Category: BP Disaster

I missed Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer, yesterday. The visit was a surprise that had Santa Rosa Island Authority and Escambia County officials scrambling…

Daily News (FWB): While large amounts of tar balls continued to wash up on Walton County beaches Tuesday, Okaloosa County’s oil forecast for the rest…

At 11:08 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, I received this email from a visitor from Dallas, Tex.: I benefited from your blog reports of Pensacola Beach….

For Immediate Release June 22, 2010 4:30 p.m. CST Latest Oil Spill Developments Dear Neighbor, As dime to five inch-sized tar balls and tar “patties”…

Gulf Oil Spill Doobie Brothers Parody by Steve Goodie:

BP has already killed countless sea turtles in its careless and cruel operations managing the Gulf oil spill, and we must send a strong message…

By Lawrence S. Wittner The offshore oil drilling catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico brought to us by BP has overshadowed its central role over…

While Pensacola Beach is dragging its feet on setting up a big-name concert series to help its businesses, both Gulf Shores and Okaloosa County have…

BP executives visit Pensacola when there is trouble in the media. The damages aren’t as bad as Grand Isle, La. or Orange Beach, Ala. The…

BP Blocking Media Access? Great interview from New Orleans TV station WDSU TV.

Got this advisory last night at 9:46: BP COO Doug Suttles to Visit Area on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Doug Suttles, the Chief Operating Officer,…

“Today is the first official day of summer, but across the Gulf Coast, beaches sit empty. People who depend on tourism dollars are wondering how…

Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key Update Monday, June 21 – 11:00 a.m. – Update #18 If you see tar or oiled debris on the beach….

Daily News (FWB): Worst fear, greatest hope: Hands Across the Sand buoyed by worldwide support —At 11 a.m. on Saturday, at 417 sites in roughly…

The petition drive by Marty Donovan and Jack Nobles doesn’t stop the construction of the multi-use stadium at the Community Maritime Park. The Donovan/Nobles petition…

Maybe a more productive requirement from new and improved Minerals Management Service would be to require all current to begin drilling relief wells. The wells…

The Daily Beast also reports: Once left for dead in his Senate campaign against Marco Rubio, Florida governor Charlie Crist has used the BP spill…

The Daily Beast’s Rebecca Dana reports today: The world may have turned against the oil giant, but in one city near the Gulf spill cleanup,…

We have the actual documents from the Department of Interior on the six-month moratorium: The Six-Month Deepwater Moratorium as set forth in this Notice to…

The anti-Obama Conservatives are lining up with BP against the communities damaged by the Deepwater Horizon well. On this weekend’s John Fund of The Wall…