Author: Rick Outzen
BP abandons top kill
As I predicted, BP is telling media that top kill is not working. Option 3b is to saw off riser and reconnect hose. Only the…
Prisoners used by BP at Dauphin Island
Visiting Dauphin Island,Ala. today. No tarballs, shore lined with hay. BP has a staging area under heavy security. Controversy over BP contractor using work release…
News: BP buses in workers for Obama visit
WDSU in New Orleans is reporting: Officials from Jefferson Parish claim BP bused 400 cleanup workers into Grand Isle on Friday in time for a…
Nodine sits in jail
…and, according to the Mobile Press Register, the Feds want to keep him there. The former Mobile County Commissioner resigned this past week to avoid…
Buzz: Crist moves TDC meeting
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has moved the meeting with tourism officials from Northwest Florida from today to Sunday. It’s anticipated that he will announce his…
Buzz: Top kill is failing
My engineering sources are saying the top kill option isn’t working. They can’t overcome the pressure from the oil. We will have to endure this…
Coastkeeper update
Press release: Flow rate update, with information from the Incident Command: The National Incident Command’s Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) has developed an independent estimate…
City Attorney memo: City Council has some control over BP boom ops
Pensacola City Attorney Rusty Wells has sent the City Council a memo, “Pensacola-Based Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cleanup Measures,” that while the City can’t stop…
FLRA launches Coast is Clear campaign
While Gov. Crist plays politics and misses the opportunity to help Gulf Coast businesses on this four-day weekend and WEAR/Sinclair offers a too little-too late…
WEAR TV will promote clean beaches next week
Press release from WEAR TV: WEAR ABC 3 TO SPREAD THE WORD THAT OUR BEACHES ARE CLEAN AND CLEAR Pensacola, FL –WEAR ABC 3 is…
Buzz: Crist drops match requirement
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist may be rethinking his plans for spending the $25 million that BP gave the state for tourism advertising. A memorandum of…
Emotions run high, Anybody seen Miller?
Rep. Charlie Melancon gets emotional while talking about the impact of the Gulf oil spill on his state.
Thomas barely holds on to Paul FCAT gains
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas dismisses the one point drop in FCAT reading scores for third graders in the Friday edition of the BP marketing solution, Pensacola…
Three Little Pigs, Friday roundup
Montreal Gazette: “According to Florida publisher Rick Outzen, writing in the dailybeast.com..” Read more Notes from Grumpy Old Man (not C.C. Elebash): Obama Doctrine –…
What’s up with Jerralds?
Pensacola City Councilman John Jerralds apologized at last night’s council meeting to BP for the council’s harsh response Monday to BP spokeswoman Liz Castro last…
Devilliers Night – Tonight
Press Release: Pensacola, Florida: The Devilliers Cultural Heritage Museum will host Devilliers Night, Friday, May 28, 2010 by featuring the superb Neo-Soul Gospel group ‘KMM’…
Uncensored photos of BP oil disaster
From Michael O’Donovan: I had the privilege to fly today from Gulf Shores out to the BP well site, over the Mississippi delta, and coastal…
BP: “We have not stopped the flow.”
We may have spoken too soon. Operation Top Kill could take 24-48 more hours before we know if it has worked. In the top kill…
Crist withholds funds for Panhandle
Gov. Charlie Crist will be on Pensacola Beach tomorrow for an appearance on Fox & Friends around 7:15 a.m. Shortly after that national TV appearance,…
BP Protest Downtown
About 30 people showed up for a scheduled protest of BP in Plaza Ferdinand. The group known as Hear Our Voice To Save Our Coast,…
