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You're not being ignorant, they closed down in 2008 in an attempt to avoid financial responsibility for the spill.
Anyway, I don't think I'm making my point very well here. I guess I'm just trying to demonstrate the level of futility of the whole situation. Until such time as environmental responsibility is more profitable than the current state of affairs and such time that environmental issues are not politicised for nationalistic purposes (Would the fine for Deepwater Horizon been so huge if it had been an American company?), not much is going to change.
Individual responsibility hasn't made a dent. Collective responsibility is too contentious, plenty of people out there in denial. The only way things are going to change is if you follow the money.