Category: BP Disaster

BP Press release: Subsea Source Control and Containment On July 23, with the guidance and approval of the National Incident Commander (NIC) and the leadership…

Current Situation The State Emergency Operations Center is activated at Level 1 or full activation. The State continues to focus on mitigating impacts to Florida’s…

Press Release From Deepwater Response: NOAA will re-open 26,388 square miles of Gulf waters to commercial and recreational fishing on Thursday. The reopening of a third of…

Local Daniel Pearson has organized a “zombie” walk on Aug. 6 for downtown in an effort to raise money for the city and oil recovery…

My contacts in D.C. called to give me a heads up that VP Joe Biden will be making a big announcement today during his visit…

On Monday,  Women of the Storm organization kicked off its Restore The Gulf petition to demand a proper cleanup and restoration response from the government…

Yesterday the Washington Post reported that BP photoshopped its Disaster Relief Response poster. “I guess if you’re doing fake crisis response, you might as well…

Update From the Small Business Association of Florida: As of the close of business on July 19, 2010 for the State of Florida, the SBA has issued 615 applications…

Researchers are finding many small “dead zones” in the western Gulf of Mexico, but so far there is little to no evidence they are related…

Last week, I wrote about the RICO suits being filed against BP (Is BP a Racketeer?). AP has picked up the story, too: BP: RICO…

Action Memo prepared for Hernando County, FL in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It contains a situation analysis and recommended actions for…

It looks like the oil company is banking on Egypt to bring its shares to life Wall Street Journal Article