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Kevin Costner Oil Cleaning Machine Heads to Clean Up BP Oil Spill
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 9, 2010
PORT FOURCHON, La. – BP COO Doug Suttles and actor Kevin Costner, co-founder of Ocean Therapy, announced that the Ella G. vessel set sail on Thursday July 8, 2010, carrying Ocean Therapy’s centrifuge system to separate oil and water.
Tar Balls From Gulf Oil Spill Wash Onto Texas Beach
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 6, 2010
TEXAS CITY, Texas – A small number of tar balls washed onto a Texas beach, which means the spill has now affected every single Gulf state. Officials say there’s no way to tell if the tar balls came off a ship or arrived some other way. The Associated Press reports that a “bucket’s worth of… read more
Jimmy Buffet Tells Anderson Cooper He’s Angry About Oil Soaked Gulf States
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News on July 2, 2010
GULF COAST – Famous “Margaritaville” musician and Gulf coast resident and business owner Jimmy Buffett talks to Anderson Cooper about his reaction to the BP oil spill. “You’re not human if anger isn’t your first emotion,” Buffett tells Cooper while walking along a Gulf beach where he spent many of his younger days. Jimmy expresses… read more
Hurricane Alex Could Halt Oil Spill Cleanup
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on June 30, 2010
BROWNSVILLE, TX – Hurricane Alex, the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2010 season, was bearing down on Mexico and the southern Texas coastline, far from the spill but generating waves big enough to hamper the cleanup effort 500 miles away. Oil cleanup workers were evacuated from the beach in Port Fourchon, La., on Tuesday because… read more
Oil Spill Reaches Mississippi Shores (VIDEO)
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Mississippi Maritime News on June 28, 2010
HORN ISLAND, MS – Folks at Lake Mars Landing in Jackson County, Mississippi say their worst nightmare has come true. Sticky globs of oil are washing up in Mississippi waters.
More Oil Spews Into Gulf After Cap Problem
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Transocean on June 23, 2010
NEW ORLEANS – Gas and oil continue to leak from the containment cap at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site gushing more oil into the Gulf. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says an underwater robot bumped into the venting system. That sent gas rising through a vent that carries warm water down to prevent ice-like… read more
An Emotionless Tony Hayward Testifies Before Congress (VIDEO)
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Government,Gulf Coast on June 17, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC – BP chief executive Tony Hayward came under intense fire at a House hearing on Thursday for paying little attention to risks being run at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig before it exploded and caught fire on April 20. Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,… read more
BP Agrees To $20 Billion Escrow Fund After Obama Meeting
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Government,Gulf Coast on June 16, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama met with BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, CEO Tony Hayward, and other officials in the West Wing of The White House Wednesday morning. The meeting comes the morning after Obama vowed to an angry nation that “we will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused.” BP is the… read more
Aerial View of Gulf Oil Spill Day 49 – Video & Photos
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News on June 8, 2010
GRAND ISLE, La – Kerry Sanders from The Today Show took a flight, June 7, on a Coast Guard helicopter for an aerial view of the Gulf Coast disaster. The view shows the scope of the devastation of the oil spill on day 49 of the greatest environmental disaster of our time. As Sanders reports… read more
BP Captures More Oil But Spill Could Go Into Fall
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Government,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Transocean on June 7, 2010
Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, appearing on CBS Face The Nation, said on Sunday that BP was succeeding in capturing more oil from its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico, but cautioned that efforts to cap and clean up what’s already the largest oil spill in American history would stretch into the fall. “We’re… read more