Oil+Spill+Crisis

1967 []
 * **Timeline**
 * March 18, Cornwall, Eng.: ** first major oil spill. Spilled 38 million gallons off the Scilly Islands.
 * 1989 **
 * March 24, Prince William Sound, Alaska ****: ** Tanker hit undersea reef and spilled 10 million–plus gallons of oil into the water.
 * 1992 **
 * March 2, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan ****: ** 88 million gallons of oil spilled from an oil well.
 * 2008 **
 * July 25, New Orleans, Louisiana: ** Hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leak from the barge into ocean, causing a halt to all river traffic.
 * 2009 **
 * March 11, Queensland, Australia: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> A container ship came loose on deck and caused the release of 52,000 gallons of heavy fuel and 620 tons of fertalizer into the Coral Sea.
 * <span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">2010 **
 * <span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Jan. 23, Port Arthur, Texas ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> An oil tanker and a barge collide in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, causing the release of about 462,000 gallons of oil.
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">April 24, Gulf of Mexico ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> A drilling rig sank on after an explosion. Eleven people died in the blast and 1,050,000 gallons were lost. **Interactive Camera of the oil slick**