› summer › The Louisiana coastIn the first eight months of the year, 3 million pounds of "oily material" were cleaned up on Louisiana's coast, g-suite cardinal up from 119,894 pounds during the same time last year, the state says.
NEW ORLEANS – The amount of oil found on Louisiana's coast has surged this year, three years after BP's Macondo spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the state's Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority said.
In the first eight months of this year, some 3.01 million pounds of "oily material" were cleaned up on Louisiana's coast, up from 119,894 pounds in the same period last year, g-suite in oldham according to a report posted on the web site of the state's Department of Natural Resources.
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The report did not say why there was a more than 20-fold increase in the amount collected this year, or if Tropical Storm Karen washed away sand to expose oil already on beaches when it moved through the Gulf earlier this month. Some of the oil, especially so-called tar balls, apparently washed ashore after Karen hit.
The report said more than 200 miles of Louisiana shoreline still display some degree of oil pollution after the largest offshore crude spill in U.S. history.
"The conventional wisdom would be that the number (of pounds of oily materials collected) should go down, obviously. But if the response effort was insufficient ... I think the numbers speak for themselves," Garret Graves, the chairman of the authority told Reuters late on Thursday.
Danny Wallace, BP incident commander, said the rise in recoveries this year stemmed from where BP was focusing its efforts after Hurricane Isaac rearranged sands in August, 2012.
"In 2013 most cleanup activities have focused on the barrier islands where Hurricane Isaac uncovered heavily-weathered residual oil that had been buried when tropical storms deposited deep layers of sand along the shoreline in 2010 and 2011," Wallace said.
He said the state had initially shied away from allowing the company to dig deeply to recover oily material, but after Isaac scooping up the oil became easier and posed fewer environmental risks.
BP also said that some of the oil on the shore could have come from natural seeps on the seafloor and that much of the material collected included sand, shells and water.
"Laboratory tests conducted by both the Coast Guard and BP on multiple tar ball samples recovered from Grand Isle (Louisiana) in September confirmed that not all tar balls in the area are associated with the (Macondo) accident," BP spokesman Jason Ryan said.
Related: Judge hears claims BP lied to US about oil spill in Gulf
The coastal authority represents several public agencies and helps coordinate BP's restoration work.
This month in New Orleans, g-suite oldham lawyers for BP and the federal government have tussled in court over how much oil spilled during the 87 days it took before workers were able to cap the well mishap that killed 11 men.
U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier is expected to decide early next year how much BP should be fined under the Clean Water Act for the spill.
The government has told the court that some 4.9 million barrels spilled. BP has estimated just 3.26 million barrels escaped into the sea. Both sides have acknowledged that 810,000 barrels of oil collected in cleanup will be excluded from the final amount.
NEW ORLEANS – The amount of oil found on Louisiana's coast has surged this year, three years after BP's Macondo spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the state's Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority said.
In the first eight months of this year, some 3.01 million pounds of "oily material" were cleaned up on Louisiana's coast, up from 119,894 pounds in the same period last year, g-suite in oldham according to a report posted on the web site of the state's Department of Natural Resources.
Related: 3 years later, BP cleanup ends in 3 states
The report did not say why there was a more than 20-fold increase in the amount collected this year, or if Tropical Storm Karen washed away sand to expose oil already on beaches when it moved through the Gulf earlier this month. Some of the oil, especially so-called tar balls, apparently washed ashore after Karen hit.
The report said more than 200 miles of Louisiana shoreline still display some degree of oil pollution after the largest offshore crude spill in U.S. history.
"The conventional wisdom would be that the number (of pounds of oily materials collected) should go down, obviously. But if the response effort was insufficient ... I think the numbers speak for themselves," Garret Graves, the chairman of the authority told Reuters late on Thursday.
Danny Wallace, BP incident commander, said the rise in recoveries this year stemmed from where BP was focusing its efforts after Hurricane Isaac rearranged sands in August, 2012.
"In 2013 most cleanup activities have focused on the barrier islands where Hurricane Isaac uncovered heavily-weathered residual oil that had been buried when tropical storms deposited deep layers of sand along the shoreline in 2010 and 2011," Wallace said.
He said the state had initially shied away from allowing the company to dig deeply to recover oily material, but after Isaac scooping up the oil became easier and posed fewer environmental risks.
BP also said that some of the oil on the shore could have come from natural seeps on the seafloor and that much of the material collected included sand, shells and water.
"Laboratory tests conducted by both the Coast Guard and BP on multiple tar ball samples recovered from Grand Isle (Louisiana) in September confirmed that not all tar balls in the area are associated with the (Macondo) accident," BP spokesman Jason Ryan said.
Related: Judge hears claims BP lied to US about oil spill in Gulf
The coastal authority represents several public agencies and helps coordinate BP's restoration work.
This month in New Orleans, g-suite oldham lawyers for BP and the federal government have tussled in court over how much oil spilled during the 87 days it took before workers were able to cap the well mishap that killed 11 men.
U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier is expected to decide early next year how much BP should be fined under the Clean Water Act for the spill.
The government has told the court that some 4.9 million barrels spilled. BP has estimated just 3.26 million barrels escaped into the sea. Both sides have acknowledged that 810,000 barrels of oil collected in cleanup will be excluded from the final amount.
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