Mead Treadwell is a former spill response coordinator for the state's Department of Environmental Conservation.
Former BP engineer Kurt Mix was charged with deleting text messages about the company's spill response.
Authorities said United States Environmental Services, an oil spill response company, was collecting oily water.
But relative to the spill response, we find that they are doing what they should be doing.
The result was the Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC), an independent, nonprofit company.
On Wednesday, government officials overseeing the cleanup recalled 125 boats working on the spill response in Breton Sound, east of New Orleans.
Foreign-flagged vessels are not required to carry plans for oil spill response or salvage, except for ports where they intend to dock.
The remaining criminal count pertains to two BP communications made to a member of Congress during the spill response about flow rate estimates.
"We don't want the cure to be worse than the disease, " said Glenn Plumb, a National Park Service official involved in the oil-spill response.
While it was being towed, the Kulluk was accompanied by a Coast Guard cutter and two oil-spill response ships, the incident response team said.
The Unified Command said three additional tugs are on standby along with the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley and two oil spill response vessels.
An oil spill response barge, the Arctic Challenger, which Shell promised the U.S. Coast Guard was "Arctic ready, " is in Washington state, beset with technical problems.
But he acknowledged that he'd have to earn the trust of fishermen and others who say they've received conflicting information about the oil spill response from BP and various government agencies.
"Monitoring by the oil spill response vessels escorting the tow confirmed that there were no signs of a discharge of oil during the transit, " the team said in a news release.
We will not let up on our vigilance and observation to ensure that they continue to bring everything possible to bear to manage this spill response and to prevent damage to fragile ecosystems.
The company's response to the leak was faulted by the NTSB, which said the initial work done by the company's employees was ineffective and the closest spill response contractor was 10 hours away.
Mr. MEAD TREADWELL (Former Spill Response Coordinator, Department of Environmental Conservation): We thought, or at least I thought, as one of the decision-makers that nature was going to take care of the issue.
Cairn had claimed that the raid on its Edinburgh offices was part of a GPI-led Greenpeace campaign to get hold of Cairns's oil spill response plan and encourage a moratorium on drilling in the Arctic.
It finds that out of 50 deepwater risk disclosure scores on key metrics including spill response procedures and drilling risk management, only four scores were good, and 29 (nearly 60 percent) were poor or no disclosure.
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Earlier this month, Greenpeace claimed Gazprom's oil spill response plan went out of date in July and says that - according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency - the company has not submitted or approved a new one.
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The NTSB staff concluded that if the required oil spill-response plan had been thoroughly reviewed before the leak, it would not have been approved.
On Wednesday, Canada will take over the council chairmanship in a meeting that will include signing a treaty on oil-spill preparedness and response as well as the decision on whether to increase the roster of permanent observers, with India, Japan, Italy and the European Union joining China and others on the list.
And as the spill has changed, our response has had to change.
President Barack Obama, who has been under pressure to show a strong response to the spill, said he was committed to standing by communities along the Gulf Coast well beyond the final sealing of the well.
That decision seems to be a knee-jerk reaction based on an emotional response to the spill, and made without a full appreciation of the consequences which will adversely impact tens of thousands of hard working people who are engaged in the industry.
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Calm analysis, therefore, may ultimately suggest policy changes in response to the Gulf spill.
Hurricane season in the Gulf began on Tuesday, threatening to further complicate the response to the oil spill.
It is from this staging area and 16 others like it all across the Gulf Coast that our response to the oil spill is being carried out.
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Mix was charged last year with deleting text messages about the company's response to the Gulf oil spill.
It was just like his belated, ineffectual response on the BP oil spill.
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