Environmental impact of the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill

2010 British Petroleum Oil Spill UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Mobilee Pensacola ATLANTIC Beaumont Panama City OCEAN Houston New Orleans Galveston Corpus Christi- Tampa Saint Petersburge Brownsville Fort Myers Miamie Matamoros GULF OF MEXICO Florida Straits BANAA Key West La Habana Canal de Yucatán Pinar del Rio CUBA Tampico • Cancún Mérida Bahia de Campeche Campeche Veracruz Ciudad del Carmen MEXICO MAR CARIBE Coatzacoalcos GUATEMALA BELIZE Important Numbers Damage To Animals 210 million gallons of oil was spilled in the ocean More than 2 million fish were killed due to the oil spill $397.7 million worth of oil was spilled 3850 square miles was the size of the area affected by oil $42.2 billion was the amount paid by British Petroleum to settle lawsuits as of 2014. More than 10000 birds were killed as a result of the oil spill 143 oil spill exposure related health cases were recorded $69 billion was the total cleanup cost