[net-gold] ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION : WATER POLLUTION : OIL SPILLS : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM: 'Spillionaires' Cleaning Up On the BP Oil Spill
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- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:27:00 -0400 (EDT)
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ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION :
WATER POLLUTION :
OIL SPILLS :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM:
'Spillionaires' Cleaning Up On the BP Oil Spill
'Spillionaires' Cleaning Up On the BP Oil Spill
Like Exxon Valdez disaster, BP's calamity in the Gulf of Mexico Has Meant
Business Opportunities
By RAY SANCHEZ
July 30, 2010
ABC News
<http://abcnews.go.com/Business/
spillionaires-cleaning-bp-oil-spill/story?id=11280500>
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Mark Miller, whose environmental clean-up firm has hired nearly 1,500
workers in the Gulf Coast in the past month, takes issue with the term
"spillionaire" -- those who are cleaning up from the oil cleanup.
<snip>
Like the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, British Petroleum's
calamity in the Gulf of Mexico has turned into a lucrative business
opportunity for many locals and outsiders. Exxon spent nearly $4.3 billion
in cleanup and legal costs after that disaster, the most expensive at the
time. Experts have estimated that BP will spend more than $20 billion on
the cleanup alone, and that will mean a new generation of "spillionaires."
Gunnar Knapp, professor of economics at the University of Alaska in
Anchorage, said the Exxon spill benefitted the financially-strapped state
in hard economic terms, spawning a local oil-spill-cleanup industry. These
oil cleanup entrepreneurs undoubtedly contributed to the state's 21
straight years of economic growth.
<snip>
In May, Miller set up shop in a vacant Kia auto dealership in Mississippi.
His firm initially responded with about two dozen people and a small fleet
of vessels that sucked up oil in shallow waters. Soon he was supplying
crews in Mississippi and Florida to clean up beaches and marshes. In the
last month, he hired nearly 1,500 workers.
"There were people available who had skill sets that are very applicable
to oil spills: boat operations, mechanically inclined people, folks who
had local knowledge of the waters," he said. "By June, the demand came to
basically double the resources. That's when we went full out looking to
the local labor pool. We started screening people and set up a whole HR
department to conduct interviews and background checks."
Miller would not reveal the value of the cleanup contracts his firm has
received but said the extra work came after a decline in business in 2009.
He believes the BP spill will transform the oil cleanup industry.
"There are a number of companies that are going to be flush with cash and
I believe they're going to reinvest in capital equipment," he said. "I
think they'll be expansions of offices and you're see companies that have
not had the opportunity to participate in the spill becoming ripe for
acquisition by the companies that have been involved. We are already
looking at some opportunities for acquisitions."
The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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