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Shrimpers will test area waters starting Monday
HOUMA – It’s an unusual shrimp-season opening, a window of five days during which boats can work specified waters well within Louisiana’s three-mile territorial limits. But fishermen preparing to drop their nets Monday morning say they are ready for the challenge and hope this mini-season, nearly a month in advance of the state’s traditional May opening, will provide clues to how things will be for the rest of the year. [...]
Read More »BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) – A federal agency’s practice of returning weakened dolphins to deeper Gulf of Mexico waters is thwarting efforts to probe dolphin deaths after last year’s BP oil spill, scientists said on Saturday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, meanwhile, confirmed that two dolphins stranded in low tide on the Louisiana coastline were returned to water deep enough for them to swim away. “These animals had no signs [...]
Read More »GULFPORT, Miss. – The BP oil spill is a year old this week, the whole disaster having killed or injured 28 rig workers, thousands of birds and hundreds of marine animals, and spewed 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico over three months. The disaster has helped to shine an intense spotlight on a Gulf already suffering from human encroachment with 4,000 to 8,000 square miles of [...]
Read More »State officials’ decision to turn on a number of freshwater diversions full blast to block oil from entering coastal wetlands on both sides of the Mississippi River – a strategy that decimated private and public oyster beds – was not approved by the Unified Command overseeing the response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a senior BP official said Friday. “Having been a part of this [...]
Read More »BP officials tried to take control of a $500m fund pledged by the oil company for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, it has emerged. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show BP officials openly discussing how to influence the work of scientists supported by the fund, which was created by the oil company in May last year. Russell Putt, a BP [...]
Read More »As the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill approaches next week, areas along the Gulf Coast are still plagued by “chronic re-oiling” from balls of oil and sand that wash ashore after breaking free from submerged mats of degraded oil and sediments, according to officials overseeing federal cleanup efforts. The “surface residue balls” – yet another term in an ever-expanding oil-spill lexicon that includes tarballs and oil mousse – [...]
Read More »Tokyo (CNN) – The owners of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant must start paying 1 million yen ($12,000) to households displaced or forced indoors by the nuclear accident there, Japan’s government ordered Friday. The Tokyo Electric Power Company will start handing out checks “as smoothly and as early as possible,” hopefully by April 28, its president, Masataku Shimizu, told reporters. Individual residents will receive 750,000 yen and households will [...]
Read More »GULF SHORES, Ala. – Coastal leaders say tarballs from the Gulf oil spill are still hitting Alabama beaches, and they say daily cleanup work is still needed. Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft says workers have collected more than 9,600 pounds of tarballs on the Alabama coast in the last two weeks. He says that’s reason enough to keep workers on the beach every morning. BP says daily maintenance and monitoring [...]
Read More »The “Mission Accomplished” narrative scripted by BP and its allies in the Obama Administration keeps getting harder to sell as the one-year anniversary of the spill approaches. If it’s not dead dolphins washing ashore or new oil hitting our beaches or more cleanup workers getting sick, it’s those pesky independent researchers ruining everything by refusing to follow the “official” talking points. Try as they might, BP and the federal government [...]
Read More »BP was facing angry protesters and disgruntled shareholders on Thursday at its first annual general meeting since a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The meeting in London is taking place almost a year since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and caused millions of barrels of oil to spew into the sea. Bob Dudley, the American who took over as chief executive in [...]
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