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…
Doing nothing is better than dispersants
According to Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center, “the Department of Defense’s Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) aircraft flew multiple missions—dispensing the same dispersant chemicals being used by BP and federal responders….
Rick’s Rant: BP, I am your huckleberry.
The story behind the BP community outreach centers and HAZMAT training:
Erin Brockovich is coming to Pensacola
Press Release: Levin, Papantonio has invited the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. (www.weitzlux.com) to join noted environmental advocates Erin Brockovich and Carol Moore to help those affected by the epic…
Outtakes: The Real Pensacola Tea Party
Can history repeat itself? Will Americans again rise to overthrow an oppressor that has threatened their freedom and quality of life like they did at the Boston Tea Party. Despite what Glenn…
Nodine admitted into hospital
Mobile Press Register reports “Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine, who police have described as a “person of interest” in the Sunday night shooting death of a Gulf Shores woman, has been admitted…
What to Expect from BP
Past Experiences With BP May Point To Future Issues While Northwest Florida prepared for the over five million gallons of BP crude oil set to contaminate its beaches and waterways, the IN…
DEP questions Okaloosa plan, too
There is a pattern here. BP gets kudos in the media around the world for its community outreach efforts in the Florida Panhandle. County officials are told the BP will pay for…
Grover and Goodin met with BP in D.C.
I spoke with Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson this morning about his and Santa Rosa Commissioner Gordon Goodin’s meetings with the Coast Guard and British Petroleum. Congressman Jeff Miller set up the…
The Beast Corps – Join the fight
The story of the BP Oil Spill is huge–with local, state, regional, national and international implications. I have dedicated my time, talents and newspaper to telling the truth behind this environmental, health…
IN Cover: What To Expect From BP
While Northwest Florida prepared for the over five million gallons of BP crude oil set to contaminate its beaches and waterways, the IN took a break from the endless series of press…
The Black Gold Untold
by IN South Alabama correspondent Dawn Butler.. About the size of Pensacola Beach is Dauphin Island, Alabama, where the oil first came ashore in our neck of the woods. Tar balls, the…
