Monthly Archives: June 2010
The White House commission investigating the BP oil spill will hold its first hearing in New Orleans on July 12-13, the panel’s co-chairman said. William Reilly, a Republican and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President George H.W. Bush, told the Financial Times in Brussels it is important that local residents be allowed to speak out on the environmental disaster. “The region deserves a voice,” he said. “People there have [...]
Read More »The oil has come ashore on Mississippi beaches, and state officials are all of a sudden genuinely pissed off despite the fact that the landfall was a foregone conclusion six weeks ago. They find themselves watching in horror as their state’s economy heads into a free fall as the oil rolls in wave after wave…just in time for the huge July 4th holiday weekend. Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, U.S. Rep. [...]
Read More »News reports today say that BP’s contingency plan did NOT factor in hurricanes. You’ve got to file this one under “tell me you’re kidding.” When you’re working in open water 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, it doesn’t take a degree in meteorology and planning to know that you need to take an enormous factor like hurricanes into account….unless, of course, the clowns writing the plan live in England [...]
Read More »New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP’s efforts to contain the largest oil spill in U.S. history are being disrupted by towering waves reaching up to 12 feet in height, company officials said. Even though Hurricane Alex — which was upgraded from tropical storm status late Tuesday night — is headed away from the area affected by the oil spill, its winds and the waves the storm is producing are forcing [...]
Read More »PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. — An effort to save thousands of sea turtle hatchlings from dying in the oily Gulf of Mexico will begin in the coming weeks in a desperate attempt to keep an entire generation of threatened species from vanishing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will coordinate the plan, which calls for collecting about 70,000 turtle eggs in up to 800 nests buried in the sand across Florida [...]
Read More »The ramifications of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill go far beyond Louisiana and even the United States, with the potential to affect oil drilling around the world, an environmental engineer and longtime investigator of such disasters said Tuesday night at a Tulane University forum. Given these grim possibilities, everyone in government and industry needs to take time to ensure the repairs are done properly, said Robert Bea, an engineering [...]
Read More »Early on June 5, 2008, a piece of steel tubing ruptured on BP PLC’s vast Atlantis oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The tubing was attached to a defective pipeline pump that BP had put off repairing, in what an internal report later described as “the context of a tight cost budget.” The rupture caused a minor spill, just 193 barrels of oil, but BP investigators identified bigger concerns. [...]
Read More »Gov. Haley Barbour condemns a lack of resources; Rep. Gene Taylor is ‘dumbfounded’ by ‘wasted effort, wasted money and stupidity.’ Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Alex approaches. As the shores of Biloxi, Miss., took their turn being slimed by oil Monday, Mississippi officials including Gov. Haley Barbour slammed the federal government and BP for failing to capture the crude offshore. At a news conference Monday, Barbour said that “the plan we agreed [...]
Read More »BP has opened an oil spill claims office in Clearwater, the first in the Tampa Bay area. Businesses and individuals can file claims seven days a week at the office at 2551 Drew Street, according to BP. The company established 11 other Florida claims offices, mostly in the Panhandle area.
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