by Associated Press Published: July 29,2010
Tags: disaster, energy, environment, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill
GULF OF MEXICO — BP PLC says it has paid $256 million — including $30 million over the past week — for lost income or business profit resulting from the Gulf oil spill. The company says will start sending at least another $60 million in advance money to cover August by the end of the week. The [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 29,2010
Tags: commercial fishermen, disaster, energy, environment, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, oysters
BATON ROUGE, La. — Oyster fishermen don’t know if they’ll be paid by BP for the shellfish deaths caused by opening the state’s freshwater diversion structures in a bid to flush out oil encroaching on the oyster beds because of the Gulf spill. The decision to open the release valves on the Mississippi River diversions was [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 29,2010
Tags: disaster, energy, environment, health, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, tourism
GULF COAST — Gulf beaches from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle have been closed or slapped with health warnings nearly 10 times more often this summer than last because of oil from BP’s massive deepwater leak, according to a report yesterday by a national environmental group. While many beaches were spared, more than 2,200 closings, health [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: July 28,2010
Tags: commercial fishermen, energy, environment, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, shrimping
GULF OF MEXICO — Due to reports of unusually high numbers of endangered sea turtle sightings and strandings in Mississippi, an effort is being made to increase the survivability of any sea turtles that may become captured in a skimmer shrimp trawl. To support this effort, the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is partnering with the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 28,2010
Tags: disaster, energy, environment, finances, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill
WASHINGTON — BP says the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department are conducting informal inquiries into securities matters arising from the Gulf oil spill. BP disclosed the probe yesterday in a filing with the SEC, marking the latest development in the evolving government investigations following the April 20 explosion and fire on the BP-operated [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 27,2010
Tags: disaster, energy, environment, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill
GULF OF MEXICO — The newly named CEO of BP says his top priority is sealing its blown oil well for good and cleaning and restoring the Gulf of Mexico. Bob Dudley said on ABC television today he does not expect any more oil to gush into the Gulf as BP PLC moves to permanently plug [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 26,2010
Tags: energy, environment, executive management, natural disaster, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, senior management
HATTIESBURG — BP PLC said today that “no final decision” has been made about management changes, which reportedly include the departure of Tony Hayward as chief executive in an effort to mend the company’s image after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The oil company said its board would meet this evening, a day before it [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 23,2010
Tags: commercial fishing, disaster, energy, environment, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill
GULF OF MEXICO — The government is allowing commercial and recreational fishing again in roughly one third of the waters it had closed because of the BP oil spill. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the area that reopened yesterday is 26,388 square miles of federal waters in the Gulf. The administration said that since mid-June, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 23,2010
Tags: courts, disaster, energy, environment, lawsuits, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Attorney General Troy King said yesterday he plans to sue BP, seeking tax revenue lost because of the impact of the Gulf oil spill on businesses and to recoup any state money spent on the cleanup. King criticized the job BP and claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg have done in resolving claims. He [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: July 23,2010
Tags: Congress, disaster, energy, environment, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill
WASHINGTON – Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are among a bipartisan group of lawmakers who are putting pressure on the Department of the Interior to allow shallow water energy development in the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi lawmakers were among a group who signed a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking that the [...] [...]
