Congressman Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, stopped by the IN offices for a few minutes before his meeting with the PNJ editorial board. Meek held an open forum last…
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Beast Corps: Notes on Meek’s Forum on Offshore drilling
From Beast Corps correspondent Logan Harrison: Timeline: • Arrived at 7:03 • Talked about being on the road all day, took bathroom break…. • Left Panama City this morning • Took a…
Help offer from Germany
This email appears to be legitimate – here is the company’s website, schaco.com: The German environment dpt has already informed British Petrol to get in contact with us, but all information moved…
Perdido Key Chamber hosts weekly BP meetings
Press release (note the new chamber slogan at the end): As we continue to say, our beaches are beautiful, our water is clear and we are open for business! However, we are…
Damn scientists mess up Miller’s BP world
The New York Times has a disturbing article on the size of the oil spill underwater, where Congressman Miller and BP don’t want us to look. Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes,…
What Miller should be saying
Fox News’ Shepard Smith closed Friday evening’s “FOX Report” with a sharp commentary directed at BP CEO Tony Hayward. Smith, Ole Miss grad who grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast said,…
Miller wants EPA to speed up dispersant approval
“Our” Congressman Jeff Miller isn’t pushing for stricter safety regulations for BP. No, Miller is upset with EPA. In his newsletter, Miller writes “the EPA must speed up its approval of applying…
Impressions of Eunice, La
Ryan Hatler gave me an introduction into the heart of Acadia. Oil is king here. Average wage $90k which beats Escambia Co. $8/hr. People were open and straight- forward. Oil dominates life….
In south Louisiana
I am in Lafayette Parish to interview oil workers. Got on the road at 3 am. Rainstorm has hit area. Now stuck in traffic jam on I-10. First interview will be over…
Beast Corps: British Petroleum’s Greenwashing is A Slick Joke
By Jamie Welch, Beast Corps correspondent… Can the B.S. propaganda machine kindly stop already? Created by the Ogilvy and Mather advertising agency more than a decade ago, the “Beyond Petroleum†public relations…
Beast Corps: Latest on oil
From our Mobile Beast Corps correspondent, Dawn Butler: Admiral Thad Allan is in charge of the US Coast Guard response, so he was at Dauphin Island, Alabama Friday. He said the response…
This is sacrilege, I know, but…. (Update)
Is the area’s new marketing effort – claiming seafood, beaches, water, etc are all fine–risky? Are we sure the seafood is okay? What tests have been done? If a person gets sick…
Updated Florida BP claim numbers
BP has had 768 claims in Florida and approximately $194,000 of those claims have been paid. o Wage loss: 261 claims/$40,000 o Loss of income: • Commercial: 102 claims/$26,249.99 • Business Interruption:…
Claim numbers don’t add up
We asked Santa Rosa County PIO Joy Tsubooka about claims that have been paid. “It is my understanding that in Florida as of yesterday morning- I don’t have any local numbers- BP…
Legal maneuvers could hurt Florida
Yesterday, Transocean got U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison (Southern District of Texas) to suspend any cases against the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig because the company filed a request to limit…
Do you know anyone has gotten a BP check?
Liz “I’m not a technical person” Castro told State Sen. Dave Aronberg that BP has not rejected any claim for $5,000. Has anyone here received a check from BP yet? Email me…
New Video: We’d love to see
….just ignore the men in the HAZMAT suits.
Move EOC to Beach, Key or Downtown
BTW: I am boycotting the EOC – a facility set up miles away from our beaches, a facility that was built to be a bomb shelter to withstand hurricanes, a facility with…
Aronberg challenges BP Barbie
State Senator Dave Aronberg, a Democratic candidate for Attorney General, was in town yesterday. He spent part of his day at the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center. Aronberg got to meet with…
Lives lost at Deepwater Horizon
In all the media coverage and the BP spin, we can so easily lose sight that 11 people died in the April 20 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig: Jason Anderson, Aaron…