So, you know about BP’s past year in the Gulf Coast… And you may have heard a little something about their travails in Alaska…that whole thing about being ordered to pay $25 million in civil fines for not properly maintaining their pipelines, which resulted in two additional spills in Prudhoe Bay… Oh, but that’s not all…when your company is this focussed on ethics and safety, you know … Continue reading Now, BP’s being sued for price manipulation…
Ken Feinberg has been getting a lot of flack from people in the Gulf Coast regarding his claims process. The accusations are flying a mile a minute, some of them coming from various members of Congress, the Justice Department and the Attorneys General of Alabama and Mississippi. Apparently having had enough of this, Feinberg wrote an editorial in last Sunday’s Press Register, where he took … Continue reading The GCCF Statistics…What Ken’s editorial doesn’t report…
For over a year now, ever since the oil spilled, the Gulf Coast has suffered from a deluge of promises that have been left unfulfilled. We hear talk of making things right, of actions not words, various members of Congress and a President declare their disgust with British Petroleum but all the same, pass no bills to change the unfortunate status quo and make it any safer. Ken … Continue reading 100,000 Cheri Foytlins…
Oh yeah…nope, not kidding at all: “If you charter the ‘Searose’ for a day from Dunedin City Marina, you’re bound to catch a bouquet of fish for dinner. Captain Dan Adams, who sits at her controls, says the start to the summer has been good. “We’re right in our season,” explained Adams. But Adams’ small, fishing charter business is still hurting from last summer, when … Continue reading A check for $14.89…courtesy of the GCCF
Barack Obama finally releases the birth certificate, quelling a distraction to his campaign…and conspirators of the world begun their new narratives…it’s a fake or, if you read between the lines, it admits he worships Allah… Give it time, it’ll happen. And now, it’s Feinberg’s turn. Ken has been claiming all along the reason he can’t pay claims is because claimants aren’t providing the documentation necessary. … Continue reading Obama Releases the Certificate, Your Turn Feinberg…
Hello… Yes, I still kill people for a living. But today, let’s talk about life, and family…you might think that since I spend time ending lives I have no respect for life, but you’d be wrong…I do, I respect the hell out of a lot of people though when I don’t, well…you can guess the rest but I’m here today to echo a convo I … Continue reading For the New Orleans Assassin, it’s all about family…
From a great article by Dahr Jamail: Attorney Brian Donovan, with the Donovan Law Group in Tampa, Florida, believes Feinberg is simply doing what he is being paid by BP to do. “He’s doing his job,” Donovan says. “Feinberg is a defense attorney representing BP. To think otherwise is being foolish. As a defense attorney, he’s doing a great job for BP. But they are … Continue reading Agreed Brian, He’s BP’s Defense Attorney…
Sen. Mary Landrieu conducted a recent roundtable discussion, the purpose of which was to get to the bottom of what is going on with the claims process for small business…and something strange happened. Feinberg found a friend. And that new friend is none other than Louisiana Seafood Promotion & Marketing Board Chairman Harlon Pearce. Though Pearce criticized Feinberg for not giving fishers enough priority in … Continue reading Feinberg Finds a Friend…Harlon Pearce
Last November, I was doing some plumbing work at my apartment and things went wrong…really wrong. The long and short…I hit a sewer main and flooded my neighborhood with sewage. It was a total disaster, and because I lived adjacent to the lake, a lot of the stuff got into Lake Michigan, untreated. The city had to send in all kinds of people to clean the … Continue reading The IRS Does British Petroleum Good…
Hey, I thought this whole oil spill deal was all kinda, you know…over. At least that’s the impression I got watching all them there sparkly British Petroleum commercials, but man, over the past two days, the news has been flying pretty serious again in the Gulf, and between you, me, the courts and the water…I think this has just begun…Maybe I just got distracted by … Continue reading And so it begins: Year Two…
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