BP responds to Coast Guard for more capacity
A letter dated June 13 from Doug Suttles to the USCG on the additional options for creating more capacity to capture oil and increase redundancy:…
Suttles outlines plan
On the Deepwater Horizon Response website, BP reveals its new plan for capturing more oil in letter from BP COO Doug Suttles. Temporary Riser System…
How Much Can BP Fork Out?
Investors are increasingly worried that BP will fold under the federal government’s request for an escrow account to pay for oil damages. New York Times…
The Fluoride Debate
Escambia County United Against Fluoridation (ECUAF) is hosting Dr. Paul Connett at the Silver Screen Theatre on Tuesday at 7 p.m. for a discussion on…
Oil hits Sound side of Pensacola Beach
Oil has reached the neighborhoods on the beach SOUND side including the grass beds in and around Lafitte Cove (Peg Legs). Heavy oil is in…
Road closures
The following roads will be closed from 5 to 9 p.m. today within the city limits of Pensacola for the Presidential visit: Garden Street to…
Buzz: Are there more leaks at well site?
We heard a rumor last week that there was a rupture on the casing that prevented “top kill” from working. The rupture is somewhere below…
DEP Update
Landfall Reports and Predictions: Reconnaissance missions are ongoing. On June 14, as of noon, light sheen, streamers of weathered oil and tar balls were detected…
Wiggins skewered on Daily Show forum
Pensacola Mike Wiggins is getting compared to Jaws’ Mayor Vaughan by a blogger on the Daily Show forum. Read more.
Innovation Improves Tar Ball Removal
From Unified Command: The crew of one of the thousands of Vessels of Opportunity (VOO) working in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill recently…
Tallahassee Thievery
Escambia County has seen the State of Florida take all the $25 million BP block grant for clean-up and recovery. The County has been told…
Photos from Santa Rosa Sound
Oil is getting through Pensacola Pass and into Santa Rosa Sound. Photos courtesy of Kim Carmichael:
EOC: Update June 13 4:30 pm
Two plumes south of Pensacola Pass – a large plume of weathered oil nine miles out, it’s two miles wide and 40 miles long; non-weather…
Update on Pensacola Pass (photo)
More from Pensacola Pass: A small clean up boat has arrived now. Keep in mind there is quite a bit of oil and there are…
Tea Party doesn’t get it
Here is the latest message from the National Tea Party. Instead of talking about British Petroleum, Cheney’s hand in the deregulation of offshore drilling and…
Text messages from readers
My readers are the best sources for what is happening: I’m in the sound on the boat right now directly across from the ranger station….
EOC: Wiggins report
Mayor Mike Wiggins reported that Bayou Texar now has triple booming. City staff is booming the grass areas near the trestle and Wayside Park. The…
EOC: Unified Command
Two barges recovering oil collided last night in Perdido Key, sparking a small fire. The incident has been contained according to Unified Command.
EOC: BP report
Lucia Bustamante, BP spokesman, said the much-anticipated beach rakes (which will scoop up the BP globs) are at the Bayou Chico staging area. The new…
