Tea Party upset over Outtakes
Email from a Pensacola Tea Party protester: Mr. Outzen, I was taken aback by your characterization (in your Vol 11 #20 issue) of tea partiers…
Buzz: Super Tankers won’t work for cleanup
Another email: First there is not any room for a super tanker at the location they have three Dynamic Position (DP) rigs and one 600-foot…
Engineers believe relief wells should work
Last week, I heard rumors that the relief wells that are being drilled to stop oil spewing from the Deepwater Horizon well might not work….
BP hires uber Barbie
BP has found it has too many men speaking for it nationally and will now use its local BP Barbie approach nationwide. “BP Barbie” is…
Road Trip notes: Dauphin Island
The Dauphin lsland trip was uneventful, but great background for later. The island is south of Mobile, past Bellingrath Gardens. It is wider than Santa…
BP ad: We will make it right
Full page ads are running across the country, except for the IN, that declare “BP has taken full responsibility for cleaning up the spill in…
Next option has risk
The new option that BP has for the Deepwater Horizon well is to cut off a kinked portion of the riser and attempt to lower…
BP abandons top kill
As I predicted, BP is telling media that top kill is not working. Option 3b is to saw off riser and reconnect hose. Only the…
Prisoners used by BP at Dauphin Island
Visiting Dauphin Island,Ala. today. No tarballs, shore lined with hay. BP has a staging area under heavy security. Controversy over BP contractor using work release…
News: BP buses in workers for Obama visit
WDSU in New Orleans is reporting: Officials from Jefferson Parish claim BP bused 400 cleanup workers into Grand Isle on Friday in time for a…
Nodine sits in jail
…and, according to the Mobile Press Register, the Feds want to keep him there. The former Mobile County Commissioner resigned this past week to avoid…
Buzz: Crist moves TDC meeting
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has moved the meeting with tourism officials from Northwest Florida from today to Sunday. It’s anticipated that he will announce his…
Buzz: Top kill is failing
My engineering sources are saying the top kill option isn’t working. They can’t overcome the pressure from the oil. We will have to endure this…
Coastkeeper update
Press release: Flow rate update, with information from the Incident Command: The National Incident Command’s Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) has developed an independent estimate…
City Attorney memo: City Council has some control over BP boom ops
Pensacola City Attorney Rusty Wells has sent the City Council a memo, “Pensacola-Based Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cleanup Measures,” that while the City can’t stop…
FLRA launches Coast is Clear campaign
While Gov. Crist plays politics and misses the opportunity to help Gulf Coast businesses on this four-day weekend and WEAR/Sinclair offers a too little-too late…
WEAR TV will promote clean beaches next week
Press release from WEAR TV: WEAR ABC 3 TO SPREAD THE WORD THAT OUR BEACHES ARE CLEAN AND CLEAR Pensacola, FL –WEAR ABC 3 is…
Buzz: Crist drops match requirement
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist may be rethinking his plans for spending the $25 million that BP gave the state for tourism advertising. A memorandum of…
Emotions run high, Anybody seen Miller?
Rep. Charlie Melancon gets emotional while talking about the impact of the Gulf oil spill on his state.
Thomas barely holds on to Paul FCAT gains
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas dismisses the one point drop in FCAT reading scores for third graders in the Friday edition of the BP marketing solution, Pensacola…
