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The Weeks Bay Principles for Gulf Recovery
On October 4-6, 2010, ninety-five people representing forty-six community, local, regional, national and international environmental, social justice, and fishermen’s groups, met at the Beckwith Camp and Conference Center on Weeks Bay, Alabama. The meeting was sponsored by Gulf Restoration Network, Gulf Coast Fund and Save Our Gulf (a coalition of Gulf of Mexico Waterkeeper programs working on the BP oil disaster). Together, we drafted the following set of goals and [...]
Read More »WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking his family to the Florida Panhandle for a weekend trip billed as part family vacation, part presidential sales pitch, as he looks to boost the region’s sagging tourism industry in the aftermath of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The president, first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha (her sister Malia is at summer camp) planned to spend much of their [...]
Read More »US Department of Justice The criminal investigation into BP represents the most serious – and potentially costly – inquiry. Eric Holder, attorney-general, has said that DoJ attorneys are reviewing possible violations of environmental and wildlife protection laws, which hold parties liable for clean-up costs and injuries to wildlife. Of these statutes, the Clean Water Act could be the most costly. Under the law, operators in charge of any vessel from [...]
Read More »New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley sought to reassure jittery Gulf of Mexico residents Friday that the massive British corporation will not abandon them once the ruptured well responsible for the oil disaster has been permanently sealed. Dudley, currently the company’s managing director, stressed during a visit to Mississippi that BP has made a “long-term commitment” to the region. “We’ll be here for years,” he said. [...]
Read More »BP has received one of the biggest maulings in corporate history over the past three months as it struggled to contain the oil gushing from its well in the Gulf of Mexico. Newspapers, TV anchors, senators and even the U.S. President lined up to kick the company’s butt and vilify its boss, Tony Hayward. Now, just a couple of days after Hayward threw in the towel and resigned for the [...]
Read More »The White House has some tough questions to answer about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in light of a new report from the Center for Public Integrity [1]. In the critical first days after the explosion, the U.S. Coast Guard disregarded its own firefighting policy and might have caused the oil rig to sink — prompting the leak that resulted in the largest oil spill in U.S. history. New evidence unearthed [...]
Read More »This is the transcript of National Incident Commander Thad Allen’s briefing with reporters July 29 on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The transcript was ditributed by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center. Thad Allen: Thank you, Megan. Let me give you a quick operational update and then I’d like to discuss the meeting I had this morning with Governor Jindal and the Louisiana Parish presidents. We continue to [...]
Read More »HOUMA, La. — Loulan Pitre Sr. was born on the Gulf Coast in 1921, the son of an oysterman. Nearly all his life, he worked on the water, abiding by the widely shared faith that the resources of the Gulf of Mexico were limitless. As a young Marine staff sergeant, back home after fighting in the South Pacific, he stood on barges in the gulf and watched as surplus mines, [...]
Read More »WASHINGTON – The administrator of a $20 billion Gulf oil spill compensation fund said Tuesday that he will disclose the salary BP is paying him, after initially declining to do so. Ken Feinberg told The Associated Press Tuesday that he plans to reveal the sum in the next couple of weeks, after the fund has an operational budget. It’s slated to be up and running next month. “I don’t want [...]
Read More »With documented evidence and testimony that BP has failed to preserve air and water samples containing oil, organic compounds and/or dispersant releases related to the DEEPWATER HORIZON catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, attorneys representing the United Commercial Fishermen of Louisiana, environmental organizations, public entities and businesses in states impacted by the disaster entered the U.S District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana to preserve samples which they believe are critical [...]
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