Category: BP Disaster

Escambia County has seen the State of Florida take all the $25 million BP block grant for clean-up and recovery. The County has been told…

Oil is getting through Pensacola Pass and into Santa Rosa Sound. Photos courtesy of Kim Carmichael:

Two plumes south of Pensacola Pass – a large plume of weathered oil nine miles out, it’s two miles wide and 40 miles long; non-weather…

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More from Pensacola Pass: A small clean up boat has arrived now. Keep in mind there is quite a bit of oil and there are…

Here is the latest message from the National Tea Party. Instead of talking about British Petroleum, Cheney’s hand in the deregulation of offshore drilling and…

My readers are the best sources for what is happening: I’m in the sound on the boat right now directly across from the ranger station….

Mayor Mike Wiggins reported that Bayou Texar now has triple booming. City staff is booming the grass areas near the trestle and Wayside Park. The…

Two barges recovering oil collided last night in Perdido Key, sparking a small fire. The incident has been contained according to Unified Command.

Comm. Grover Robinson: We need better communication. We need more boats to fight this battle. I don’t want to hear about EPA regulations, Jones Act…

Twenty vessels fighting it. Commissioner Grover Robinson flew over the area in an ECSO helicopter. Pensacola Beach appeared clear. There were orange patches in Pensacola…

Panama City News Herald reports: “Bay County’s first tangible landfall from the Deepwater Horizon crisis is not tar balls or oil plumes. Instead, it’s a…