Lesson learned: BP oil spill could help prepare for future emergencies
Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 09:56
in Mathematics & Economics
If the lessons of this year`s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are heeded, it should be possible to drastically reduce the chances of a repeat occurrence, according to MIT faculty members and other experts who spoke on Tuesday at an MIT symposium on the oil spill. And if there is another such occurrence, they said, responders should be able to deal with it much more rapidly and effectively.