by Associated Press Published: December 20,2011
Tags: Alabama, british petroleum, Dan Turner, Deepwater Horizon, Democrat, Gov. Phil Bryant, gulf of mexico, JACKSON, Louie Miller, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Development Authority, oil drilling, republican, Ship Island, sierra club
JACKSON — Allowing oil and gas drilling 10 to 12 miles south of Mississippi’s coastline in the Gulf of Mexico is a good idea because it could generate state revenue, Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday.
The Mississippi Development Authority on Monday published proposed regulations to lease state waters in the Gulf for the drilling.
The regulations are [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — An independent audit will be performed on the $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday.
In a letter to the fund’s administrator, Kenneth Feinberg, Holder stressed that the goal is to balance [...] [...]
BILOXI — Derick Ross, his father and his younger brother boarded the 53-foot Mark and Dawn and set out to ply Mississippi waters for shrimp this week, just as Rosses have done since ancestors arrived here from Alabama on a schooner in 1896.
By noon, fishing in wind and choppy water around Horn [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 6,2010
Tags: Alabama, Barack Obama, Bill Salvin, BP, Brett/Robinson Vacations, british petroleum, Daryl Carpenter, Doug Suttles, Flora-Bama Lounge, Florida, Frank Besson, Gulf Coast, gulf of mexico, Guy Cantwel, John Curry, Larry Schweiger, Louisiana, Mississippi, National Wildlife Federation, Nez Coupe Souvenir & Tackle, Pensacola, Perdido Key, Rear Adm. Mary Landry, Steve Ownesby, Transocean Ltd, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, Vincent Van Gogh, Wild Well Control
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — With success uncertain, a boat carrying a 100-ton concrete-and-steel contraption designed to siphon off the oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico arrived at the scene Thursday in an unprecedented attempt to cap a blown-out well spewing hundreds of thousands of gallons a day.
Another boat [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 5,2010
Tags: Barack Obama, BILOXI, british petroleum, Chandeleur Islands, gulf of mexico, Guy Cantwell, John Curry, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi River, Pascagoula, Plaquemines Parish, Transocean Ltd, University of Miami
PORT FORCHOUN, La. — A 100-ton contraption to help funnel out oil spewing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was loaded onto a barge Wednesday so it could begin its journey to the leak site about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.
The giant-concrete-and-steel box is the best short-term [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 5,2010
Tags: Alabama, Anna Aurilio, Barack Obama, BP, british petroleum, Carol Browner, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Environment America, Florida, gulf of mexico, John Hofmeister, Lousiana, Mississippi, Myron Ebell, oil spill, Shell Oil Co., Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Three Mile Island, White House
HOUSTON — America is seeing the usually hidden costs of fossil fuels – an oil spill’s potential for huge environmental and economic damage, and deaths in coal and oil industry accidents.
But don’t expect much to change. America and the world crave more oil and coal, no matter the all-too-risky ways needed [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 5,2010
Tags: Alabama, Barack Obama, Bill Salvin, BP, Brett/Robinson Vacations, british petroleum, Daryl Carpenter, Doug Suttles, Flora-Bama Lounge, Florida, Frank Besson, Gulf Coast, gulf of mexico, Guy Cantwel, John Curry, Larry Schweiger, Louisiana, Mississippi, National Wildlife Federation, Nez Coupe Souvenir & Tackle, Pensacola, Perdido Key, Rear Adm. Mary Landry, Steve Ownesby, Transocean Ltd, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, Vincent Van Gogh, Wild Well Control
NEW ORLEANS — The best short-term solution to bottling up a disastrous oil spill threatening sealife and livelihoods along the Gulf Coast should be arriving on Wednesday in the form of a specially built giant concrete-and-steel box designed to siphon the oil away.
Crews for contractor Wild Well Control were putting the [...] [...]
After an attempt to keep updated natural gas price forecasts out of the upcoming Public Service Commission hearings regarding the proposed Kemper County coal plant, Mississippi Power Company filed the data confidentially with the Commission.
In a November motion MPC said that the Commission’s request for additional natural gas price forecasts for the February resource [...] [...]
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