WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2010.  The Obama Administration on Friday sent an eighth bill for $25.4 million to BP and other named responsible parties for response and recovery operations relating to the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. To date, the Administration has sent these eight bills to BP and other responsible parties (Transocean,[Read More…]

NEW ORLEANS–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2010.  The Federal On Scene Coordinator for the BP oil spill response and experts from the Unified Area Command provided Louisiana parish presidents with an operational update Wednesday, as part of an ongoing dialogue between the response organization and community leaders. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft,[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 15, 2010.  NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 8,403 square miles of Gulf waters which extend from the Louisiana state water line to due south of the Alabama/Florida state line. This is the eleventh reopening in federal waters since July 22. This reopening was announced after[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 10, 2010.   Chris O’Neil: Good morning, everybody.  This is Lieutenant Commander Chris O’Neil, public information officer for the Unified Area Command.  I’d like to advise everybody on the call that we have three subject matter experts from NOAA with us today in addition to Admiral Zukunft. We have[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 3, 2010.   Paul Zukunft: OK.  Well good morning everybody.  This is the 197th day of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response.  Today we have just over 9,200 people out doing active response operations in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.  I reported last week that we had approximately 580[Read More…]

New York, NY -(ENEWSPF)–November 1, 2010—U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has named John H. Hankinson, Jr. to be the executive director of the newly established Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. President Obama signed an executive order earlier this month establishing the task force, which will[Read More…]

NEW ORLEANS–(ENEWSPF)–October 29, 2010.  Final lab results, from government and independent labs, came back Thursday showing that samples taken of reported oil in West Bay, La., were absent of any crude oil, confirming initial findings that the discolored water was the result of an algal bloom. The large, orange blooms[Read More…]

From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — Halliburton and BP knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the[Read More…]

From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — Halliburton and BP knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the[Read More…]

NEW ORLEANS–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 27, 2010.  The following information is an operations update from the Unified Area Command for the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Approximately 11,186 personnel are currently responding to protect the shoreline, wildlife and cleanup vital coastlines. Fourteen shoreline cleanup assessment teams are working in Louisiana, Mississippi,[Read More…]