Judge Barbier approves $7.8B settlement for BP class action suit– http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/12/26/275231.htm Read More
Tag: restoration
BP settlement
BP settles criminal fines– http://www.abc6.com/story/20107832/bp-to-pay-45-billion-in-oil-spill-settlement Read More
DWH spill data portal
NOAA portal for access to DWH oil spill data– http://noaa.ntis.gov/site/home.php Read More
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative RFP-II program
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (RFP-II program) awards 19 research projects $20 million over three years for studies on the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystems– http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/2012/bp-sponsored-gulf-of-mexico-research-initiative-awards-new-grants/. Read More
Recovery publication
Current Biology editor considers where Gulf ecosystem and policies are 2 years after DWH oil spill– http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212005222 Read More
Shell Marine Habitat Program
Shell Marine Habitat Program (SMHP) partnership between Shell Oil Company and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) supports conservation and restoration activities that result in measurable benefits to key species and their habitats within coastal ecosystems– http://www.nfwf.org/shell/Pages/home.aspx#.U6w28kBBnoE Read More
Oil Spill Commission report
Oil Spill Commission action committee assesses progress towards recommendations made in National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Off-Shore Drilling’s 2011 report (http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/)– http://oscaction.org/wp-content/uploads/OSCA-Assessment-report.pdf. Read More
Spill rate
New publication pegs total DWH oil spill at 4.9-5.5 million bbls– Griffiths, S. 2012. Oil Release from Macondo Well MC252 Following the Deepwater Horizon Accident. Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI: 10.1021/es204569t (on-line at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es204569t) Read More
Deep coral impacts
Investigators funded by NOAA, BOEM, USGS, Census of Marine Life and NSF find impacts of DWH oil spill on deep sea coral ecosystems near the well site– news at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123555&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click; publication at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/23/1118029109.full.pdf+html?sid=97130868-7d9b-440f-8d04-618c0157813c. Read More
March recovery
Dauphin Island Sea Lab leads study on microbes that actively degrade oil spill in marshes– http://www.springerlink.com/content/e46g688n71043684/. Read More