The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council has extended the period for formal public comment on the Draft Initial Comprehensive Plan: “Restoring the Gulf Coast’s Ecosystem and Economy” and accompanying “Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment” to July 8, 2013. The Draft Initial Comprehensive Plan provides a framework to implement a coordinated region-wide restoration effort in a way…
The federal on-scene coordinator for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster of 2010 has announced that the Gulf Coast Incident Management Team has started the transition back to routine National Response Center reporting, an indication that the federal government’s role is moving into a post-spill phase of operations after the largest and most devastating environmental…
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council released the a draft report with a plan for restoring the Gulf Coast’s ecosystem and economy this week, along with a draft environmental assessment now available for formal public comment. The plan provides a framework to implement a coordinated region-wide restoration effort in a way that restores, protects, and…
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 – The Obama administration has suspended all new contracts with the British petroleum giant BP for “lack of business integrity” due to its actions that caused the worst environmental disaster in history two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico and for the way the company responded to the crisis. The U.S.…
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…
Greg Palast’s BBC crew of journalist-detectives chase down British Petroleum bag men, CIA operatives, nuclear power con men — and “The Vultures,” billionaire financial speculators who, through bribery, flim-flam and political muscle, take entire nations hostage for mega-profits. The action begins when the Deepwater Horizon explodes in the Gulf of Mexico and a confidential cable…
WKRG.com News Scientists at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in South Alabama have published a study showing oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster making its way into the Gulf of Mexico food chain. Dr. Monty Graham, the lead researcher, says the research actually shows the eco-system at work breaking down the carbon. “A lot of…
David Underhill of the Mobile Alabama Sierra Club protests BP People in communities along the Gulf Coast will gather for a protest on the six month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that tragically killed 11 and led to the worst oil spill and environmental disaster in U.S. history. Approximately 200 million gallons…
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Graphic by Glynn Wilson Based on what is being called a “rigorous review” of previously released preliminary data by a team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, the federal agency has compiled an expanded report of the birds rescued and collected during the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil…
Glynn Wilson Looking at the sunset over Mobile Bay from the north side of the Fort Morgan peninsula, knowing that the Gulf of Mexico and the bay nearby are full of crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon, one can’t help but wonder if this is the final sunset in the summer of discontent for a…
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…
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…
US Navy RACCOON ISLAND, La. – Members of Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Team (SCAT) survey Raccoon Island for oil debris on the shoreline and wildlife. Raccoon Island is a protected bird breeding sanctuary with a variety of breeds. SCAT is working in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard, BP, local residents and other federal agencies to…
On the 30-day anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that has led to what may be one of the worst environmental disasters this country has ever seen, Defenders of Wildlife takes a look at 20 ways the oil industry and our federal government have failed to keep us safe from the dangers that offshore…
A John Wathen Video Thanks to Southwings.org SouthWings pilot Tom Hutchings and Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen fly to the source of BP’s oil spill from the Louisiana coast and show crude mixed with dispersant chemicals washing up on the beaches and in the marshes.
No Direct Threat to Gulf Beaches, But Tarballs From Spill Confirmed NOAA [Click on the image for a larger view] The half-dozen golf ball size tarballs that washed ashore on Dauphin Island beaches Saturday are believed to be from the Deepwater Horizon spill, according to the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center. The Louisiana State…
