Gulf of Mexico BP reached an $18.7bn settlement with the US government, the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, as well as 400 local authorities. To date BP's cost for the clean-up, environmental and economic damages and penalties has reached $54bn. According to the National Response Center, the oil industry has thousands of minor accidents in the Gulf of Mexico every year. On May 12, 2016, a release of oil from subsea infrastructure on Shell's "Brutus" oil rig released 2,100 barrels of oil. This leak created a visible 2 mile by 13 mile oil slick in the sea about 97 miles
Gulf of Mexico Foundation certainly stepped in a hole and we're going to have to work ourselves out of it, but it isn't the end of the Gulf of Mexico. While the story did not mention the Foundation's ties to the oil industry, two days later, the New York Times added an editors note that said the foundation "... receives some money from the oil industry, and other business interests in the gulf, and includes industry executives on its board." The paper's blog also questioned Dokken's objectiveness, reporting, "But as an executive (Dokken) whose fortunes are tied to partnerships between his group and the