Thursday, June 3, 2010
BP’s “flotels” are forty-foot containers
With no Marriott, Hilton or Holiday Inn hotels nearby, BP is housing hundreds of oil-spill clean-up workers on the Louisiana coast in "flotels" - 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes that contain dormitory style beds, the Associated Press reports.
The white boxes that resemble giant shipping containers are stacked atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the story says. The 1,300-acre shipyard that serves as the oil industry's Gulf hub is surrounded by sensitive marshes, the story says.
BP is installing flotels as it ramps up coastal clean-up efforts, since the latest "top kill" solution failed last weekend and relief is at least two months away, the AP reports. More than 125 miles of Louisiana's coastline has already been hit with oil, including the resort of Grand Isle near Port Fourchon, the story says.
-USA Today
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