Here’s one more interesting tidbit from the claims process statistics released yesterday by Kenneth Feinberg’s Gulf Coast Claims Facility. More than 1,300 people have filed claims for a final payment for damages from the Gulf oil spill. If it’s not a mistake, those who have filed for a final More…
The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which is being overseen by independent administrator Kenneth Feinberg, has been up and running for more than a week now. Feinberg has said all individual claims will be processed within 48 hours and business claims will be processed within seven days. But, according to More…
The Houston Chronicle reported late last night that Michael Bromwich — director of the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, which replaced the much-maligned Minerals Management Service — has imposed a wide-reaching conflict-of-interest policy on federal employees overseeing offshore drilling.
I spoke with George Barisich, a third generation shrimper, earlier this week about the his first shrimping trip since the moratorium on fishing that was imposed in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill was lifted. Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fisherman’s Association, says times are still tough for More…
The first panel of a day-long meeting of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling just ended. I’ll be blogging the meeting all day.
In opening remarks, former Senator Bob Graham, co-chair of the commission, called the spill an “enormous and shared failure.” And More…
While President Obama may choose to end the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling a month early, it doesn’t look like we’ll see any new drilling until 2011, Bloomberg reports:
On the same day that former Minerals Management Service chief Elizabeth Birnbaum is slated to testify before the national oil spill commission, The Washington Post published a lengthy story on the history of the often cozy relationship between the agency and the oil industry.
The oil industry says the press “lacks balance” in its coverage. “In recent years, oil — a naturally-occurring energy resource — has been accused of being addictive, blamed for changing the climate, chastised for despoiling the environment and criticized for enabling the internal combustion engine,” writes American Petroleum Institute Senior More…
A group of environmentalists with the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) say they found dozens of dead birds on a recent trip to observe the impacts of the oil spill on an island near Lake Chien and Lake Felicity off the coast of Louisiana.
While it is not certain the More…
The Houston Chronicle reported today that BP identified in September of last year dozens of concerns with the Deepwater Horizon rig, the rig that exploded and led to the Gulf oil spill. The Chronicle noted that it’s unclear whether those issues were addressed before the rig exploded in April.
According More…
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