From Epoch Times, Sam Camariotes of Sam’s Seafood and Steaks: “The prices have definitely gone up depending on the types of seafood. Shrimp prices have gone up, oysters are off the charts,…
Category: BP Disaster
Tea Party upset over Outtakes
Email from a Pensacola Tea Party protester: Mr. Outzen, I was taken aback by your characterization (in your Vol 11 #20 issue) of tea partiers as displaying âracist-phony angerâ compared to the…
Buzz: Super Tankers won’t work for cleanup
Another email: First there is not any room for a super tanker at the location they have three Dynamic Position (DP) rigs and one 600-foot Drill ship. All the vessels out there…
Engineers believe relief wells should work
Last week, I heard rumors that the relief wells that are being drilled to stop oil spewing from the Deepwater Horizon well might not work. The email discussed a similar accident off…
BP hires uber Barbie
BP has found it has too many men speaking for it nationally and will now use its local BP Barbie approach nationwide. “BP Barbie” is my description for the various female community…
Road Trip notes: Dauphin Island
The Dauphin lsland trip was uneventful, but great background for later. The island is south of Mobile, past Bellingrath Gardens. It is wider than Santa Rosa Island and has grass and trees,…
BP ad: We will make it right
Full page ads are running across the country, except for the IN, that declare “BP has taken full responsibility for cleaning up the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.” The black and…
Next option has risk
The new option that BP has for the Deepwater Horizon well is to cut off a kinked portion of the riser and attempt to lower a device over the area that will…
Buzz: Crist moves TDC meeting
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has moved the meeting with tourism officials from Northwest Florida from today to Sunday. It’s anticipated that he will announce his plan to split the $25M that Tony…
Coastkeeper update
Press release: Flow rate update, with information from the Incident Command: The National Incident Command’s Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) has developed an independent estimate for the rate at which oil is…
City Attorney memo: City Council has some control over BP boom ops
Pensacola City Attorney Rusty Wells has sent the City Council a memo, “Pensacola-Based Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cleanup Measures,” that while the City can’t stop BP from setting up its boom cleaning…
FLRA launches Coast is Clear campaign
While Gov. Crist plays politics and misses the opportunity to help Gulf Coast businesses on this four-day weekend and WEAR/Sinclair offers a too little-too late promo campaign with its sister stations, the…