BP to admit $1m-a-week advertising spree
The company is tomorrow expected to deliver a much-anticipated report to the US House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce committee after it demanded to know how much money BP has spent on advertising and marketing over the past four months. It is understood the company intends to co-operate with the committee’s...
No BP investigation, the Senate blocked it.
BP is accused of withholding ‘critical’ spill data. And they will continue to withhold it, because the Democrat-controlled Senate has voted to block the White House’s investigative committee from having subpoena power. Predictably, it’s going to spun that the GOP is somehow at fault. This is going to be said, even...
BP was warned of gas danger, contractor says
HOUSTON — A contractor to BP testified Tuesday that he warned BP that it risked gas leaks in the Macondo well if it cut back on stabilizers for the pipe going down the hole. The warning, he told the Coast Guard-led inquiry into the disaster, was sent via e-mails to BP engineers, including one who refused to testify on Tuesday. Jesse...
Study: Oil spill cleanup workers suffered chromosome damage, respiratory issues
Spanish fishermen who took part in a clean-up operation after the Prestige oil tanker spill in 2002 have shown symptoms of chromosomal damage and respiratory problems, a study released Tuesday said. The study, conducted by Spanish researchers between September 2004 and February 2005 on 501 fishermen who helped clean up Europe’s...
State authorities say fish kill in St. Bernard Parish waters likely caused by low oxygen levels | NOLA.com
Bob Warren, The Times-Picayune St. Bernard Parish authorities have reported a large fish kill at the mouth of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, but state wildlife officials say it does not appear to be directly related to oil from the BP leak. Randy Pausina, head fisheries biologist for the state, said Department of Wildlife...
Gov’t: 23K workers affected by Gulf oil drill ban
WASHINGTON — A six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would directly put more than 9,000 people out of work and indirectly affect another 14,000 jobs, according to a memo from the nation’s top drilling regulator. The federal document, which weighed the economic impact and alternatives to the ban, was...
New guidelines could rule out many oil claims
MIAMI (AP) – A flower shop in Florida that saw a drop-off in weddings this summer is probably out of luck. So is a restaurant in Idaho that had to switch seafood suppliers. A hardware store on the Mississippi coast may be left out, too. The latest guidelines for BP’s $20 billion victims compensation fund say the...
Activist: Gulf fishermen being held responsible for toxic seafood
By Daniel Tencer The US government, and even President Obama himself, have said that Gulf seafood is safe to eat in the wake of the massive BP oil spill. But an admission from the federal government that it hasn’t been testing Gulf seafood for toxic heavy metals, and news that fishermen are being forced to sign waivers...
Major study proves oil plume that’s not going away
By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON — The oil is there, at least 22 miles of it. You just can’t see it. A lot of the crude that spewed from BP’s ruptured well is still in the Gulf of Mexico, but it’s far below the surface and invisible. And it’s likely to linger for months on end, scientists said Thursday...
BP rejects claims it is hiding data on rig explosion
Energy giant BP has been accused of hiding key data needed to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Transocean, the company that owned the oil rig, alleged that BP is refusing to hand over information it needs about the explosion. The claim is made in a letter from one of Transocean’s lawyers sent to members of...
New Orleans mayor tells media group BP is ‘poised to cut and run’
By Eric Marrapodi Washington (CNN) — New Orleans, Louisiana, Mayor Mitch Landrieu walked a political tightrope Thursday in Washington, D.C., as he assessed the progress of his city for a luncheon audience at the National Press Club. He was invited to speak to the journalism organization about the progress the city...
BP oil spill: Final Gulf of Mexico well seal delayed
An operation to permanently seal the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been delayed until early September, US officials say. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said oil firm BP needed to replace key equipment before starting the procedure, which involves pumping cement into the well. BP had intended to start the process,...
Florida could ask BP for $1 billion in oil-spill relief
By Doreen Hemlock Florida could ask oil giant BP for more than $1 billion to offset losses of tax revenues, outlays for cleanup and other damages from the company’s massive Gulf spill, an adviser to Gov. Charlie Crist said Thursday. While the state tallies the exact damages, it would like an “interim” BP...
Top Oil Expert: Geology is “Fractured”, Relief Wells May Fail and Oil May Leak for Years … BP is Using a “Cloak of Silence”, and Refusing to Share Even Basic Data with the Government
Washington’s Blog Few people in the world know more about oil drilling disasters than Dr. Robert Bea. Bea teaches engineering at the University of California Berkeley, and has 55 years of experience in engineering and management of design, construction, maintenance, operation, and decommissioning of engineered...
BP Well Manager Said No Warning of Blowout Before Disaster
By Joe Carroll and Jim Snyder BP Plc’s senior manager on the Deepwater Horizon rig saw no indications that natural gas was surging up a pipe before the explosion that set off the biggest U.S. oil spill, according to notes from an internal inquiry. Donald Vidrine, BP’s well-site leader aboard the rig in the Gulf of Mexico...
YouTube – MSNBC: Feds getting “tremendous pushback from scientific community” over disappearing oil
YouTube – MSNBC: Feds getting “tremendous pushback from scientific community” over disappearing oil. Read More →
The Government Lies to the American People About the Safety of Gulf Seafood
Washington’s Blog The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) just announced: For the seafood to pose a health risk, the food would have to be heavily contaminated with oil, and would therefore have a strong odor and taste of oil. That is patently untrue. As I pointed out in June: Crude oil contains such powerful cancer-causing...
Gulf oil traces spread east on sea floor, researchers say
Ed Lavandera and Rich Phillips St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN) — Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected and at levels toxic to marine life, researchers reported Monday. Initial findings from a new survey of the Gulf conclude that...
Gulf fishermen: oil tainted our waters, our trust
By Leigh Coleman Mississippi (Reuters) – Some U.S. Gulf Coast fishermen say they have caught crabs with black-stained gills and others report seeing fish and marine life gathering strangely on the sea surface following the massive BP Plc oil spill. They fear these abnormalities could point to a lasting and potentially...
Relief Wells Delayed … New Tests Show “Gap” in Oil “Well Column” Causing Loss of Pressure … Does the Government Have ANY IDEA What It’s Doing?
An oil and gas industry veteran with 30 years experience who goes by the alias Fishgrease gave a pretty good recap of BP and the government’s record of failure in capping the oil well: BP does a superhuman job of creating conditions favorable to loss of control of what is very possibly the largest well in the history...
