Independent News‘BP Disaster’ Archives
BP’d Off
While BP, along with federal and state governments, appear ready to move into the restoration phase of post-spill efforts, there are others who are hung up on claims. Like David Helland, who runs a charter boat out of Dauphin Island, Ala. “Ken Feinberg and BP promised to make me whole, and [...]
BP settles with blowout preventer manufacturer
Oil giant BP has agreed a settlement with contractor Cameron International, designer and manufacturer of the he blow-out preventer on the Deepwater Horizon rig. Under the agreement, which settles all claims between the firms, Cameron will pay BP $250m, that will be added to the $20-billion trust [...]
RESTORE Act Fines Could Provide Job Opportunities on Gulf Coast
The RESTORE Act would ensure that 80 percent of the fines from the BP oil spill last year would go to restore the Gulf region. EDF Press Release -- The Clean Water Act penalties from last year’s BP oil disaster could kick start the launch of a long-term investment in ecosystem restoration [...]
Bargain Basement BP-Boom
Still searching for Christmas gifts? How about 3,000 feet of hard boom left over from the 2010 oil spill? The City of Orange Beach, Ala., is auctioning off its surplus boom on govdeals.com. “We’d all be happy to get $10,000,” said Phillip West, the city’s coastal resources [...]
Evil vs. Evil
BP is accusing Halliburton of destroying evidence which could show the company shares the blame for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a filing today in a New Orleans federal court, BP charged that Halliburton Energy Services Inc. destroyed test results that indicated samples of the [...]
Gulf Summit Focuses on Spill, Restoration
Government and industry leaders will begin their four-day State of the Gulf of Mexico Summit today in Houston. Sponsored by The Harte Research Institute, the event will focus on the health of the Gulf and the future of its ecosystem. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson [...]
BP re-oilings plague La. shores and marshes
The Daily Comet reports that tar balls continue to wash up on the Louisiana shores. Oil is everywhere. It sits beneath the sand in layers, left there when crude began washing up after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010 and later covered by the wind and waves that [...]
BP Hypocrasy
BP, whose rush for profits has killed dozens of Americans in the past six years, actually has created on their website a page for statements on their values...and there is no mention of stock dividends, bonuses for senior management or adding to their bottom-line. This is what BP says it stands [...]
Hooray, BP is running more tourism ads
BP Press Release: BP announced today that it is expanding its Gulf Coast tourism advertising campaign with new ads highlighting this year’s successful tourism season debuting Monday, November 21st in broadcast markets around the country. The new television spot, titled “Best Season,” is [...]
IN Cover: Ills of the Spill
IN reporter Jeremy Morrison spent a month traveling the gulf coast attending meetings and listening to stories of people worried about the impact of the BP oil disaster on human health, particularly the health of the fishermen who used their boats to clean-up the crude oil. We need to be [...]
BP faces probation
I wrote about it two weeks again. BP is serial criminal. Federal prosecutors in Alaska agree. They have alleged BP, one of the three big oil producers operating on Alaska's North Slope, is “a recidivist offender and repeated violator of environmental laws and regulations.” They are calling for [...]
BP Sticks Around (Sort of)
The man at BP’s claim’s facility Tuesday night couldn’t speculate about the decision to keep the doors open. He could only provide a freshly printed flyer with the new hours of operation. That was news to Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson. “Oh, are they staying open?” he [...]