It is estimated that over 1,000 gallons of oil has been spilled into Lake Michigan, a lake that over 7 million people in Chicago and surrounding areas use for drinking water. BP, once again, has been very inefficient with their reporting of the incident.
On top of this, only a few days prior, two ships near in Galveston Bay in Texas collided spilling 168,000 gallons of oil into the bay. This has caused numerous deaths to the native wildlife.
I know these spills don't compare to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, but oil spills are actually very common around the world. There was a 1.68 million gallon oil spill in Nigeria by Shell and that was never discussed on mainstream media. The oil industry continually gets away with whatever it wants around the world because the US relies heavily on oil. This gives them a hand in US politics, especially considering how economically impactful the oil industry is. In 2013 the five primary oil companies made $93 billion, which equals $177,000 a minute. They've consistently shown that profits are far more important than public safety. The lives of innocent animals are on their hands and yet they and the US government appear to have no remorse as these problems keep arising.
http://www.texastribune.org/2014/04/04/shorebirds-devastated-galveston-oil-spill/
http://fox17online.com/2014/04/03/bp-must-provide-details-behind-lake-michigan-
oil-spill/#axzz2xxshzdb3
http://www.texastribune.org/2014/04/04/shorebirds-devastated-galveston-oil-spill/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140324-galveston-bay-birds-oil-spill-animals-science/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/nigeria-oil-spill_n_4373361.html
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