Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Herschel Vinyard announced yesterday in Panama City that several Florida Panhandle counties are slated for about $90 million worth of early restoration projects to address areas…
Category: BP Disaster
No fraud at BP claim center in Mobile, Ala.
BP charged last month that it had evidence of fraud at the claims office in Mobile, Ala. David Welker, a former FBI supervisor hired by claims administrator Patrick Junea, said in a…
RESTORE meeting theme: environmental and economic sustainability
By Jessica Forbes During Monday’s meeting of the Escambia County RESTORE Act Advisory Committee, the committee heard from three experts in cultural and environmental specialties and continued to discuss the mechanics of…
Australian version of 60 Minutes looks at the health catastrophe caused by BP using dispersants in 2010 (Video)
In the summer of 2010, BP used Corexit oil dispersants to make the catastrophe look less severe, but little was known at the time about the long-term environmental effects of the chemicals…
The Endless List of BP Crimes (VIDEO)
Last weekend, I did an interview for Ring of Fire on the BP spin machine. The corporate-controlled media has let BP off the hook, not just for their crimes in the Gulf…
BP fraud toll-free number hijacked
The fraud hotline that BP has been advertising in the Pensacola News Journal and other daily newspapers along the Gulf Coast has been hijacked by protestors upset the British oil giant for…
BP CEO wants to get back to business as usual. Not so fast, Dudley
BP CEO Robert Dudley laments what he sees as public hatred for oil companies in the United States and claims other nations love the oil industry. He said that he expected to…
Revenge of the BP Barbies
In the weeks after Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010, but before the oil and tar balls began washing ashore, BP sent out into the coastal communities of the Gulf Coast an…
Study Finds Toxic Metal Concentrations in Gulf Whales Are Likely the Highest In the World
The sperm whales of the Gulf of Mexico have higher levels of chromium and nickel in their systems than sperm whales found anywhere else in the world, according to the preliminary analysis…
BP wants to suspend claims, sets up hot line
BP asked a federal judge late Tuesday to order that all payments from its Gulf oil spill civil settlement be suspended until an independent investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh of…
Commissioner Robinson featured by Florida Trend
Florida Trend magazine has interview with Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson, who is also the chairman of the Gulf Consortium which represents 23 Florida gulf coast counties slated to receive millions of…
Interview: Dr. E. Faye Williams, National Chair of the National Congress of Black Women
By Jessica Forbes Dr. E. Faye Williams, National Chair of the National Congress of Black Women, visited Pensacola last weekend as part of her work to raise awareness of the number of…
RESTORE Committee Outlined
During this week’s Escambia County Commission Committee of the Whole, the board will discuss the RESTORE Act advisory committee’s purpose and role. The following is an informational sheet included in the agenda…
Escambia’s RESTORE Rethink
Though it wasn’t on this morning’s agenda, the post-November incarnation of the Escambia County Commission–officially meeting for the first time–began discussing the “revamping” of the yet-to-be-formed RESTORE Act advisory committee. “I have…
Did BP throw its workers under the bus with settlement
Boston Globe columnist Juliette Kayyem thinks so. Concurrent criminal charges were filed against three BP employees, two of them supervisors on the rig. “The company’s plea arrangement leaves the three defendants alone…
Rep. Miller Assessing BP Settlement
Rep. Jeff Miller’s (R-Fla.) chief of staff said this afternoon that the congressman was still assessing the recently announced $4.5 billion settlement with BP over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf…
BP’s Early Restoration Dollars, Round Two
The public will have the opportunity tonight to review and comment on a recently released plan from the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment trustees. The plan outlines the second round of…
Grover and the Governor
Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson will be in Tallahassee tomorrow. He’s looking to meet with Florida Gov. Rick Scott. “My hope is to meet with the governor’s office late afternoon,†the commissioner…
BP Settlement Should Happen in Public Forum, say Environmentalists
By Stephanie Carroll Carson, Florida News Connection TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – It’s a waiting game as BP oil company executives and federal officials meet to discuss the settlement amount the company will have…
BP: ‘Cofferdam’ is ‘Probable Source’
After three days of inspecting the Macondo well, BP has announced that the current oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico is likely due to the ‘cofferdam’—a 86-ton dome used in one…
