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…
Liz, here is another idea. Please fwd to Tony
More ideas for the public that BP Barbie Liz Castro asked us to send her: Oil Spill Combating – A German Approach The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform and the resulting…
BP cuts back capture stat again, oops
Marketwatch reports that the amount of crude oil BP is siphoning from a massive leak on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico has declined to 1,360 barrels a day, a company…
Liz, here’s an idea
During the first community meetings, BP Barbie Liz Castro told citizens that her company wanted to hear ideas from the public to help with his tragedy. To date, I don’t know of…
Alas, Pensacola
“Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come.” Relevation 18:10, King James Bible….
BTW: Gannett will start competing with local ad agencies
The venture will be called “Gannett Local” …”focused on working with small and medium sized business to provide them a high-touch marketing consultation and a suite of multiplatform solutions (search engine marketing,…
