Category: BP Disaster

My latest article for The Daily Beast is on Feinberg’s visit to Orange Beach and the claims process: Nearly 1,000 small-business owners from Alabama and…

Why did the head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Ken Feinberg, go to Orange Beach, instead of Pensacola? Because Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon…

Press Release: Based on a rigorous review by a team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists of previously released preliminary data, the Service has…

According to the AP, former BP head Tony Hayward is expected to testify in front of BP lawmakers regarding the Deep Horizon oil spill Article

According to Mobile Press Register, Mobile, Ala. is getting $1.35 million for tourism from the funds BP gave the state of Alabama. Here is how…

Press Release: All of the hard (containment) boom deployed as part of the federal-led response but now potentially posing more risk than it offers protection…

The phones have been ringing off the hook about local businesses still unable to get their claims paid. The new Feinberg process is being overwhelmed…

The SMG Group with the Pensacola Civic Center had been in talks of bringing in country artist Dwight Yoakum as part of a TDC funded…

The other bit of news that I’m hearing through the grapevine is that BP will be expanding its operations at Bayou Chico and moving more…

Mobile Press Register reports that material was collected by a group of scientists  off of Horn Island, Miss. has tested positive for several of the…

The Mobile Press Register is reporting that Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and the rest of South Baldwin Co. beaches lost in June $35.5 million in…

Press Release: As part of its long term monitoring and research program in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is deploying a new technology that will enable…