Statoil (now Equinor) sent a representative to answer questions from the community and apologize for the fire and any inconveniences their operations had caused the people of Monroe County. They claimed they would continue operation of their wells in the area as they had special teams designated for environmental concerns and emergency responses [10]. They assured safety of the air as “over 300,000 remote-telemetering readings have been collected within the work-site and adjacent community” with “no detections of volatile organic compounds, acid gases and/or carbon monoxide had been observed in their community” [10]. Statoil vowed to clean up the large number of fish that were killed from the chemicals used on site. They also pledged to continue soil and water monitoring within a radius of 5,000 feet around the site [10]. They claimed that everything was getting back to normal through the clean up process. The community seemed to have accepted their response and apology as no movements to kick Statoil out of Monroe County emerged from the fire.
