Deepwater Horizon Incident Update #21 (Highlighted sections indicate new information) Situation Update Navarre Beach and Santa Rosa’s entire coastline is open.  Two links to live Web cams on Navarre Beach are available at www.santarosa.fl.gov/oilspill. Winds and currents…
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On Radio or Not with Nicole Sandler
I will be a guest on Nicole Sandler’s online radio show, RadioOrNot.com . Nicole Sandler was previously morning host at WINZ/Miami when it was progressive talk, then moved to Air America where…
BP memo shakes nuts out of the tree
From an “adoring fan” – Josh Derrick: I am very disappointed that you and the Daily Beast would result to using such an obvious fake document against BP in your article. Anyone…
BP Ignores EPA Deadline On Dispersants
The Environmental Protection Agency wants answers as to why BP refuses to switch to less toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf oil spill. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0525/EPA-girds-for-a-fight-with-BP-over-dispersants-in-Gulf-oil-spill
BP and The Three Little Pigs
My latest article for The Daily Beast is on a document I obtained that shows BP, in a previous fatal disaster, increased worker risk to save money. Are there parallels with the…
Councilman Hall comments on handling of BP
Pensacola City Councilman Sam Hall sent this email that he had sent to a constituent about yesterday’s Committee of the Whole presentation by BP spokesman Liz Castro that was cut short by…
Papa Bear story catches attention
Our May 20 cover story, “Fighting for Papa Bear,” has quietly gotten the attention of people around the country. It was considered too soft for The Daily Beast, but I was determined…
Don’t feel sorry for Liz Castro
The BP Barbie who claimed that she is the nationwide director of civic affairs for the oil giant that made $5.6 billion in the first quarter of this year. She is a…
Photos you have to see
The Boston Globe has put together this collection of photos concerning the BP crude oil hitting the shores of Louisiana. Check them out and understand more why I can’t sleep: Oil reaches…
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 organized by women’s activist group Codepink. They…
DeLuna Clue 2010 # 1
From Fiesta of Five Flags: Can You Guess The Identity of Fiesta’s King and Queen? From June 3-13, Pensacola will celebrate the 61st Fiesta of Five Flags celebration – the oldest and…
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 out to be true, but I post…
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 that’s Ferdinand Plaza area) protesting BP’s tactics…
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. Water is clear and air quality is…
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 talk with you about the advertising dollars…
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 simple question about the boom decontamination operation…
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 nuclear option ever used underwater. If BP…
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 giant’s plans to use Pensacola Shipyard in…
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 in the vicinity of the leak and…