Blogging from Slidell, Louisiana about loving life on the Gulf Coast despite BP and Katrina
Sunday, May 02, 2010
BP Playing Dirty
Alabama Attorney General Troy King said tonight that he has told representatives of BP Plc. that they should stop circulating settlement agreements among coastal Alabamians.
The agreements, King said, essentially require that people give up the right to sue in exchange for payment of up to $5,000.
King said BP's efforts were particularly strong in Bayou La Batre.
This is similar to BP's efforts in Louisiana to have workers in the cleanup process
sign away any rights they may have in the future to sue BP over losses, just by working for them. The work applications were later torn up due to "confusion".
These S.O.B.s will stop at nothing.
Update 5/3/2010:
Despite a Sunday federal-court decision to the contrary, BP representatives today were telling would-be cleanup mariners that they had to absolve the oil giant of any liability if they wanted to get the lucrative work.
The contracts handed out at the John A. Alario Center on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish included language that was supposed to have been struck after the ruling by Judge Ginger Berrigan Sunday. In addition to the liability provisions, a copy of the contract obtained by The Lens prohibited the sailors from talking to reporters, another provision voided by Berrigan.
another scuzzbucket
The brother of Louisiana senator Landrieu thinks and hopes the oil slick will just go away.
Taylor expects spill to break up naturally - Oil Spill - SunHerald.com
Taylor expects spill to break up naturally - Oil Spill - SunHerald.com
A Contact for Volunteering

The Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary is the fastest disappearing landmark on Earth! You can help save our home by joining us in supporting common-sense restoration solutions and by volunteering to restore our coastal heartland. - BTNEP Information
Location:
320 Audubon Ave (North Babington Hall, NSU)
Thibodaux, LA, 70310Phone:
1-800-259-0869Mon - Fri:
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Here are their links
Their Homepage
BP builds containment boxes to place over spill - wtop.com
BP builds containment boxes to place over spill - wtop.com: "The chamber will be one of the largest ever built and will be used in an attempt to contain an oil leak related to the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon explosion. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer"
Opportunities for Fishermen
More training will be offered Monday, parish officials have said. Everhardt said St. Bernard Parish fishermen interested in working to fight the oil should attend a meeting at 7:30 Monday morning in the ballroom behind the Civic Center in Chalmette
The parish has also asked interested commercial fishermen to sign up at the parish's website, www.sbpg.net, at the "Contact Us'' button at the top of the page. Also, fishers can email Everhardt at feverhardt@sbpg.net, Councilman Wayne Landry at wlandry@sbpg.net, or parish executive assistant Karen Turni Bazile at kbazile@sbpg.net
The parish has also asked interested commercial fishermen to sign up at the parish's website, www.sbpg.net, at the "Contact Us'' button at the top of the page. Also, fishers can email Everhardt at feverhardt@sbpg.net, Councilman Wayne Landry at wlandry@sbpg.net, or parish executive assistant Karen Turni Bazile at kbazile@sbpg.net
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Quote - May 1, 2010
"This event is a self-feeding fire," Environmentalist Richard Charter of the Defenders of Wildlife organization told CNN. "It is so big and expanding so fast that it's pretty much beyond human response that can be effective. ... You're looking at a long-term poisoning of the area. Ultimately, this will have a multi-decade impact."
For those of you outside the Gulf Coast who WILL be impacted by this tragedy, this has the history.
Welcome to our world.
For those of you outside the Gulf Coast who WILL be impacted by this tragedy, this has the history.
Welcome to our world.
Our birds are in good hands
People like Jay Holcomb and company
Dish soap in hand, Jay Holcomb and his team from the International Bird Rescue Research Center are ready to help our feathered friends survive the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Holcomb talks to Tonic — and shares thoughts on how you can help.
"Right now, it's quiet," Jay Holcomb says on his cell phone from the shore in Louisiana.
But is it the quiet before the storm?
"That's the million-dollar question," he says. "The oil's already starting to hit the shore. I don't know how bad and how far it's going to go."
Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico April 20, millions of gallons of oil have leaked into the sea. And while visions of the Exxon Valdez disaster, with shores full of dying, black-covered birds and marine life have rattled in everyone's heads ever since, the oil has — thankfully — stayed off-shore. Until now.
"We have one bird in already," says Holcomb. "A Northern Gannet." An elegant, white bird with black-tipped wings that has no business mucking around in mankind's black gold.

That one bird — being cared for on May 1 — may never know how lucky it was to land in the hands of the best of the best.
Holcomb, the executive director of California's International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) since 1988, was on the ground after the Exxon Valdez cracked its hull, and has overseen more than 150 oil spill relief efforts around the globe. So whether they know it or not, in times of crisis, he's our feathered friends' best friend.
"You pay attention to what the currents and the wind are doing. There's all kinds of sophisticated equipment to track this stuff. But the reality is, as much as we all had our fingers crossed this week, mother nature is tricky," Holcomb says. "We have high tides. I could say, fairly certainly, that the potential for this being massive is there."
It's why the IBRRC has joined forces with Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research of Delaware and local organizations to mobilize in advance of the potential onslaught — getting washing trailers ready in more than one spot along the coast, and accepting shipments of cases of Dawn dishwashing detergent (still the preferred oiled-bird cleanser after all these years), donated by Proctor & Gamble.
read the whole story here.
Dish soap in hand, Jay Holcomb and his team from the International Bird Rescue Research Center are ready to help our feathered friends survive the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Holcomb talks to Tonic — and shares thoughts on how you can help.
"Right now, it's quiet," Jay Holcomb says on his cell phone from the shore in Louisiana.
But is it the quiet before the storm?
"That's the million-dollar question," he says. "The oil's already starting to hit the shore. I don't know how bad and how far it's going to go."
Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico April 20, millions of gallons of oil have leaked into the sea. And while visions of the Exxon Valdez disaster, with shores full of dying, black-covered birds and marine life have rattled in everyone's heads ever since, the oil has — thankfully — stayed off-shore. Until now.
"We have one bird in already," says Holcomb. "A Northern Gannet." An elegant, white bird with black-tipped wings that has no business mucking around in mankind's black gold.

That one bird — being cared for on May 1 — may never know how lucky it was to land in the hands of the best of the best.
Holcomb, the executive director of California's International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) since 1988, was on the ground after the Exxon Valdez cracked its hull, and has overseen more than 150 oil spill relief efforts around the globe. So whether they know it or not, in times of crisis, he's our feathered friends' best friend.
"You pay attention to what the currents and the wind are doing. There's all kinds of sophisticated equipment to track this stuff. But the reality is, as much as we all had our fingers crossed this week, mother nature is tricky," Holcomb says. "We have high tides. I could say, fairly certainly, that the potential for this being massive is there."
It's why the IBRRC has joined forces with Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research of Delaware and local organizations to mobilize in advance of the potential onslaught — getting washing trailers ready in more than one spot along the coast, and accepting shipments of cases of Dawn dishwashing detergent (still the preferred oiled-bird cleanser after all these years), donated by Proctor & Gamble.
read the whole story here.
They knew....
Video shows federal officials knew quickly of potential for massive oil flow in Gulf spill
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration video, shot as officials coordinated response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, shows that federal officials almost immediately worried that the oil well could leak up to 110,000 barrels per day, or 4.6 million gallons.
In it, officials are discussing the search for survivors of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. There is a hand-drawn map of the spill dated April 22. At one point, the video freezes on a sign next to a door that reads, "War Room."
In one scene, officials say that the estimate for the leak is between 65,000 and 100,000 barrels per day. A dry erase board on the wall reads "Estim: 64,000 to 110,000 bbls/day. CNN reported 300,000/day."
Video from NOAA site shows officials knew quickly of potential for massive oil flow |
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration video, shot as officials coordinated response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, shows that federal officials almost immediately worried that the oil well could leak up to 110,000 barrels per day, or 4.6 million gallons.
In it, officials are discussing the search for survivors of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. There is a hand-drawn map of the spill dated April 22. At one point, the video freezes on a sign next to a door that reads, "War Room."
In one scene, officials say that the estimate for the leak is between 65,000 and 100,000 barrels per day. A dry erase board on the wall reads "Estim: 64,000 to 110,000 bbls/day. CNN reported 300,000/day."
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