Category: BP Disaster
Houston BP protests
Houston is home to BP’s North American operations and Transocean. Yesterday about 50 protesters marched from Transocean offices to the BP building. The protest was…
Buzz: “…about this time the drill floor disappeared”
For novice Rick’s Blog readers, Buzz items are rumors and other unverified bits of information that come to me. More often than not they turn…
BP protest May 27
Hear Our Voice To Save Our Coast is holding a demonstration Thursday, May 27 at 6 p.m. on Palafox between Main and Government streets (guess…
BP Oil Disaster Update
Escambia Disaster Response – Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Monday, May 24 – 4:30 p.m. – Update #29 * Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key remain open….
Grover has plan for BP ad dollars
Dear CFO Sink: I look forward to talking with you today at 3:00 pm EST. In advance of our phone conversation I would like to…
Aborted BP presentations
This is what the council stopped: PowerPoint: Staging Operations Booming strategies
Tempers flare at City Council
The Pensacola City Council cut off BP Civic Affairs Director Liz Castro three pages into her PowerPoint presentation after the community liaison failed to answer…
Nuclear option not feasible for BP Deepwater Horizon
Over the weekend, I interviewed Dr. Ted Bourgoyne, LSU Professor Emeritus, petroleum engineering about Deepwater Horizon well. He said that he hadn’t seen the so-called…
Buzz: BP asks City Council to clean boom in bayou
The buzz is BP officials will appear before the Pensacola City Council today at its Committee of the Whole to tell city officials the oil…
Every time I see this video, my temper flares
This is BP CEO Tony Hayward with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist telling us, “We are very confident that will be able to contain the spill…
Liz, here is another idea. Please fwd to Tony
More ideas for the public that BP Barbie Liz Castro asked us to send her: Oil Spill Combating – A German Approach The explosion of…
BP cuts back capture stat again, oops
Marketwatch reports that the amount of crude oil BP is siphoning from a massive leak on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico has declined…
Liz, here’s an idea
During the first community meetings, BP Barbie Liz Castro told citizens that her company wanted to hear ideas from the public to help with his…
Alas, Pensacola
“Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy…
BTW: Gannett will start competing with local ad agencies
The venture will be called “Gannett Local” …”focused on working with small and medium sized business to provide them a high-touch marketing consultation and a…
BP cut corners at Deepwater
The Orlando Sentinel reports that have obtained documents that BP chose a less-expensive, less-reliable method for completing the Deepwater Horizon well. …BP’s choice of well…
BP killed my dog, tempers run high
The Miami Herald is at Grand Isles, La. where BP’s black crude is destroying the ecosystem. Workers in knee-high rubber boots and hard hats shoveled…
Miller no longer believes BP is doing a good job
It’s amazing what a week of repeated bad press for BP, and cries from Panhandle voters, can do to change the perspective of our congressman,…
Tar balls on Pensacola Beach
We are getting reports that tar balls have washed on to Pensacola Beach. Fox 10 is reporting three were found by a Gulf Breeze family…
Panhandle prefers Rubio
According to the latest Listener Group poll: Marco Rubio and Republican newcomer and governor candidate Rick Scott are the two leaders in a survey recently…
