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BP Says Leak in Pipe is Fixed, Testing To Begin
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 15, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, La. – BP said Thursday they hope to restart the testing process on the cap it’s put on top of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill now that a leak in the machinery has been fixed.
Crawfisher Drew Landry Sings Stirring Folk Song to Oil Spill Commission (VIDEO)
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Government,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 14, 2010
Louisiana crawfisher, Drew Landry, a native of Lafeyette, Louisiana and a Cajun singer-songwriter, addresses the White House Oil Spill Commission and sings about the devasting economic environment, the effect on the unemployed workers and ecosystem The song is a moving real honest to goodness folk song that evokes emotion and tells the story of the… read more
Fired BP Contractor Adam Dillon Becomes A Whistleblower (VIDEO)
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Environment,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News on July 12, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, La. – As a BP contractor and liaison, Adam Dillon had rebuffed reporters’ attempts to observe cleanup operations in Grand Isle, LA, in June, before being promoted to the BP Command Center near Houma, LA. At the command center BP manages the private contractors running practically every aspect of the spill response. Dillon,… read more
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
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
BP Appoints Bob Dudley Former Mississippian as CEO of Gulf Coast Restoration
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News on June 23, 2010
BP has set up a new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization unit, headed by former Mississippian Robert Dudley, to manage its response to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Dudley, who was born in New York and raised in Mississippi, reports to BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward. BP’s new appointment is an effort to… read more
Five Survivors Tell How They Escaped the Night of the Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Transocean on June 22, 2010
The following account of the night of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster is based on exclusive interviews with five survivors and three of their wives conducted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and the CNN Special Investigations Unit. Maritime lawyers, Gordon & Elias, LLP, represent several of the survivors that participated in the interviews. The interviews… read more