Gulf Gusher Information Resources

Crossposted at Earth Alternatives

I'll go out on a limb here and ask you to recommend this diary, since it took 16 hours for me to research and format.  I posted it earlier today and it was well-received, but it scrolled off the diary list fairly quickly and did not quite get the visibility I was hoping for.

I have scoured the MMS website for publicly available information about offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and what follows is the fruit of my labor, provided to you, dear Kossacks, as a public service.  So without further ado, here we go...

Offshore Continental Shelf Spill Incidents ≥ 50 Barrels in the Gulf of Mexico that were reported from 1964-2009:

Note the spike in spills during Bush's presidency.