Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force is the organization created by President Barack Obama to recover from the 2010 BP "Deepwater Horizon" oil spill and preserve the ecosystem of the Gulf Coast of the United States. On April 20, 2010 the United States watched as over 200 million gallons of crude oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico from the 2010 BP "Deepwater Horizon" oil spill. For three months various efforts were taken to cap the broken well and were finally successful on September 19, 2010. In the aftermath of this disaster the
Guimaras oil spill Guimaras oil spill The Guimaras oil spill occurred in the Panay Gulf on August 11, 2006 when the oil tanker M/T "Solar 1" sank off the coast of Guimaras and Negros islands in the Philippines, causing what is considered as the worst oil spill in the country. The oil tanker M/T "Solar 1", carrying more than two million liters of bunker fuel, sank during a violent storm approximately off the southern coast of Guimaras at around midnight on August 11, 2006, causing some of oil to pour into the gulf, that traveled up through the Guimaras Strait and Iloilo Strait.