Former Federal Disaster Response Experts and National Environmental Groups have warned Dog Job cuts may hinder a large oil spreading reaction to the Gulf coast of Louisiana this week, it is a leak that threatens the rapidly contaminated marshlands and significant wildlife residences and fishermen.
Although the amount of crude oil that is currently coming out of the well is not yet known, a report by the US Coast Guard’s National Response Center said “The discharge quantity may reach a large expansion of coastal water (over 1,7,7 gallons).” This leak was first reported as “good blout” on Friday April 26 April. The reason is not yet known.
On Thursday, the Coast Guard said that more than 30,000 gallons of gallons were collected from the spill site, and more than two miles were already deployed, the crew was waiting for more content materials.
More than a thousand employees National ocean and atmospheric administration Was departed or retired early in recent days. It was in addition to about a thousand ChoppedIn accordance with the source of the forces decreased. This week, the NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration Emergency Response Department has left the agency – the most responsible team – the agency – the team has left the agency to spread the oil.
The office operates about 150 oils and chemical spills annually. Its original mission is to answer the following questions:.
- What was the scatter?
- Where to go?
- What effect will it affect?
- What will be the result of this?
- How can the effects be alleviated?
According to the NOA, the office has helped to recover $ 10.8 billion from responsible teams for the past three decades to support environmental recovery.
Recently retired NOA Senior Manager CBS News, which is involved in spill reactions, told CBS News that the agency has been “considerable reduction” in the team that provides the Coast Guard, which is currently in charge of coordination operations, and the main investigating agency in the Garden Island Gulf.
Until this week, Adriana Bejarano was a chemical scientist in that emergency response department and was released because of his entry dignity. Although Bezrano was in service for less than a year, he was earlier senior eco-poisonous expert in Shell Oil who did his PhD. And had been in this field of work for 20 years.
“If it continues and other disasters happen at the same time, I don’t think there will be skills or staff to respond to NOAA,” Bezarno told CBS News, “Bejarano told CBS News.
Gib Bogan, along with non -profit group Oceanna, told CBS News that “NOA’s 28,5 years of experience is coming out of the door with initial retirement this week.”
“We are very concerned about staff and skills that will not be able to respond to the spread of this oil,” said Broogan. ” “NOAA has never been saved from Dog and initial retirement, we know that there is no skills and there is no support for the agency’s support and reactions.”
Currently, what is described as oil gizar by witnesses is shooting in the air 30 to 40 feet from a good well managed by Spectrum OPO LLC. Clean-up crew is spraying the airborne oil with water to push it back to the surface to collect it more easily and prevents the oil from moving away from the spill site.
Well, as known as 59, was drilled at a depth of about 7,000 feet in 1942 and changed ownership multiple times. It was capded in 20 2016 and it has not been effective since then, the Coast Guard said. However, according to Scott Eulysis of the Healthy Gulf, a non -profit that monitors the health of the region and advises to move away from lifting oil and gas, it should have been plugged a decade ago. It is a process that involves concrete injection to make it permanently sealed.
The leaked oil seems to have reached the critical residence including the threatened Loghead C turtles, although no damage to the wild life has been reported.
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This phenomenon is part of a greater issue that experts concern over the years: a survey in 2021 identified 5,7 unlisted wells in the Gulf. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has stressed the offshore oil drilling and pressed the process to accelerate the process, reduce the deadline just a few weeks.
This leak is occurring near the Garden Island Gulf of Garden Island in the Pass-A-Looter Wildlife Management Region, a sensitive environmental region in Southeast Louisiana.
According to Estis, this spill is a threat of various species, including black turns, bottleinose dolphins, larvae Yeolofin tuna, marsh bird, spring pogi and young fish transferred to spring growth.
There are also potential threats to the shrimp industry in the region, with the shrimp season starts in just a few weeks with marsh where the spill is still actively spraying iscluding
Coast Guard yesterday announced that the response attempt was “federalized”, allowing federal agencies to add and take full control of the cleanup operation. Thursday was on a caping stack and other good control tools.
An update on the operations on Thursday said that a mixture of 32,718 gallons of oily water was restored.
In an interview to CBS News, Captain Gregory Calhan, Captain Gregory Calhan of Coast Guard, who is in charge of coordinating the Well 59 leak multiplication of multi-agency response efforts, said, “We are still actively using 12 schemes on the site.” “I am one of the unique things about this event … a beautiful remote area of wetlands that is difficult to get it … [and] Stage on stage. “
CBS News reached the spectrum energy, a Houston-based firm Spectrum with the overlapping leadership with OPO and the company mentioned in a Gmail account used for coordination by Coast Guard.
Asked about whether the federal expenditure cuts were affected by the reaction of his parties, Kolahan said, “I will not say anything from the role of the federal agency coordinator. Our goal is to use all the resources needed to control this source and then every mulch, uh, UH, to accept the environmental impact that can be accepted.
A NOAA spokesman told CBS News that the company would not comment on the employees or management, but said that the NOAA was dedicated to the American masses to provide timely information, research and resources and ensure environmental and economic elasticity of our country. ”
“We are providing oil -spread information, trajectory forecasts and other scientific analyzes according to our public safety missions,” said the spokesperson.
CBS News also reached the White House for comments and did not receive any response.
This week Marked 15 years Since the Horizon explosion of the Horizon on the Gulf of the Horizon led 134 million gallons of oil to the discharge.
Tracy J. Wolf contributed to this report.
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