In some recent promotional items for the University of Pennsylvania – Wharton’s 2011 Leadership Conference, Ken Feinberg lets us all know about the risks of leadership, and he says: “You have to define risk with each situation. When I pay a fisherman, I find a payment that ends their concern, but what is the likely risk that the Gulf is safe? Have I factored into … Continue reading Ken Feinberg defines “risk” and “leadership”…
Your Musical Interlude… Dax Riggs – I Hear Satan Last year, I was hanging out at MRB’s on St. Phillip, primarily because it was one of the few bars I could find in New Orleans that had hockey on their several televisions, but also ’cause back when I lived round town, few years back I was good friends with one of the bartenders, the … Continue reading Your Musical Interlude…Dax Riggs, MRB’s, Oysters and Feinberg…
Ken Feinberg, in an article from yesterday’s Times-Picayune, reports the pace of payments by the GCCF have improved, sped up and are finally hitting their stride. In the article by David Hammer, it is reported the average amount of final payments have increased, as has the percentage of final payments paid, also, the GCCF has processed 95% of the 300,000 claims that were filed before … Continue reading Kenneth Feinberg “says” things are picking up…well, Ken “says” a lot of things…
April 20th, 2010…remember where you were? How long did it take for you to realize there was an ongoing serious problem? How many days had to go by before it occurred the problem was tremendous, huge and that oil, it was going to keep on coming…all the way into shore…all the way into the career of Tony Hayward, splattering it with hydrocarbons and goo… I don’t know … Continue reading It’s okay everybody…Tony’s doing fine…
Well, what do you know? Turns out that Feinberg previously admitted the GCCF had received health claims, but they had all been denied due to lack of documentation. “Feinberg says that the GCCF, which was set up by BP to compensate those impacted by its disaster in the Gulf, would theoretically grant health claims related to the cleanup effort. But he said he has, “reservations about whether … Continue reading Wait…didn’t he say there were no health claims?
I know I’m cynical, I get it…I admit it, but when you spend any time reading the science and the journals and watching the documentaries about climate change, fracking, even peak oil…hope ceases to really be your specialty… It’s more two parts grim reality, one part enjoy the party while you can. Anyways, this might explain why, when it comes to the money, the between … Continue reading Economy versus environment…the oil spill fine…
A recent film, originally airing April 22nd on Discovery Planet Green, documents the impact of the oil spill on Gulf residents… “You go out in the water and think everything’s okay, but it’s not. You close your eyes and you don’t hear any seagulls, there’s no fish jumping.” “I’ve been in the bayou my whole life, and I ain’t ever seen so much dead stuff as … Continue reading Stories From the Gulf: Living with the Oil Disaster
In a great article about the GCCF, Riki Ott attacks both Feinberg’s recent declaration that he’s received no health related claims, and also how being the scientist he is, hasn’t seen any scientific evidence of the link between BP and Nalco’s chemicals and Gulf Coast sickness: “Recently Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer overseeing the $20 billion Gulf Coast Claims Facility to “make it right” for people harmed by the British … Continue reading Riki Ott, marine toxicologist, weighs in on the Feinberg lie…
Most everybody’s aware by now there were an abnormal amount of dead dolphin calves washing ashore this year, as well as a much larger than usual number of turtles dying, and there is of course the red snapper, with the NOAA recommending if fishermen catch the fish, or any other kinds of fish with lesions, fin rot or other assorted maladies they not touch them … Continue reading Dolphins, Turtles, Red Snapper…and now, sand dollars and starfish…
Kenneth Feinberg, neutral administrator of the GCCF, told a joint state House and Senate committee reviewing the claims process he hasn’t seen any scientific linkage of cleanup measures, like chemical dispersants, and health problems, “When it comes to cleanup and the respiratory claims, I think right now the medicine and science are lacking. I haven’t seen it in the claims,” Feinberg said. Sen A.G. Crowe, … Continue reading On Feinberg’s claims – regarding a lack of health claims…
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