Deepwater Horizon: Drilling deep, drilling dumb

Oil Spill #2, Discoverer Enterprise on May 12, 2010 Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Nesting Grounds with Oil, Gulf of Mexico, 24 June 2010. The spill was called 'the largest case of cruelty to animals in US history' Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky ... ground zero on the same day Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Oil Spill #10, Oil Slick, June 24, 2010 Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Oil skimming boat near ground zero, June 24, 2010 Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Q4000 Drilling Platform, 24 June 2010. The vessel was used to position the large containment dome and also to attempt the 'top kill' in which drilling mud was pumped down the drilling pipe to cap the leak from the blown-out Deepwater Horizon well Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Oil Spill #13, Mississippi Delta, June 24, 2010 Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Ground zero overview, Gulf of Mexico, June 24 2010 Photograph: Edward Burtynsky Photograph: Edward Burtynsky