NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Public agencies in the New Orleans area have accepted about a quarter-billion dollars from BP for economic losses resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune’s Ben Myers reports the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East accepted Thursday an $8.2 million offer for itself, as well as $1 million on behalf of the Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority.
The management authority oversees property such as Lakefront Airport and Orleans Marina that are owned by the Orleans Levee District, which is folded into the regional flood protection authority.
BP has agreed to set aside as much as $1 billion to local governments as part of its $18.7 billion settlement with five states and the federal government. The deal results from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
There are now 22 New Orleans-area entities that have accepted offers worth a combined $249.3 million. Plaquemines Parish and the Town of Jean Lafitte refused settlements.
Those accepting settlements are:
Audubon Commission $3.5 million
Covington $1.5 million
Gretna $3.3 million
Harahan $608,777
Jefferson Parish $53.1 million
Jefferson Parish School Board $32.7 million
Kenner $9.3 million
Lafourche Parish $8.1 million
Mandeville $2.1 million
New Orleans $45 million
Non-Flood Protection
Asset Management Authority $1 million
Northshore Harbor Center $217,283
Orleans Parish School Board $22.7 million
Plaquemines Parish School Board $10.5 million
Port of Plaquemines $155,300
St. Bernard Parish $9.3 million
St. Tammany Parish $16.8 million
St. Tammany Parish School Board $15.4 million
Slidell $3 million
Southeast Louisiana Flood
Protection Authority-East $8.2 million
Southeast Louisiana Flood
Protection Authority-West $2 million
Westwego $823,023
