Category: BP Disaster
The Daily Beast picks up story
I spent much of my weekend working on stories for The Daily Beast. The first article was published this morning: “The Gulf of Mexico’s Seafood…
Drill, baby, drill makes a comeback
St. Pete Times: In the year since the giant oil spill, political tides and public opinion seem to have shifted. One poll suggests growing support…
BP reneges on $15 million pledge to restore La. oyster beds
In its full page ads, BP touts its commitment to cleaning up its oil disaster and that they are “working to live up to our…
90 Minutes Left To Vote On BP Or Bank Of America For Worst Company In America!
As you read this, Bank of America and BP are locked in deadly combat in the Worst Company In America octagon. The clock runs out…
BP letter to Gulf residents
This is from the text of the full page ads that BP is running in daily newspapers across the South. I hate spin doctors. Their…
Messages in sand
CNNiReport wants to hear from locals living along the Gulf Coast about their feelings on the Deepwater Horizon disaster a year later. The CNN challenge…
UWF Earth Day
Press Release: The University of West Florida commemorates Earth Day and the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with three special events. The…
Viewpoint: BP Making it Right? Yeah, Right.
From Chasidy Hobbs, Emerald Coastkeeper: April 20, 2011 marks one-year since the start of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Most members…
Blow-by-blow: BP stockholders meeting
The Telegraph is live coverage of the stockholders meeting of BP. Finally they are getting their say and the chairman is dealing with it: “Mr…
BP spillionaires
ProPublica’s Kim Barker investigates how some people affected by the BP oil spill soaked up money and became “spillionaires” by charging BP outrageous rates for…
Scott reluctant to go after BP
St. Pete Times: Gov. Rick Scott’s reluctance to make a legal claim against BP irks a cast of Floridians, including Tampa attorney Steve Yerrid, who…
BP admits to losing 13,000 claimants’ info
BP has admitted to losing a laptop that contained the details of thousands of people who had made claims following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill…
Manslaughter charges considered for BP managers
The Guardian is reporting that BP executives, including ex-chief executive Tony Hayward, may be charged by US authorities over the lost of lives caused by…
Feinberg gets a raise
The effort of speeding up the claims process and getting the checks out apparently demands that the head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility get…
Thank you, BP (photos)
One of our freelancers sent in this report: This past Saturday all the cobia boats were reporting to me seeing weathered oil on the surface…
Tar balls still on our beaches
Sunday’s article on BP cutting back on its clean-up work crews on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key upset locals. I was sent these photos of…
Feinberg attorneys tout GCCF transparency
You may read about this tomorrow in the daily newspaper, but the Mobile Press Register has it today. Lawyers for the Gulf Coast Claims Facility…
Valentino: Expect Cairo-like uprising against BP
Commissioner Gene Valentino is upset about how BP is dealing with clean-up of our waterways and beaches. According to the commissioner, BP/Unified Command has reduced…
BP: Feinberg plan too generous
Mobile Press Register is reporting: BP complained in a letter to Ken Feinberg, head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (which is headquartered in Dublin,…
Broxson on GCCF: “No access or accountability”
State Rep. Doug Broxson traveled to Dublin, Ohio to tour the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, supposedly the headquarters for the claims process run by Ken…
