by Associated Press Published: February 10,2012
Tags: casinos, Conventions, disaster, energy, environment, explosion, gambling, gaming, gas, habitat, hospitality, hotels, leases, lodging, meetings, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, restaurants, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors, wildlife
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Mississippi casino operators say they trust state leaders that exploration and drilling would be low-key for natural gas and out of sight of most of the mainland.
However, the operators say in a letter to the Mississippi Development Authority, that they don’t want tourist areas overrun by industrial equipment, boats and workers.
The [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 1,2012
Tags: attorneys, contracts, courts, damages, disaster, disaster recovery, environment, explosion, gas, gasoline, habitat, judges, judicial, judiciary, law, lawyers, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled yesterday that Halliburton could avoid paying most of the pollution claims that resulted from the catastrophic 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill because it was shielded in a contract with well-owner BP.
Still, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier said that Halliburton is not exempt from paying punitive damages and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 30,2012
Tags: courts, disaster, disaster recovery, email, energy, environment, explosion, gas, habitat, judges, law, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill site, crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 3.4 million gallons a day, an amount a million [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 29,2012
Tags: claims, courts, damasges, disaster, disaster recovery, energy, environment, explosion, gas, habitat, law, lawsuit, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — The rig owner involved in drilling the ill-fated well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico and spewed more than 200 million gallons of oil will not have to pay many of the pollution claims because it was shielded in a contract with well-owner BP, a federal judge ruled. The [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 26,2012
Tags: disaster, energy, environment, explosion, federal government, gas, leases, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, petroleum, sale, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors
GULF OF MEXICO — The Department of Interior says it has set a June date for the next Gulf offshore oil and natural gas lease sale.
The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
The sale will take place in New Orleans on June 20.
The proposed lease [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 24,2012
Tags: disaster, disaster recovery, energy, explosion, gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors
GULFPORT — BP has told the city of Gulfport it has no documents to support a claim for $11.8 million in compensation for community damages from the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion and spill.
Specifically, the Sun Herald reports BP says the city failed to document any sales or property tax losses from the oil spill through [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 23,2012
Tags: courts, disaster, disaster recovery, energy, environment, explosion, gas, judges, judicial, judiciary, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has shot down BP’s request to penalize Halliburton for allegedly destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.
BP did not prove that it had been “prejudiced” by [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 20,2012
Tags: attorneys, courts, disaster, energy, environment, explosion, food, gas, judges, law, lawyers, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ruled that people pursuing their Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims against BP outside of federal court do not have to pay fees to hundreds of lawyers working on behalf of about 120,000 claimants fighting the oil giant in court.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier issued the ruling to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 18,2012
Tags: disaster, disaster recovery, energy, environment, explosion, gas, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, petroleum, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors, wildlife
GAUTIER — Federal and state officials have presented plans to hold BP to its promise to make the Gulf whole in the wake of the 2010 oil-spill disaster.
A meeting last night in Gautier attracted more than 100 people. It was the first of three scheduled along the Mississippi Coast and 12 along the northern Gulf [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 10,2012
Tags: disaster, energy, environment, explosion, federal government, gas, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, pollution, seafood, tourism, tourists, visitors
GULF OF MEXICO — Federal scientists say a new chemistry-based analysis of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico closely matches official estimates released at the time of the spill.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a new study found that an average of 11,130 tons of gas and oil compounds per day [...] [...]
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