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Blowout in the Gulf :the BP oil spill disaster and the future of energy in Am…
Explains both the disaster and the decisions that led up to it and argues that for the future the emphasis needs to be on prevention and that risk-management policies be based on better understandings of humans and hardware.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262294126
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) :illustrations
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Silent spill :the organization of an industrial crisis
In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill -- even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in …
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- 0585442568
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- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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