Category: BP Disaster
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…
What surprised Ken Feinberg?
This morning I called Ken Feinberg, head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. We had not been able to meet on Monday when he was…
DOJ: Feinberg group should be spending fund faster
CNN reports that the Justice Department Friday urged changes to speed up the process and to pay more claims from BP’s $20 billion fund. Associate…
Judge: Feinberg is not independent
Bloomberg reports: U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans concluded yesterday that Kenneth Feinberg, head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility can’t identify himself…
Locals travel to Orange Beach and Destin for Feinberg
Ken Feinberg’s bypassed Pensacola on his recent barnstorming tour of the Gulf Coast. Locals had to travel to Destin and Orange Beach to be heard….
Don’t feel sorry for BP
In the last few days, BP has won the exploration rights to Siberia and has been given oil exploration permits off the Australian coast. Rosnef,…
Unbelievable report from BP subcontractor
County staff reported today that the BP clean-up contractor is reporting that 99 percent of the workers on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key are residents…
County Commission to address BP clean-up workers
Spoke with Commissioner Grover Robinson last yesterday afternoon. He said he has also heard from other locals laid off by the clean-up subcontractor Southern Cat…
BP clean-up scandal
The subcontractors that are handling the clean-up on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key are laying off Escambia County workers and replacing them with out-of-town workers…
Walton County TDC will file BP claim
WMBB TV reports following in the footsteps of Bay County’s Tourist Development Council, the Walton TDC is filing a claim against BP. Walton County has…
