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The energy industry has long dumped its damage and, like the banks, made scant provision against disaster. Time to pay up.

The US coast guard chief in charge of the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico warned that even if the flow of crude was stopped by summer, it could take well into autumn

Henry Fountain

As engineers made headway on Thursday in containing the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, crews on two floating rigs flanking the spot where the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank were doing what rig crews normally do: drilling wells.

Kirtika Suneja & Jyoti Mukul / New Delhi June 5, 2010, 0:04 IST

On World Environment Day, Business Standard tracks the hazards in which India

ON April 20, a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. The rig was called Deepwater Horizon, well named for British Petroleum's (B.P.) remarkable effort to draw oil from a deep-sea rig that has to go through 22,000 to 25,000 feet (6,600-7,500 metres) of water before it strikes the seabed.

Eleven oil workers are presumed dead although their bodies have not been found.