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…
Category: BP Disaster
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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….