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Dispersants effectiveness questioned

AS AUSTRALIAN and Canadian regulators consider spill response options in the event of a catastrophic well blow-out caused by wildcat drilling off the wild coastlines of Nova Scotia and South Australia, new research just published suggests using chemical dispersants on the Macondo spill might have done little to help.

Haydn Black
Dispersants effectiveness questioned

Earlier this year scientists from a Florida-based scientific consortium said the use of the dispersant Corexit in unprecedented volumes in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster left a thick layer...

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