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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
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
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
How To Apply for BP Unemployed Oil Rig Workers Compensation Fund
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Government,Gulf Coast on June 17, 2010
BP Establishes $100M Fund to Support Unemployed Oil Rig Workers Through Baton Rouge Foundation On July 30, 2010, BP announced in a press release that it will establish a $100 million charitable fund to support unemployed rig workers experiencing economic hardship as a result of the moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by the United States… read more
Letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward From Congress Before His Testimony
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Government,Gulf Coast on June 16, 2010
BP CEO, Tony Hayward, is scheduled to appear at a House Energy and Commerce oversight and investigations subcommittee hearing, Thursday June 17. The subject of the hearing is the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. The following are excerpts from a letter to Hayward from Congress dated June 14, identifying… 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