{"id":1359,"date":"2010-06-17T04:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2010-06-17T04:28:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:28:06","slug":"keysnews-com-city-insists-on-local-oil-response-bp-may-not-repay-marathon-for-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/06\/17\/keysnews-com-city-insists-on-local-oil-response-bp-may-not-repay-marathon-for-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Keysnews.com: City insists on local oil response; BP may not repay Marathon for costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BY MARC PHELPS<\/p>\n

AND TIMOTHY O\u2019HARA<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/strong>Citizen Staff<\/p>\n

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Marathon will lead its own oil spill response for the Middle Keys \u2014 one focused on prevention \u2014 despite BP\u2019s warning that it won\u2019t foot the bill if the city\u2019s efforts are subpar or duplicate.<\/p>\n

The Marathon City Council criticized BP\u2019s response plan for only addressing cleaning up after oil polluted the Florida Keys. The council\u2019s decision represents the latest rise in temperature as pressure from residents \u2014 and possibly election candidates \u2014 heats up the rhetoric among BP, local officials and the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n

Councilman Dick Ramsay chastised BP and the Coast Guard for being \u201cevasive,\u201d and demanded answers to a list of questions he provided at a forum the council hosted Monday night in the Marathon High School auditorium.<\/p>\n

In attendance were U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, state Rep. Ron Saunders, D-Key West, Monroe County Commissioner Mario Di Gennaro and a group of sometimes rowdy citizens. They peppered BP Vice President of Policy and U.S. Regulatory Affairs Mark Stultz, who is temporarily stationed in the Keys, and Coast Guard Sector Key West commander Capt. Pat DeQuattro with questions about available resources should oil from the Gulf of Mexico geyser reach the Middle Keys.<\/p>\n

Stultz assured the audience his focus was \u201con mitigating the impacts,\u201d with the most significant part of that being the claims process.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/pdf.keysnews.com\/frontpage.pdf\u00a0 BY MARC PHELPS AND TIMOTHY O\u2019HARA Citizen Staff Marathon will lead its own oil spill response for the Middle Keys \u2014 one focused on prevention \u2014 despite BP\u2019s warning that it won\u2019t foot the bill if the city\u2019s efforts are subpar or duplicate. The Marathon City Council criticized BP\u2019s response plan for only addressing … Continue reading Keysnews.com: City insists on local oil response; BP may not repay Marathon for costs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}