Saturday afternoon, I drove to Gulf Shores to survey the damage caused by the BP oil. The tar balls have been driven much higher on the beaches at Perdido Key. The BP…
Category: BP Disaster
BP’s love for numbers
I reviewed my posts on the BP oil disaster. BP has had a love for statistics from the very beginning. Sadly many of them are meaningless. My first encounter with BP was…
News: BP builds unnecessary facility
Mobile Press Register: BP has built a vast boat cleaning facility at Boggy Point in Orange Beach, Ala. But in bringing in a company from Alaska to staff it, the oil company…
Why has BP not brought us skimmers?
Biloxi Sun-Herald: From Washington to the Gulf, politicians and residents wonder why so few skimming vessels have been put to work soaking up oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Fred D. McCallister,…
and dumped over degraded oil on LA beaches
From SaveOurShoresFlorida: The sand covering most of the beach was of a much different consistency from the beach closer to the water (very gritty and filled with broken shells). There were lots…
Senate Committee on BP Disaster to meet here
Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, announced today that the Senate’s Select Committee on the Economy will meet on July 12 here to examine the impact of the oil spill on the…
Latest Health Advisory: July 2
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 2, 2010 PR005 Health Officials Post Oil Impact Notice for all Escambia County Gulf beach waters PENSACOLA — Due to the presence of oil products related to the…
Beach update: July 2
Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key Update Friday, July 2 – 10:45 a.m. – Update #29 * Weather – Temperatures are expected to be near 92 degrees with winds from the east northeast….
News: Whale in the Gulf
From Huffington Post: In this video from CNN, hop on board the world’s largest oil skimmer, “A Whale”, to get a firsthand look at the massive ship that is awaiting approval from…
Thank BP for fireworks
As we reported yesterday, BP is paying for the Sertoma fireworks on the Fourth of July. I am probably the only one who sees the irony in a British company paying for…
Is it time to close EOC?
For 10 weeks, the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center has been operating. It is on W Street miles away from the impacted areas. This is an operation that was made for dealing…
News: BP oil penetrating inland waterways
Mobile Press Register: Following an afternoon reconnaissance flight, Gulf Shores and Orange Beach employees reported that oil of some sort — be it sheen, tarballs or orange globs — had impacted all…