The St. Pete Times covered a meeting at the University of Central Florida on how scientists across the Gulf region are trying to determine the impact of the BP disaster on the…
Category: BP Disaster
BP loves tourism stories
BP wants to show how the its oil disaster hasn’t hurt the Gulf Coast. Note there are no negative articles.0 Press Release: As part of our ongoing commitment to the residents of…
Don’t cry for BP
Moex Offshore, one of BP’s partners in the oil well (part of Japan’s Mitsui) that leaked into the Gulf of Mexico last year, has agreed to pay $1.1 billion as part of a…
BP told to break up
The Guardian reports that BP chief executive Bob Dudley has been warned that he must break up his huge oil business into three separate parts to increase its stock market value or…
Haliburton Engineer refuses to testify
Bloomberg is reporting that Jesse Gagliano, a technical adviser who was Halliburton’s cementing engineer on the Deepwater Horizon rig, evoked the Fifth Amendment when he was deposed last week by Transocean. Gagliano…
Escambia Co. governments lead state in BP claims paid
As of May 12, the local governments and agencies in Escambia County have been paid more in BP claims than any other county in Florida: Bay $Â Â Â Â Â 7,630,018.94 Brevard $Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 4,266.66…
Conflicting reports on Gulf fish
Mobile Press Register reports” Despite the reports of diseased fish that are circulating among some commercial anglers and within scientific circles, Alabama researchers fishing within 15 miles of Dauphin Island Thursday caught…
BP has private meeting with city and county officials
According to Escambia County Attorney Alison Rogers, the meeting was to be private so that BP and officials could confidentially talk about outstanding claims regarding the BP oil spill. “The understanding was…
BP asks judge to dismiss investors’ claims
Bloomberg: BP asked a judge to throw out investor claims that management downplayed safety risks before and after its Macondo oil well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico last year, causing…
Dead, missing or jailed BP whistleblowers
There is a new conspiracy making the rounds on the web. It lists the unusual number of scientists, whistleblowers and others affiliated with the BP disaster. December 31, 2010 – John P….
Oh, no, conflicting reports on red snapper
The Mobile Press register reports that scientists have conflicting reports on their samples of red snapper caught in the Gulf. Researchers from the University of South Alabama and the Dauphin Island Sea…
Notes on UWF forum on the anniversary of the BP disaster
Last night I sat on a panel regarding the BP disaster: what happened, what did we learn and where are we now. The panel included Dr. Dick Snyder, director of the UWF…