by Associated Press Published: March 1,2013
Tags: accident, bench, case, court, crude oil, death, disaster, ecosystem, emergency, energy, environment, executive, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, investigation, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, probe, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — An internal BP probe of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn’t explore whether decisions by upper-level management or cost cuts had a role in causing the disaster because investigators didn’t have access to its partners’ employees and records, a BP executive testified yesterday at a trial designed to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 27,2013
Tags: case, court, disaster, ecosystem, energy, explosion, justice, law, legal, offshore drilling, Oil, oilrig, pollution, seafood, tourism, trial, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — The first BP executive to testify at a federal trial over the nation’s worst oil spill was to take the stand for a second day today before a judge tasked with deciding whether the London-based oil giant and other companies acted with gross negligence for the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 26,2013
Tags: accident, bench, court, crude oil, death, ecosystem, emergency, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoliner, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, naural gas, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — An expert witness for people and businesses who sued BP over the Gulf oil spill says he found ample evidence that the company’s cost-cutting culture led to the disaster. University of California-Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea testified today at a civil trial. He says BP PLC didn’t implement a safety management program [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 25,2013
Tags: accident, court, crude oil, death, disaster, ecosystem, emergency, energy, environment, erxplosion, fatality, law, legal, offshore drilling, oil spill, oilrig, pollution, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — A high-stakes trial started today to assign blame and help figure out exactly how much more BP and other companies should pay for the nation’s worst offshore oil spill. Attorney Jim Roy, who represents individuals and businesses hurt by the spill, said BP executives applied “huge financial pressure” on its drilling [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 21,2013
Tags: audit, city government, ecosystem, environment, federal agency, federal government, federal law, municipal, municipality, pollution, public health, sewage, state agency, wadstewater, wildlife
STARKVILLE — The city of Starkville faces retroactive fines due to past overflow incidents involving its sanitary sewage system. The Commercial Dispatch reports public works director Doug Devlin did not have a fine estimate for aldermen, but did say a scheduled March conference call with Environmental Protection Agency regulators could shed light on the penalties [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 21,2013
Tags: board of supervisors, boat, boater, boating, county government, dredge, ecosystem, environment, martimie, navigation, pollution, ship, shipping, state agency, supervisor, wildlife
PASCAGOULA – The Jackson County Board of Supervisors has filed an application for a wetlands permit with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources requesting authorization to maintenance dredge the Lake Yazoo Canal in Pascagoula. The proposed dredging is 2,200 feet in length and an average of 60 feet in width from a depth ranging from [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 20,2013
Tags: accident, court, crude oil, death, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, federal government, fuel, gasoline, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — BP and the federal government have agreed that 34 million gallons of oil captured during the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico can’t count toward civil penalties the oil giant faces. The agreement is contained in a court filing yesterday. It came in response to BP’s argument that workers [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 19,2013
Tags: accident, crime, crude oil, damage, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fuel, gasoline, ioilrig, judicial, judiciary, justice, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, petroleum, pil spill, seafood, settlement, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — BP acknowledged today it had failed to reach a settlement in advance of next week’s civil trial on the Deepwater Horizon accident and is ready to defend itself vigorously against allegations of gross negligence in the U.S.’s biggest environmental disaster. Rupert Bondy, the group’s general counsel, said in a statement that [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 19,2013
Tags: accident, barge, boater, boating, ecosystem, environment, national defense, navigation, Oil, oil spill, pollution, river, towboat, wildlife, wrechk collision
VICKSBURG — After a two-barge tow carrying 1.5 million gallons of oil hit the U.S. Highway 80 bridge in the early morning hours of Jan. 27, Coast Guard officials had to rely on a Vicksburg industry to respond. “We don’t have a specific search and rescue presence here in Vicksburg,” said Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca Walthour [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 15,2013
Tags: accident, barge, boat, boater, boating, bridge, cleanup, collision, ecosystem, environment, infrastructure, inspection, navigation, opil spill, ship, shipper, shipping, towboat, transportation, wildlife
VICKSBURG — A towboat company that owns the barges that struck a Mississippi River bridge in Vicksburg will be billed $2,200 for the span’s post-accident inspection. A two-barge tow pushed by the towboat Natures Way Endeavor, based in Theodore, Ala., struck the bridge at about 1 a.m. Jan. 27, causing one of the barges to [...] [...]
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