Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 25, 2010. President Obama pledged a swift, coordinated, and aggressive effort in response to the earthquake in Haiti in January and called for sustained commitment to Haiti’s reconstruction. In light of Haitian President Preval’s attendance at the G8 today, the President reiterated the importance of this sustained commitment[Read More…]
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Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill, June 24, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 24, 2010. PAST 24 HOURS Carol Browner Meets with Top BP Officials Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner today met with BP executives Bob Dudley, Lamar McKay, David Nagel and Karen St. John to discuss a number of key issues, including containment, redundancy,[Read More…]
Readout of Carol Browner’s Meeting with BP Executives, June 24, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 24, 2010. Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner met with BP executives Bob Dudley, Lamar McKay, David Nagel and Karen St. John earlier today to discuss a number of key issues including containment, redundancy, claims and scientific monitoring. The meeting with Dudley was[Read More…]
Two Members of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Die in Unrelated Events
NEW ORLEANS–(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2010. Two members of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response died today in unrelated events. At approximately 7 a.m. the Unified Command at the Incident Command Post in Mobile was notified that a master of a Vessel of Opportunity (VOO) died in Gulf Shores, Ala. The Gulf[Read More…]
Update on LMRP Cap Containment Operations
HOUSTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2010. The lower marine riser package (LMRP) cap containment system was successfully reinstalled on the Deepwater Horizon’s failed blow-out preventer (BOP) at approximately 1830 CDT on June 23. This containment system is connected to the drillship Discoverer Enterprise on the surface. The system resumed collecting oil and gas[Read More…]
NOAA Opens More Than 8,000 Square Miles of Fishing Closed Area in Gulf of Mexico
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2010. NOAA has opened more than 8,000 square miles of previously closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico, because the agency has not observed oil in the area. The most significant opening is an area due south of Mississippi which was closed Monday, June 21. Additionally,[Read More…]
UNESCO Designates Canadian Governor-General as Special Envoy for Haiti
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 June 2010 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced today that it is designating Canada’s Governor-General Michaëlle Jean to be the agency’s Special Envoy for Haiti, the country where she was born but later left as a child refugee. Ms. Jean will take up[Read More…]
Press Briefing by National Incident Commander, June 22, 2010
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2010. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander for the Deepwater BP Oil Spill response, briefed the media Tuesday afternoon. ADMIRAL ALLEN: Good afternoon. Here to give you a quick update on the last 24 hours of operations. We’d like to answer any questions you might[Read More…]
Sierra Club to Join Obama Administration in Appealing Moratorium Decision
New Orleans, LA–(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2010. Today, a federal judge blocked a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling put in place by President Obama following the BP disaster in the Gulf. On June 7, 2010, Hornbeck Offshore Services, a company that provides vessel support to offshore oil and gas drilling in the[Read More…]
Federal Court Lifts Moratorium on Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2010. Summary: A federal district court of Louisiana decided today to lift the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Obama in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil industry groups challenged the moratorium on the grounds it caused irreparable[Read More…]
