BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Information and Suggestions

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Posted by: LT Connie Braesch

As the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to generate interest, we want to reiterate the best place for information on response efforts - the official Unified Area Command Website.

The entire site is full of regularly updated useful information, some of the best resources include the maps (daily trajectory forecasts, oil impact assessment and situation status maps), fact sheets, FAQ, graphics, and health and safety.

The Unified Area Command offers two options for submitting ideas and suggestions for the oil spill response. If you have an idea, click here for more information on the review process and to determine which option is best.

**Please note will no longer be publishing comments on the Compass relating to suggestions or ideas on ways to respond to the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill.

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  • Taylor Marsh

    I was wondering where you apply to help with the oil spill clean up

  • kelly morgan

    I think it would help if there was a contact # for us to get ahold of who is picking the boats for the vessels of opportunity. Also, to have the different contract companies be able to communicate with each other. Thanks

  • Christopher Lagan

    Taylor,

    The federal government has set up a website with information on volunteering to help with the clean up effort. You can find that information by visiting:

    Respectfully,
    Christopher Lagan
    United States Coast Guard
    Public Affairs

  • Sherri Fowler

    I think it would be great for each persons voice to be heard. If we had a place where our concerns or urgency for a solution could be stated on your site. I am impressed with the US Coast Guard. You all have stepped up to get the truthe out and get the ball rolling. I am concerned the government is going to be so involved that the experts will not talk together and solutions will be slow on the uptake. I want the people who have grease under there nails, who have the knowledge it takes to get this oil under control. We need these people talking and getting the job done yesterday. I want to see people working together. This is huge and it is going to take us all working for a solution to make this happen.
    COME TOGEHTER RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS WHAT I WANT!!!!!!!!

  • Regan Schutte

    I have not seen any referance to this in the news. Bioremediation, Microbes that consume the oil. It has beed developed and used for the past 20 years by the Oppenheimer Biometrics Co. Why is this not being used? The microbes eat the oil and it turns to fish food.

  • robert

    coast guard scared to tell bp to cap the well coast guard has no back bone cap the well or we will find someone who will give then 2weeks and fine bp 5 million a day intill the spill is cap.bp still wants to get oill and have it leak at the SAME TIME . black gold ,better start coming down hard on bp .

  • Evan Kiss

    Why have I not been drafted to start cleaning up this mess? All persons unemployed should be hired TODAY to get there able body to the gulf, and START the physical clean up, that our beaches already need! Its going to take literally millions of man hours to ease the damage.

  • Jim Baldwin

    It appears many of the delays in picking up the oil are caused by the Coast Guard. When is the Coast Guard going to work forand with the people. It appears the Coast Guard is in bed with BP

  • Chuck Phillips

    What is going on ? Who is in charge ? I respect the Coast Guard, but the poor folks on the coast are facing a disaster of epic proportions. The Coast Guard over-rules the Govenor on oil-sucking barges ? The federal government will not allow ships from other countries into the gulf due to a ‘regulation’. C’mon folks – the President & congress can set this law aside for this emergency. I feel as if our elected officials have no clue what to do. God help us if another 9-11 happens. This administration will be lost. Sorry for ventng, but this is frustrating, watching the leaders of our great country founder.

  • Matt Rodman

    I am not at all impressed with the Coast Guard and it’s handling of the oil spill – from the begining it has seemed to be an arm of BP.

    Get out of the way and stop impeding what local government is trying to do. I had always been impressed in the past with the Coast Guard, but have lost that respect during this crisis. It seems as though the Coast Guard management is a typical government bureaucracy. Stand aside if you cannot help. I am dismayed with the need for control by the Coast Guard. Folks are desperate for actionand you may find yourself facing civil disobedience which would be devastating for us all.

  • zaklady bukmacherskie

    Great info, thanks for useful article. I am waiting for more

  • Frin

    Admiral Thad Allen,

    There is still a major disconnect between the powers that be and the public, I know, what else is new… how are we ever going to get anything done?

    Are you just gonna leave the oil and the gulf to just rot and fester?

    I just can’t find any sense of ‘urgency’, more importantly I can’t find or see the clean-up!!

    Really, for the gulf and the animals to have any chance to come back we gotta get this poison out of the water and off the shores. Every day we waste multiplies the amount of time it will take for recovery.

    When you say its gonna take all this time, it gets worse with each day this poison is allowed to interact, ie kill, whatever is still alive! Not only all that but the corexit is still being used and it is pure death!

    WHAT CAN WE DO??? The American Public is distraught, we need real work to do; we must have a way to help!!!

  • Regan Schutte

    I have tried to go to other sites this page listed, Unified Area Command, they are not user friendly, the information I sent is critical to the cleanup of the oil spill but you delete it. Now I find news the the Coast Guard is delaying eight barges with oil cleaning equipment from working, I was right, you have become part of the problem. You ignore the solution.

  • Alo Konsen

    Why is there no response from the Unified Command to Governor Jindal’s problem with the USCG stopping those oil-sucking barges for lack of PFD documentation?

    So far, the latest reference to Governor Jindal is on June 9th.

  • John

    The Coast Guard sure looks to be unconcerned about the OIL Disaster and the impact that it is having on the Gulf. To bad that they decide to be a detriment rather than a link in the chain that would help in this disater. Too bad for the people of the US.

  • Christopher Lagan

    Regan,

    I’m sorry to hear you are having trouble using the online forms we suggested. Your best best might be to call the Unified Area Command directly via one of the many phone numbers listed on the official response site: .

    Respectfully,
    Christopher Lagan
    United States Coast Guard
    Public Affairs

  • Christopher Lagan

    Alo,

    I cannot speak for the Unified Area Command, so your comment is best directed to the Deepwater Horizon Response website.

    Respectfully,
    Christopher Lagan
    United States Coast Guard
    Public Affairs

  • Christopher Lagan

    Matt,

    We appreciate your comment, but it is misdirected. The Coast Guard is not controlling this response. The service is one of many actors – local, state and federal, responding to this spill as part of a Unified Area Command.

    While the environmental disaster the country is facing is unprecedented, the Coast Guard response is also the largest in the history of our service. The federal response, headed by Admiral Allen, is working closely with the many local and state governments impacted by the spill. Given the scale of this incident, there are bound to be differences of opinion on courses of action and allocation of resources but someone has to be in charge and that person, in this case, is Admiral Allen.

    Be assured, however, that government leaders at all levels are working together to minimize the impact of the spill while work continues to stop the oil escaping the well head at the bottom of the Gulf.

    Respectfully,
    Christopher Lagan
    United States Coast Guard
    Public Affairs