The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s been about three years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. By the time engineers finally figured out how to cap the Macondo well in July, it had leaked 4.9 million barrels or 210 million gallons of…
NEW ORLEANS, La. – British Petroleum and Transocean have received approval from the U.S. Coast Guard to proceed with another investigation of the Deepwater Horizon wreckage and wellhead site in the Gulf of Mexico with Remotely Operated Vehicles after a sheen was reported on November 2 and verified by satellite imagery. A joint plan to…
By Glynn Wilson – Less than two weeks after President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term, the Obama administration announced a major settlement agreement with the British Petroleum corporation in the largest and worst environmental disaster in U.S. history when BP’s Deepwater Horizon exploded and began leaking millions of barrels of sweet crude…
Glynn Wilson | Thanks to Southwings.org by Glynn Wilson British Petroleum company has reached a tentative settlement agreement with a large number of people along the Gulf of Mexico coast who are suing for damages from the largest and most devastating environmental disaster in U.S. history. If the plaintiffs agree to the final settlement and…
NEW ORLEANS, La. — We toured Barataria Bay in southern Louisiana with the Gulf Restoration Network and a representative from the Louisiana Shrimp Association this week and found oil-stained marshes, washed up oil-soaked boom and brown pelicans with their wings soaked in oil and chemicals. This is our innovative new form of story telling on…
Money to be Used for Massive Cleanup by Glynn Wilson Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Under orders from President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, the Minerals Management Service is drafting a plan to nationalize the Gulf oil assets of the British Petroleum corporation and to seize all revenue from the…
by Glynn Wilson The Minerals Management Service continues to approve new deepwater oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico even after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and a change in policy on drilling by the Obama administration, giving British Petroleum and other companies the right to drill even more wells under the same inadequate oversight…
The Day Deepwater Horizon Oil Hit Alabama’s Beaches The British Petroleum corporation is hiring convict labor, including illegal immigrants, to clean the beaches along the Gulf Coast instead of contracting with local fishermen who are out of work due to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as they promised publicly. In trying to…
Recovering Economies Threatened Glynn Wilson A spectacular Sunday view of the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, from the new Gulf State Park fishing pier. [Click on the image for a larger view.] According to the park’s assistant manager Milton Rittelmeyer, the new pier is projected to generate more than a half a million dollars a…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Tours Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Videography by Stew Jones Produced by Glynn Wilson It took about 17 days after the BP Deep Horizon oil well blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, but Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar showed up on the Gulf Coast on Friday, May…
Interior Secretary Salazar Responds for the First Time Glynn Wilson Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, addresses the media at Gator Lake and Little Lagoon in the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in South Alabama. On his left is state Rep. Steve McMillan, a Bay Minette Republican. On his right is Robert Craft, mayor of…
