News Tagged ‘Mississippi’
BP plans big U.S. expansion, wants public trust back
Priding itself on “making things right” in Gulf of Mexico and coastal communities hard-hit the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP says it has big plans for expanding its operations in the United States. The announcement wasn’t supposed to comfort residents and businesses still struggling to recover in the BP spill’s oily aftermath, but to reassure investors that it doesn’t intend to hold back on its push to find and extract more oil and gas from U.S. lands and waters, despite the ongoing destruction of Gulf ecosystems and frustration of people who depend on them for a living.
BCS Championship game gives BP golden advertising opportunities
Monday night’s BCS National Championship showdown between the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University, broadcast nationwide from the Superdome in New Orleans, provided a tantalizing opportunity for BP to release what the Associated Press aptly called a “slick nationwide public relations campaign to persuade Americans that the Gulf region has recovered.”
One year after BP oil spill, Lousiana shrimpers report rock-bottom yields
Shrimp season ended in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday night, bringing a close to possibly the worst season for catching white shrimp in many years. Officials probing the possible causes of this season’s disastrous shrimp yield say it’s too early to tell whether BP’s record-shattering Gulf oil spill is to blame for the disastrous shrimp yield.
Report says BP oil spill created pollution of large city in middle of Gulf
Not long after the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010, people in the coastal areas of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida began complaining of respiratory irritation, headaches, dizziness, and other symptoms they believe were linked to the noxious fumes of the BP oil spill. Now a new government report about the pollution emitted from the spill and the attempts to clean it up may support such claims.
Shell spills oil, drilling mud off Alabama coast
Global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell announced on Sunday that its Appomattox well off the Alabama coast spilled 319 barrels of oil and drilling fluids into the Gulf of Mexico. This latest spill occurred about 20 miles from BP’s failed Macondo well, which was ground-zero for the massive oil spill that erupted in the Gulf on April 20, 2010.
BP, Cameron International reach oil-spill agreement
BP has reached a settlement with Cameron International, another one of its contractors involved in the Macondo well operations that ended in a deadly explosion and set off the catastrophic Gulf oil spill. BP sued Cameron and other companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon‘s drilling operations, claiming each played a role in the April 2010 explosion that killed 11 workers and set off the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
Dispute heats up over use of BP oil spill fine money
A group of Gulf Coast officials went to Washington this week to urge passage of the RESTORE Act, a piece of legislation designed to ensure that 80 percent of the oil-spill fine money BP pays to the federal government would go to the states directly affected by the disaster: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
Oil and tar reappears on Gulf beaches after Tropical Storm Lee
When Tropical Storm Lee pummeled the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas over the weekend, it left many coastal residents wondering if there would ever be an end to the BP oil spill. Many residents in coastal areas from Florida to Louisiana found that the storm’s heavy winds and rough surf deposited globs of tar on the beach or exposed oil that had been buried in the sand.
Louisiana’s oyster production still struggles after oil spill
The typical oyster season in Louisiana, which starts in September, produces an average of 25o million pounds of oysters – about one-third of the nation’s oyster supply. This year, however, thanks to the BP oil spill and the Mississippi River floods in May, water salinity levels will cause oyster production to plummet to half its usual volume. Moreover, the 2012 harvest is expected to be about just 35 percent of the average yield.