Yay! Everything's Clean! BP Ending MS, FL, AL Oil Cleanup By Mid-June; Process Continues In LA

[hatrack]

The U.S. Coast Guard and BP announced Monday that the company will end active Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup operations in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida by mid-June. A Coast Guard news release also said future response efforts in those states, if needed, will no longer be led by its Gulf Coast Incident Management Team, which will continue to oversee cleanup efforts in Louisiana.

Response operations remain active along 84 shoreline miles in Louisiana, according to a BP news release, with another 20 miles in the state awaiting approval as being cleaned or awaiting final monitoring or inspection. There are 18 Coast Guard officials and 87 contract employees working on the Louisiana response, said Lieut. Cmdr. Natalie Murphy, with cleanup operations taking place on Grand Terre Island, Grand Isle, Fourchon Beach, Elmer's Island and part of West Timbalier Island. She said there's still no time frame for the end of response efforts in Louisiana.

"This is another important step towards meeting our goal of returning the shoreline to as close to pre-spill conditions as possible while managing the scale of the response to meet conditions on the ground," said Capt. Duke Walker, Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the Deepwater Horizon Response.

Louisiana officials contend they have documented oil in locations along 200 miles of the state's coastline and have repeatedly objected to earlier proposals by the Coast Guard to reduce spill response operations in the state, and to require that oil finds in areas declared clean to be reported through the National Response Center. "Resorting back to the legacy NRC system is flawed," said Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Chairman Garret Graves. "We have seen numerous times where responders have come hours or days later -- in some cases without access to boats. "Coastal Louisiana is very dynamic," he said. You must have first responders capable of deploying immediately, or the oil will be reburied, wave-washed, or otherwise out of sight."

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http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2013/06/bp_oil_spill_cleanup_ends_in_m.html#incart_river

[PDJane]

1. I don't believe it. They're calling it done because they've damaged the gulf beyond repair,

And have no idea what to do about it.

[stuntcat]

2. They're calling it done because they've damaged the gulf beyond repair..

worth re-saying, imho.

[Nihil]

3. No, they're calling it done because they've restored it back to the shitty state it was already in.

It's not "clean". It hasn't been clean since the first rig was put out in the gulf started to leak and
there are over 4000 of the damn things out there.

All BP have done is mop up (most of) their "spike" of additional crap put out by Deepwater Horizon
but they haven't (and couldn't) render the gulf genuinely clean due to the thousands of other rigs
out there, happily polluting away as they've been for decades (with no effective oversight).

If you think that one event "damaged the gulf beyond repair" then you have no idea how much
crap is still being put into it every hour of every day by oil rigs, gas rigs, cargo ships, cruise ships,
agricultural runoff, industrial runoff, human sewage, ...

(Hint: The dead zones, jetsam & seabed pollution were there long before Deepwater Horizon was
even planned.)

[PDJane]

4. It's in worse state than it was already in, thanks to the toxic effects of correxit.

They didn't clean anything, they hid it.