![]() ![]() Fish & Wildlife Service, in an interview. “The Open Ocean TIG is the only TIG that can implement restoration projects outside of the Gulf Coast region,” said Nanciann Regalado, public outreach coordinator for the U.S. Five of the TIGs are designed to help each Gulf state directly impacted by the spill, while a sixth focuses on regional projects along the Gulf Coast. In the adjacent Dakotas, a separate but similar project was awarded $6.2 million.īoth projects are being managed by the Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group, one of seven TIGs created by the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustee Council with the intent of spending up to $8.8 billion in damages BP agreed to pay as part of a 2016 settlement agreement. (CN) - In the state of Minnesota, some 1,100 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico, a wildlife project is being funded with $7.5 million in settlement money from BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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