New Orleans – Fifteen years after the Deep Water Horizon oil touches the Gulf of the Gulf, 5 people were killed and 1 million gallons (17.2 million liters) were spread in the sea, the country’s worst offshore oil was still felt.
The oil agency BP has paid billions of dollars to billions of dollars, driven the ambitious coastal recovery projects across five states. Nevertheless, cleanup workers and local residents who have spread oil for health effects are listening to their cases in court and some have received significant compensation.
Conservation groups say that the spill has catalyzed innovative recovery work across the Gulf coast, but a flagship land-creative project in Louisiana has been worried. As the Trump administration expands oil and gas abroad, they are concerned that the best opportunities for the Gulf coast are moving away.
In the coastal community of the southeast of Louisiana Louisiana, Tamie Grimilion is celebrating Easter on April 20 spill on April 20 without her daughter. He warned Jennifer against joining a cleanup in the BP spill.
“But I couldn’t stop him – they were offering a lot of money to these kids,” said Grimilion. “They didn’t know the dangers. They didn’t do what they should do to protect these young people.”
Jennifer worked in the oil for months, returned home in smoke, coveded covered in black splaches and breaking the rash and suffering headaches. He came in contact with the cricket, applied to the bottom and bottom of the water to spread an EPA-approved chemical oil, which has been associated with health problems.
In 2021, Jennifer died in Leukemia, blood cancer that could be due to oil contact.
Grimilion, who spoke of his daughter’s death, broke into tears, “1,000% confident” that caused cancer in contact with toxin during the cleanup.
He filed a case against BP in 2022, though the allegations were difficult to establish in court. The Grimilion suit is still one of a small number of cases pending.
Before the investigation of the Associated Press, everything was found except about 5,3 cases and only one settled for the health problem associated with the spread of oil.
In a 2012 settlement, BP paid 67 million to sick workers and coastal residents, but it was not more than $ 1,300 per $ 1 for compensation.
The Atornis of the Downs Law Group represent the BP in the case against Grimilion and about 5 people, saying that the company has received processed technical technologies to prevent their day in court in their court.
BP has refused to comment on the case. In the case of the court, BP denied the allegations that health problems arose in contact with oil and attacked credibility of medical experts by the plaintiff.
The environmental impact was destructive, remembering the PJ Han, who served on the frontline as the officer in the southeast Louisiana coastal management. He saw the oil in the barrier islands and surrounded the plaquemines parish around his community until it only crushed like a cookie in hot coffee, only separated. “
The oyster bed has stopped breathing, the reefs were blankets on chemicals and the phishing industry was tank. The pelismen smelled a black shell from the contaminated water diving for dead fish. The National Ocean and the atmospheric administration said thousands of marine and sea turtles were killed according to the National Ocean and atmospheric administration.
Since then, a team of state and federal agencies responsible for the recovery of the BP has been recovered, according to the Natural Resources Damage Evaluation Trustee Council, has been restored to the Gulf Housing and ecosystem.
The Council says that more than 300 $ 5008 billion worth of recovery projects have been approved in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has named the United States Gulf. The projects include acquiring wetlands in Mississippi to protect the nesting zones for birds, rebuilding the reefs along the Pennacola Bay of Florida, and recovering about 4 square miles (11 sq km) in the square of New Orleans.
During a tragedy, the spill “encouraged a movement – it was moving towards a healthy, more elastic coast,” said Simone Maloz, director of the Conservation Alliance Mississippi River Delta.
The billion dollars of dollars paid by BP “allow us to rely on science to work faster, to work quickly and to guide large -sized solutions,” he added.
Nevertheless, many conservationists view as the flag of the meaning recovery projects by paying dipwater disaster – about 3 billion dollars in the Southeast Louisiana to redefine 21 square miles (54 sq km) of land from the Mississippi River – locally suspended its impact on Elvez.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landri says that the project will break “our culture” by damaging local oyster and shrimp fisheries due to the arrival of fresh water. Earlier this month, his administration had paused the project for 90 days with his high expenditure quote and its future was uncertain.
The Trump administration is trying to sell more offshore oil and gas lease, which the industrial trade group called the American Petroleum Institute a “major step for American power”.
BP announced the discovery of an oil in the bay last week and planned more than 40 new wells in the next three years. The company has said that it has improved the security quality and supervision.
BP said in an email statement “We are eagerly aware that we should always be protected first.” “We have changed a lot so that this national event never happens again.”
Nevertheless, the non -profit Osiana climate and energy director Joseph Gordon warned that the inheritance of Deepwater Horizon should be “an alarm bell” against the expansion of offshore drilling.
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