News: Pelican covered in oil found at Destin

…and so it begins… Daily News reports a brown pelican covered in a light brown oily substance was found Tuesday afternoon on a Destin dock….

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What is the truth?

From News Journal article (“Chemicals will protect the Gulf, Rep. Miller says”): “Adm. Thad Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard, said the spill has…

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The Beast: How BP secretly buys PR

The need to tell the real stories of Pensacola remains. Please follow this link and comment on the article. Comments can be pro or con….they…

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Grover: We will test waters

Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson called late yesterday afternoon to tell me the county will be testing the area waters regularly on Pensacola Beach and…

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Aerial view of BP oil spill

BP CEO Tony Hayward tells us all is well. They tell us that they have it contained, BP wants us to return back to normal….

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The Beast Corps: Watch out for the Valdez crud

By The Beast Corps correspondent Jen Bullock.. Merle Savage moved to Anchorage, Alaska in 1988. Three months later, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez crashed onto…

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BP slow-walking claims

The Marketwatch report also stated that BP says that 15,600 claims have been filed to date and 2,700 have already been paid….less than 18 percent….

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Okaloosa action plan finally approved

Four weeks since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Okaloosa County officials got their local action plan approved….maybe…BP at the Joint Command Center in Mobile still has…

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BP enlists more collaborators

For 14 years, I worked in the oil industry, primarily with Texaco and Citgo, and developed some solid sources within the industry with whom I…

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Oops, Jeff Miller off by 23,000 bbls per day

Last week, Congressman Jeff Miller told us that BP was getting ahead of the oil spill and had recovered 4 million gallons. His actual quote…

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New Vichy government forming in Tallahassee

When the Germans conquered France during the WWII, Marshal Philippe Pétain and his Vichy government collaborated with the Germans.The French police and the state militia…

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More notes from Eunice

While visiting Eunice I spoke with offshore workers and their families. It was an intense seven hours of conversations done after a six-hour drive. Eunice…

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