Coast Guard: Rear Adm. Landry Stepping Down As Federal Oil Spill Coordinator
June 01 2010 - 12:26PM
Dow Jones News
U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry is stepping down from her
role as federal on-scene coordinator for the BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) oil
spill response to lead the agency's preparations for hurricane
season, the Coast Guard said Monday.
Landry will return to her role as Commander of the Coast Guard's
Eighth District June 1. Coast Guard commandant Adm. Robert Papp
said in a statement that her return at the beginning of hurricane
season "has been the strategy since the beginning of this
response."
Rear Adm. James Watson, who has acted as Landry's deputy in the
handling of the BP oil spill since April 23, will become the new
federal on-scene coordinator.
The move comes after BP failed at what seemed a promising
attempt to stop a mile-deep oil leak in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by
injecting heavy fluids. The failure has triggered sharp criticism
from the government and the public. Now BP plans to cut a broken
riser and replace it with a siphon to capture crude and send it to
the surface.
Hurricane season, which starts June 1 and lasts through
November, is expected to be more active this year than last
year.
-ByAngel Gonzalez, Dow Jones Newswires;
713-547-9214;angel.gonzalez@dowjones.com
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