In any oil spill, looking at the economic issues that are raised, the first parameter that is used is the number of gallons of oils that were spilt to measure the loss that was suffered in monetary terms. In the case of the gulf war oil spill of 1991, it caused the loss of millions of gallons of oil that could have been used for a longtime or raised a lot of money for the country. After the spill the American government blamed Iraq for the spill citing as the Gulf Warfare where the Iraqis were using oil as a tactic to fight against American troops. On the other hand Americans were blamed for the loss as the Iraqis asserted that the Americans were looking to cripple their economy through destroying their main source of wealth.
[...] This was therefore a major economic challenge for the Iraqis as they had lost a lot during the war. The resources had to be restored to the baseline state as they looked to change and continue with the mass production of oil that was their main source of wealth. There was a need for a contingency plan after the main oil reserves and the oil spill to ensure that the country was still able to channel enough oil to other reserves (Payne and Sand, 2011). [...]
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[...] This does not give a definitive answer to the problems that are faced by people and the different ways to ensure that the people are not affected by the spill with some of the effects being long-term (Payne and Sand, 2011). Majority of the people usually concentrate on efforts of controlling the spread rather than on the different aspects of ensuring that the spill does not affect the people and in the process this leads to uncontrollable effects of the spill on public health. References Abu-Zinada, A. H. (2008). Protecting the Gulf's marine ecosystems from pollution. Basel: Birkhauser . Brauer, J. (2009). War and nature: The environmental consequences of war in a globalized world. [...]
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