Today, in advance of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s public meeting on the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas leasing program today in Tallahassee, Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah…
Tag: Offshore drilling
EPA Grants DeSoto Canyon Drilling Amendment
The Environmental Protection Agency has granted an Australian oil company a revision to its Gulf of Mexico drilling permit that allows for an increased amount of emissions. The decision follows an extended…
Port as Offshore-Drilling Pitstop?
The Global 1200 is the latest gargantuan fixture up at Pensacola’s port. It’s a whopper of a vessel, with steel braids of cranes and infrastructure stretching to the clouds. The ship is…
Fox News and WSJ side with BP
The anti-Obama Conservatives are lining up with BP against the communities damaged by the Deepwater Horizon well. On this weekend’s John Fund of The Wall Street Journal said that $20 billion fund…
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 for the rate at which oil is…
Meek: Too small to fail
Congressman Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, stopped by the IN offices for a few minutes before his meeting with the PNJ editorial board. Meek held an open forum last…
Beast Corps: Notes on Meek’s Forum on Offshore drilling
From Beast Corps correspondent Logan Harrison: Timeline: • Arrived at 7:03 • Talked about being on the road all day, took bathroom break…. • Left Panama City this morning • Took a…
“BP is flying by the seat of its pants”
That’s what Florida CFO Alex Sink says about the claims processing of British Petroleum. Read my exclusive interview with Sink on the The Daily Beast. Favorite quote: “BP clearly doesn’t know what…
Sink’s day in Pensacola
By Sean Boone Federal and state officials were in Pensacola today to address emergency efforts for the Deep Horizon oil spill bearing down on Florida’s coastline. Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink met…
Sen. Nelson is coming
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson will hold a press conference today at 3 p.m. at Plaza de Luna at the end of Palafox. He is holding a series of press conferences along Northwest…
House approves offshore drilling
Everywhere except west coast of Florida – Read Keeping our distance. This South Florida Sun-Sentinel article has a cool multimedia feature.
Is offshore drilling necessary?
The United States currently produces 8 million barrels of oil and other petroleum liquids a day and consumes about 21 million. However, Oil & Gas industry is drilling on just a fraction…
Offshore drilling
The Daily News and the Freedom Newspapers do another excellent job of reporting on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. They ask people in Alabama, Texas and Louisiana what has been their…