BP fines to add 300 more jobs for GC

Three hundred conservation jobs will open by 2020 in the five Gulf Coast states as a result of $7 million in penalties being levied in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster. Employment for the new GulfCorps organization will ramp up gradually to a grand total of 60 for each state by 2020, Jeff DeQuattro, director of restoration for The Nature Conservancy and program director for GulfCorps, said Aug. 10. Recruiting is to begin in October “with boots on the ground in January," he claimed. Discussion meetings regarding potential projects are to begin Aug. 11. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and RESTORE Council representatives from each state will work with GulfCorps to decide specific projects in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. (Source: NOLA.com 08/10/17)