Clearly BP’s Oil is Not Yet Gone, or Forgotten WKRG.com News A giant oil mat, nearly an eighth of a mile long, is washing up west of Cotton Bayou in Orange Beach, Alabama, according to a local television news crew. BP clean up contractors came to the scene when they were notified and brought in…
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Local TV News Crew Complains About BP
WKRG.com News In a post under the headline Communicating With BP Nearly Impossible, local television news station WKRG news 5 reports on “Operation Deep Clean.” BP’s answer to cleaning Baldwin County’s beaches following the oil spill is in its fifth week. Crews are cleaning 500 square yard grids of beach at a time and will…
BP Oil Victims Grow Sick, Local Doctors Seem Clueless
Lisa Nelson of Orange Beach, Alabama is one of a growing number of people sick and dying as a result of the BP Gulf oil disaster. Local physicians have no idea how to diagnose or treat patients who have been exposed to highly toxic crude/dispersant combination, according to Jerry Cope, who has written about the…
Thousands of People Along the Gulf Coast Suffer ‘BP Crud’
The Untold Story of Human Health Effects From BP’s Oil Disaster Editor’s Note: The Washington Post was given an opportunity for first, exclusive rights to publish this story Tuesday, but took a pass “because of the complicated nature of this story and our concerns that it’s too early to judge the real health effects.” Due…
Community Health Forum in Orange Beach Tuesday
There will be a community forum for the public concerned about health effects from the BP oil spill on Tuesday, Sept. 7, in Orange Beach Alabama. We have a story about this issue in the pipeline at Spot.us if any news organization wants to talk about running it. Here’s the flyer for the event.
Oily Water Closes Down Gulf Fishing, Tourists Stay Away
Glynn Wilson Gulf Shores beaches are normally packed this time of year. Not so now, with BP’s oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Glynn Wilson One family even went swimming in the Gulf while we were there, in spite of oil in the water nearby. People should not be swimming in these waters,…
Exclusive Video: BP Hires Convict Labor in Beach Cleanup
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…
Gulf Coast Gears Up for Oil Spill Impacts
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…
Will Trade Beach House for Ad Space
We are looking for a house along the Gulf Coast to rent on a long-term basis to use as a Southern Bureau for The Locust Fork News-Journal and The Southerner Journal as well as BPOilSlick.blogspot.com. If you want to hang out with interesting writers, photographers and videographers, and promote your property on the highest traffic…
