowout, and in all likelihood, the true figure will never be known. 8. The quotation is from Bartimus et al. 1989, pp. 1, 15; see also Church, 1989. 9. For a thoughtful analysis, see Pulver 2007; see also Schwartz 2006a. The quotation is from Lustgarten and Knutson 2010a. 10. See for example the assessment by Associated Press business writer , Wardell 2010. 11. For further details, see for example Schwartz 2006b; Lustgarten 2010; Hatcher 2010. 12. The quotation about the “draconian” nature of cost-cutting operations comes from ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten (2010). See also Lustgarten and Knutson 2010b. 13. The information and quotation on the OSHA fine are from Greenhouse 2010. The quotation and story on the “opportunities for more cost cutting,” come from Clanton 2010. 14. See the analysis by Morris and Pell 2010. 15. See Lustgarten and Knutson 2010a, which is the source of the quotation, and Lustgarten and Knutson 2010b. 16. Bluestein and Baker 2010. 17. Griffin and Fitzpatrick 2010. 18. Cart et al. 2010; the quotation is from p. AA5. 19. Lin and Boxall 2010; the quotation is from p. AA1. 20. The article was by Urbina 2010. 21. The quotation comes from the Washington Post...