By The Beast Corps Correspondent Ryne Ziemba… Does BP Save Money By Letting Our Wildlife Die? With the first tar balls washing up on the shores of the Florida Keys and the…
Fighting for Papa Bear
Deepwater horizon tragedy through the eyes of one victim’s family He wasn’t supposed to be on the rig. “It wasn’t “his” rig to begin with,” Becky Manuel, his ex-wife and mother of…
News: BP grilled over dispersants (Sorry, Jeff)
While our Congressman Jeff Miller is fighting EPA to allow BP to spray more dispersants on the BP oil spill. other Congressmen are worried about the damage to the Gulf’s ecosystem. The…
Latest BP Oil Spill stats
From MarketWatch: The volume of oil being collected: 3,000 barrels a day, up from 2,000. 19,000 claims filed, “around 8,000” payments made…. 42 percent, up from less than 8 percent two days…
Fighting for Papa Bear
The Deepwater Horizon explosion and the subsequent oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico have gotten oil executives, attorneys and government officials seeing huge dollar amounts. Lost in the uproar are the…
BP contractor caught using illegals
News Herald reports: “Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested as many as 11 people Wednesday — all but one of them thought to be illegal aliens — in a sweep at Panama City…
BP is now threatening journalists
It was only a matter of time before BP starting restricting the media’s access to areas impacted by the BP Oil Spill. With heavy oil hitting the shores and marshes of Louisiana,…
BP Lie #73
For weeks, the public has been told that the crude from BP’s Deepwater Horizon well is a light crude that it evaporates easily. “It’s nothing like what BP tired to cleanup in…
Marco Rubio coming to Pensacola
Press release: As one of our great supporters, we just wanted to make sure you knew about Marco’s event near you tomorrow, Thursday, May 20th. He will make several stops in the…
Official statement on Water Quality
From Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson: Recently it has come to our attention the public concern with water quality on the Gulf of Mexico. Prior to the end of April and first…
Coastkeeper speaks out
From Chasidy Fisher Hobbs, Coastkeeper Emerald Coastkeeper, Inc. I am YOUR Coastkeeper. When I took on this job I agreed to fight for swimmable, drinkable waters at all costs. I take my…
Latest BP Update, with subtitles, notes
As of May 18 UNDERWATER —-Subtitle “Don’t expect it to be stopped any time soon.†. The riser insertion tube tool (RITT) containment system is estimated to be collecting and carrying about…
Gulf County sues BP
The News Herald (Panama City, Fla.) reports that Gulf County has filed a lawsuit against BP. According to their attorneys, Gulf County “seeks full reimbursement for the cost it incurs for their…
News: BP said it could handle 60 times the current spill
….and Congressman Jeff Miller believed it….just kidding….maybe. The Mobile Press Register reports: “In its 2009 exploration plan for the Deepwater Horizon well, BP PLC states that the company could handle a spill…
My Daily Beast article makes Yahoo home page
Not too bad – http://www.yahoo.com/. It’s the fifth news item. Here’s how they published it: http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20100519/ts_dailybeast/8137_howbpsecretlybuyspr
Brockovich’s Weeklong Trip To Coast
With the Deep Horizon oil spill threatening the Gulf Coast, national environmental activist and legal consultant Erin Brockovich has made a stop in our area to speak with media and those potentially…
News: Pelican covered in oil found at Destin
…and so it begins… Daily News reports a brown pelican covered in a light brown oily substance was found Tuesday afternoon on a Destin dock. “His body’s covered. He’s tired and weak….
What is the truth?
From News Journal article (“Chemicals will protect the Gulf, Rep. Miller says”): “Adm. Thad Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard, said the spill has become much more difficult to contain. As…
The Beast: How BP secretly buys PR
The need to tell the real stories of Pensacola remains. Please follow this link and comment on the article. Comments can be pro or con….they can add more information. We need to…
Grover: We will test waters
Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson called late yesterday afternoon to tell me the county will be testing the area waters regularly on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key. “We have the baseline measurements…
