Independent News‘BP Disaster’ Archives
Boos for Bondi
I'm writing weekly for the website Florida Voices. My columns are published every Wednesday. My latest on Pam Bondi and BP - http://www.floridavoices.com/columns/rick-outzen/bondi-sides-bp-against-gulf-coast-businesses-citizens
The Doctor Is In
The GuLF STUDY—a federal exploration into possible health impacts following the 2010 oil spill—is heading south for another tour. “Just Florida this time,” said Dr. Dale Sandler, as she prepared for her trip. Sandler, chief of the epidemiology branch at the National Institute of [...]
Bondi goes after attorneys representing those hurt by BP disaster
Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed a brief in the multi-district oil spill proceedings in New Orleans challenging a plan to take hundreds of millions of dollars from the individual and business claimants who have decided to pursue non-litigation recoveries through the claims process required [...]
The ‘Make Us Whole’ Boat Ramps
How will we be ‘made whole’ following the 2010 oil spill? For starters, how about some boat ramps for $4.4 million? Over the next few weeks, the Gulf Coast public is being asked to weigh in on potential restoration projects laid out in the Deepwater Horizon Draft Phase I Early Restoration [...]
Oil Spill Restoration Meeting
The second in a series of meetings to explore early oil-spill restoration will be held tonight at the University of West Florida. The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustees are seeking public comment on the Deepwater Horizon Draft Phase I Early Restoration Plan and [...]
BP clean-up contractors say they are owed millions
Biloxi Sun Herald reports the companies that responded to the BP oil catastrophe claim that they are still fighting for payments due from the time the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded in the Gulf in April 2010. Several contractors told the Sun Herald their businesses have suffered because of [...]
Oil Spill Health Study Comes to Town
Following the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers of various stripes have been studying the disaster’s possible impacts. What did the spill do to the environment? What did the spill do to the Gulf region’s economics? And, what did the oil spill do to us? Next week, [...]
From the Obvious Dept: New study shows BP oil spill was avoidable
The risk management company Licata Risk Advisors calls the BP Gulf oil spill "the worst risk management story, and the best risk management story." The company believes the spill illustrates how a working risk management program could have (would have) prevented the disaster. According to [...]
Reading Between BP’s Lines
BP’s latest PR blitz—stressing the company’s ‘ongoing commitment’—has a glitch. It hides amidst shots of sparkling beaches and good times on the Gulf Coast. You’ve got to look quick, but there they are, just under a minute into the new commercial. On a strip of sun-drenched sand, [...]
BP Gulf Coast Claims Facility halts payments
This notice is on the GCCF website: IMPORTANT NOTICE In an Order and Reasons of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, dated December 28, 2011, the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (“GCCF”) has been ordered to withhold 6% of any and all amounts determined to be [...]
BP to party at Sugar Bowl like its pre-2010
Press Release: The Allstate Sugar Bowl Committee yesterday announced the 2012 Gulf Coast Seafood & Tourism Bash presented by BP in conjunction with the Allstate Sugar Bowl and the Allstate BCS National Championship. The Gulf Coast Seafood & Tourism Bash will be a two-week celebration of Gulf Coast [...]
Cameron loses appeal in BP case
Bloomberg reports Cameron International Corp. lost its appeal to derail the February nonjury trial over which companies should be blamed for the 2010 BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected Cameron's claim that U.S. District Judge [...]