Category: BP Disaster
Vessels of Opportunity can now file for damages
The Times-Picayune reports captains who participated in BP’s Vessels of Opportunity program can now pursue claims for damage to their boats and possibly other grievances,…
AG Bondi on audit of GCCF
Press Release: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi Provides Recommendations on the Gulf Coast Claims Facility Audit TALLAHASSEE, Fla.–Advocating on behalf of Floridians who have suffered…
Letter to Feinberg
From Art Rocker, state head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: As of October 6, 2011, o/a 10:20am, I have had an opportunity to meet…
Fun and Play with the EPA, or Spill Report Delayed
by Jeremy Morrison— The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force was suppose to emerge Wednesday with a road map toward a brighter day. Instead, we’ll…
Environmental group challenges BP whitewash
According to Waterkeeper Alliance, the Gulf communities continue to see impacts of the BP oil spill on a daily basis. Oil continues to wash ashore…
Miss. fishermen still have problems
Capt. Mark Stewart from Gulfport, Miss. called during lunch to tell that the shrimp have disappeared from Morgan City, La. to the Mississippi-Alabama border. “We’re…
Feds want Transocean to check BP well
Mobile Press Register reports the U.S. Coast Guard is ordering Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded April 20, 2010 killing 11…
Mysterious Deaths of 9 B.P. Oil Spill Whistleblowers (video)
In the past year, nine vocal critics or potential whistleblowers of the Gulf oil spill all died in extremely mysterious ways. Their deaths could be…
Gulf Coast Restoration says report points out BP grossly negligent
Press Release: The joint investigation identified numerous, significant decisions by BP that directly led to the BP drilling disaster, the impacts of which are still…
Independent auditor of BP claims coming
Attorney General Eric Holder asked Ken Feinberg, head of Gulf Coast Claims Facility, to hire an independent auditor to review the claims process. Feinberg agreed,…
BP responds to Haliburton lawsuit
From the BP spin machine: BP is aware of the claims filed against the company on 1 September 2011 by Halliburton. The company is now…
Haliburton claims BP committed fraud
Halliburton has filed suit against BP for “negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation” over its actions leading up to, and after, the nation’s worst oil…
Just in time for the oil sheen, BP has a new ad
Press Release: BP has launched a new series of ads designed to promote tourism along the Gulf Coast. The ads feature spokespersons from Louisiana, Mississippi,…
Gulf seabed: ‘Slimy, Soupy Mess” (video)
CNN International interviewed Dr. Samantha (Mandy) Joye who is part of a group of scientists from Georgia and Florida that are studying the sea-floor in…
Sen. Nelson gets comments on Restore Act 2011
Press Release: Today, the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) coordinated a meeting of elected officials and staff from eight of Florida’s Panhandle counties to meet…
Gulf Cleanup Chaos
from Florida News Connection: “Gulf Cleanup Chaos”: Report Details Dangers of Dispersants –By Les Coleman The dispersants used in cleaning up the Gulf Deepwater Horizon…
BP subject to punitive damages
The Jurist website reports that Federal Judge Carl Barbier has ruled that all state law claims in the BP oil spill case are preempted by…
BP minces its words on leak
BP may very well have told the truth about the oil found in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion…
BP denies oil from Deepwater well
Press Release: On Aug. 25, 2011, BP confirmed through a standard visual wellhead inspection that there is no release of oil from the Macondo well…
Leaking oil is from Deepwater Horizon
Mobile Press Register reports scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match…
