For the control of certain bacterial diseases of plants, streptomycin was indeed a silver bullet. Unfortunately, just as the emergence of bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics has limited their performance in clinical settings, streptomycin resistance has destabilized plant disease control.
Average costs of the oil spill clean-up for the oil disasters listed in the table work out at $161 Million, this does not include the estimated costs of $12.5 Billion to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, as this is unprecedented and would give a false value. Reference Web:
A federal judge in New Orleans on Thursday ruled that BPâs âgross negligenceâ and âwillful misconductâ had caused the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and that the companyâs ârecklessâ behavior made it subject to fines of as much as $4,300 a barrel under the Clean Water Act.