The Buzz is BP has several oil recovery and clean-up contractors moving into the area to prepare for the crude hitting our shores and waterways. The companies are gobbling up office and…
Guess who is speaking to NAIOP in May?
Our favorite BP coed, Liz Castro – BP Civic Affairs Director. Ms. Castro will speak at May 19, 2010 meeting of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, a trade associationfor…
Deepwater Horizon – Not the First Gulf Oil Leak
By IN Reporter Ryne Ziemba… Currently, there are roughly 4,000 oil rigs off the Gulf Coast of the United States, with the exception of Florida’s coast which has yet to allow drilling…
Oceanographer Estimates Higher Rate of Leak
By IN reporter Ryne Ziemba.. Prof. Ian McDonald, professor of Oceanography at Florida State University, spoke last Saturday, May 8 at a public forum at the Hilton Garden Inn on Pensacola Beach….
Latest on BP Oil Spill
The oil spill is now 129 miles from the city of Pensacola. Based on the latest projection from NOAA, Escambia County is not anticipating any direct oil impact in the next 48…
Sheriff’s Office rounds up Brownsville gangs
ECSO Release: Investigation Into Brownsville Gang Nets Ten Arrests: An almost four month investigation by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Gang Unit and Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE)…
Transparency Challenge for District 2
The race in the Republican primary for Escambia County District 2 is a dogfight. The top candidates – incumbent Gene Valentino, former County Administrator George Touart, State Rep. Dave Murzin and newcomer…
Oil Academic Task Force
Press Release: Chancellor Frank T. Brogan and chair of the Oil Spill Academic Task Force to visit University of West Florida TALLAHASSEE – Chancellor Frank T. Brogan and Dr. W. Ross Ellington…
BP contacts can’t answer many questions, no surprise
State Senator Don Gaetz emailed last week to the media and his constituents the list of BP Contacts in Florida. I had reporter Ryne Ziemba contact them to find who they were,…
BP exec admits that they don’t know how much is leaking
I will work on my notes on the press conference a little later, but I did learn that BP doesn’t know how much is leaking from the well every day. The BP…
Live BP press conference
From Houston, Texas: BP CEO Tony Hayward says that BP has done a “good job of containment.” What is being done for containment: An air force of planes deploying dispersants. One million…
Nodine questioned in woman’s death
Mobile County Commissioner Steve Nodine is being questioned about the death of Angela Down. Fox 10 News reports: It happened just before Sunday night in Gulf Shores. “We received a call about…
BP bosses sued over alleged bribery
In efforts to better understand the company that is responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I spent hours reading articles in the British press on BP. Came across…
Transocean had $270M payout
While Gulf Coast counties and municipalities struggle with finding funds to pay for their preparations for the BP oil spill, Transocean Ltd, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by British…
Transcript of Olbermann interview
I really thought I sounded more literate and knowledgeable than this: OLBERMANN: That we know about the B.P. waiver agreement offering up to $5,000 to Gulf Coast residents in exchange for their…
Original draft of C.C. Elebash viewpoint
We received the original draft of C.C. Elebash’s viewpoint that ran in Friday’s daily newspaper. “I hate the maritime park. I hate the baseball park. I hate the maritime park. I hate…
State has BP $25 million; none reaching local level
I confirmed yesterday with the office of Florida CFO Alex Sink that the state has received the $25-million block grant from British Petroleum. However, local officials are getting frustrated with the state…
BP ad runs in Sunday Pensacola News Journal
Pensacola’s daily newspaper fulfilled the Gannett mission of being a marketing solution…this time for British Petroleum. The ad, titled “The Gulf Oil Spill Response,” tells readers that -“BP has done and continues…
Don’t touch oil, tarballs
The St. Pete Times warns of the BP oil spill’s toxicity. This s$%# can kill you. I have interviewed workers that were part of the Exxon Valdez cleanup. Twenty years later, they…
Tarballs hit Dauphin Island
Mobile Press Register is reporting that tarballs suspected to be part of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak have been sighted along the shore at Dauphin Island. This sighting was at Saturday noon…
