From American Zombie… This Friday, 2pm @ the CAC….please attend the press conference for the documentary film, The Big Fix. More info at the Krewe of Truth. This film is extremely important as it’s the best chance the Gulf Coast has of exposing the truth of what’s actually happened in the wake of the BP oil spill. I will be at the presser shooting it…I … Continue reading The Big Fix…
Have you seen the commercials British Petroleum will still occasionally run that purports their efforts to be environmentally friendly? Yep, they were/are a friend to the environment, ready to invest all that money in alternative energy, ready to go Beyond Petroleum They even had a tag-line, “BP: It’s a start.” Yeah…but it was of course (as are all things BP) about money: “Investors choose whose … Continue reading BP and VoO: Working for free to protect the environment – it’s a start…
…the parking lot empty at DoRan Seafood? One of the largest employers of Independence, Louisiana, the DoRan seafood processing plant is mostly shut down, “Usually in October, this time of year we usually run about 10 to 12 hours a day, five days a week, with about 40 to 50 employees,” said the owner, Randy Pearce, “As of the end of September, we’re looking at … Continue reading If everything’s so good, why then is…
How about a conversation with Ken? The man, the legend? Mr. Ken Feinberg? He first came to you as the special master of the 9-11 Victim Compensation fund, and even though he experienced mixed reviews, he went on to wow you with his follow-up as special master for the TARP Executive Compensation Review. Yes-sir, we called him “Pay Czar” back in them days. Well hold onto your … Continue reading So, what are you doing November 14th?
A scientist at the University of New Orleans says people with direct contact to the oil spill are having serious health problems which could be felt for decades to come. Apparently, as goes marine life, so goes human beings in contact with the heavy metals and PAH’s associated with the oil. Dr. Patricia Williams, a UNO scientist with the Pontchartrain Institute of Environmental Sciences, reports, … Continue reading Oil spill may be causing infertility problems…
Feinberg has maintained that periodically he will be taking a look at the GCCF, it’s claims structures and the state of the Gulf to determine whether any modification to payments is necessary. It is this reappraisal which led to the changes last August where businesses had to show a growth rate of five percent to qualify for continued payment of interim claims. This is also … Continue reading Ken Feinberg’s next modification…
Nalco, the makers of Corexit disperant, are on the line for what could be hundreds of thousands of personal injury claims with the company’s request for immunity being quashed yesterday in a ruling by US District Court Judge Carl Barbier. The chemical company, whose product British Petroleum execs once called safe as dish soap had requested immunity from any lawsuit because they claimed to be … Continue reading Nalco…not just following orders…
Oil sheen… Lots of oil sheen and lots of testing of oil from those sheens… And weeks later, the people of the Gulf Coast are no closer to determining just what the hell is happening down at the Macondo Well site, if anything… And British Petroleum, the Coast Guard and the NOAA seem to be in no real hurry to find out either, and that’s … Continue reading What is BP hiding now, and why is the Coast Guard and NOAA helping?
A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal reports the killifish, a small but abundant species found in Louisiana’s marshes was hurt severely by the spill and now is turning up deformed and may be unable to reproduce properly. The scientists say the damages to the small fish are effecting the gills, intestines and cardiovascular organs, “They … Continue reading Gulf’ll be fine by 2013, right Ken? Not according to…
Ken Feinberg, British Petroleum employee and steward of the BP claims fund wrote himself a little editorial the other day in Bloomberg Businessweek titled: How to Give Away $5 Billion. The article came complete with an illustration of a man, presumably Ken, holding a money bag while outstretched, demanding hands come in from outside the border of the drawing and there, in a nutshell, is everything that’s wrong … Continue reading Feinberg ain’t no Santa Claus…
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