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Sep 28

New Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution

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Sometimes a name can tell you a lot. In the past, I’ve told you about my enthusiastic support for a New Orleans group, active on Facebook and the Internet, that’s called “Hear the Music, Stop the Noise.” The title makes a powerful point: That it’s possible for a great American city like my hometown to continue having a spectacular and vibrant music scene without assaulting people’s eardrums and harming their [...]

Posted in Commentary, Important Articles, Main, Regulation Tagged acoustic testing, alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Ursa, well blowout

Sep 27

The sinkhole keeps getting bigger, and so do the lies of Texas Brine Co.

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The crisis involving the Bayou Corne sinkhole in Louisiana just doesn’t stop. In what’s becoming an almost daily headline, the sinkhole grew again, swallowing up more trees and even part of an access road: A 1,500 square-foot section caved in from the edge of a sinkhole in Assumption Parish Tuesday night and pulled down several trees and part of an access road, parish officials said Wednesday. The road was built [...]

Posted in Causes, Main, Regulation, Response, Safety Tagged acoustic testing, alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Ursa, well blowout

Sep 21

Torn on the bayou: Sinkhole keeps getting bigger, more dangerous

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A lot has happened over the last few weeks. In the political world, the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sees a new kerfuffle every few hours. Down here in Louisiana, we’ve been whacked by Hurricane Isaac, and on the environmental front we’re still trying to get BP to pay its fair share for all the havoc it’s wreaked in the Gulf. But there’s one thing that hasn’t [...]

Posted in Main, Regulation, Response, Safety Tagged acoustic testing, alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Ursa, well blowout

Sep 21

News Round-Up: September 21, 2012

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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:

Faculty Fights Fracking

Sampling Continues at Bayou Corne as Sinkhole Expands

Red Tea Ceremony Raises Awareness for Fukushima

Posted in Main, News Round-Up, Uncategorized Tagged BP Lawsuit, Fracking, Fukushima, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hydraulic Fracturing, Hydrofracking, Nuclear radiation, Oil Spill Bp, Oil Spill Gulf, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radioactive Material, Response, Stuart Smith Cleanup Efforts

Sep 20

A temporary reprieve from Shell’s risky and reckless Arctic drilling scheme

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For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been consumed with the never-ending fallout from BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. Some 29 months after the explosion that killed 11 people and spewed 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we’ve seen a hurricane toss BP’s oil onto our once pristine beaches all over again. And we’ve also been fighting it out in the legal arena — to make sure [...]

Posted in Main, Oil Spill Facts, Regulation, Safety Tagged acoustic testing, alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Ursa, well blowout

Sep 14

Louisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac

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In recent months, I’ve joined with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and others in calling for the state’s Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to be stripped of its powers and for the federal Environmental Protection Administration, or EPA, to take over. This is not an idea that I toss around lightly. Time and time again, Louisiana’s DEQ has shown that it’s simply unable or unwilling to do its job: Keeping [...]

Sep 13

Now, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR

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You’ve got to say this about British Petroleum — they have some nerve. For more than two years, we’ve been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster — the sick and deformed seafood, the dead zones and the depleted oyster beds, the oiled marshlands and the dying dolphins, and the clean-up workers with crippling health issues. But now, after Hurricane Isaac whipped up some of the estimated 1 million [...]

Posted in Legal, Main, Ocean Life, Recovery, Restoration, Spill Damages Tagged acoustic testing, alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Ursa, well blowout

Sep 13

News Round-Up: September 13, 2012

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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:

Anti-Fracking Groups Organize Nationwide Rallies

BP Covered Up Oil, Swept Up Liability Exposed Prompt New Ad Blitz

Nuclear Sector Seeks to Regain Trust After Fukushima

Posted in Main, News Round-Up Tagged BP Lawsuit, Fracking, Fukushima, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hydraulic Fracturing, Hydrofracking, Nuclear radiation, Oil Spill Bp, Oil Spill Gulf, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radioactive Material, Response, Stuart Smith Cleanup Efforts

Sep 12

We object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”

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The last couple of weeks have brought a lot of news – both good and bad – down here to the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaac was a double whammy; the storm itself destroyed homes and upended people’s lives, but it also stirred up a ton of BP’s oil. There’s believed to be as much as 1 million barrels of oil still polluting our waters, some 29 months after the Deepwater [...]

Posted in Claims, Important Articles, Legal, Main, Spill Damages, Victim Claims Tagged acoustic testing, alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Ursa, well blowout

Sep 12

News Round-Up: September 12, 2012

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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:

West Virginia Gas Drilling Opponents Call For Halt To New Development

BP Proposes Deep Cleaning of Louisiana Beaches in Aftermath of Hurricane Isaac

Disaster-Area Kids Under Hard Stress

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Tag Archives: Radioactive Material

New Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution

The sinkhole keeps getting bigger, and so do the lies of Texas Brine Co.

Torn on the bayou: Sinkhole keeps getting bigger, more dangerous

News Round-Up: September 21, 2012

A temporary reprieve from Shell’s risky and reckless Arctic drilling scheme

Louisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac

Now, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR

News Round-Up: September 13, 2012

We object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”

News Round-Up: September 12, 2012

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