Critical Discourse Analysis

 This week we are going to analyze President Obama's remark on the BP oil spill,the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.

The crisis was caused by the explosion of Deepwater Horizon drilling platform ( where 11 workers died ) on 20 April 2010 and the subsequent release of roughly 4.9 milions of barrels of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico during the following 3 months.

Obviously the spill caused massive damages to marine and wildlife habitats and to the fishing and tourism industries.

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