Petrobas the company at the center of the oil spill immediately moved into gear and hired a cleanup crew to assess the damages and start the process to cleaning up the affected areas.
The tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) dolphin species inhabit the bay but were able to avoid the primary effects of the oil spill.
[3] The aquatic plant life e.g. (The mangrove in the bay) began to wither and die because of the oil being trapped on the surface of the water.
The Petrobras refinery who were responsible for the spill in the first place, accepted liabilities and promised to execute the cleanup process.
The process of recovery, environmental cleaning and compensation for damages took a significant toll on the company's expenditures, which resulted in great profit loss for Petrobras.
In addition, the Petrobas refinery company also lost a substantial amount of money through fines from the Brazilian Government, as well as, compensation and other strict environmental conservation concerns.
To combat this growing onslaught Petrobas developed some environmental conservation strategies by putting strict methods and policies in place to offset its critics.
Greenpeace (an environmental bureau set up by the government) challenged Petrobras on its demand to observe dramatic changes on corporate policies.
To gain some ground Petrobras argued that the spill was caused, not by dumping of oil, but by a broken pipeline, a mere accident that did not result in customers' being revengeful or unaccommodating.
The local authorities were also affected by the spillage, since it led to the halt of the activities at the coast that would attribute to government revenue collection.
Petrobras Refinery Company was the hardest hit, since they had to pay fines of over 28 million dollars for the damages caused as a result of the oil spill.
In order to drive home the seriousness of the situation the Government established a task force (in addition to Greenpeace) to regulate and enforce the plans that were laid out by the environmental bureau.