Kevin Costner promotes oil spill technology before Congress
Click through to check local movie listings and buy tickets online! More>> BP oil experts used Kevin Costner’s oil/water separator last week but the device just became clogged with oil and the effort was abandoned. Read more on ABC 7 Gulfshore News
Apparently our good friends at Goldman Sachs and several other Tarp banks sold off their BP stocks before the BP oil disaster. I understand that this is only circumstantial evidence, but what makes it worth investigating is that these were the same banks that benefited from the Bail out. Smells like insider trading at the very least, and criminal foreknowledge is not off the table. Links below. www.usatrends.info rawstory.com Video Rating: 5 / 5
BP Effort Turns to Capturing Oil, No Plugging Before August
June 1 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc has given up trying to plug its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico any sooner than August, laying out a series of steps to pipe the oil to the surface and ship it ashore for refining, said Thad Allen , the U.S. government’s national commander for the incident. Read more on Bloomberg
‘Fundamental Mistake’ Made Before BP Oil Spill, Lawmakers Say
“BP’s investigator indicated that a ‘fundamental mistake’ may have been made here because this was an ‘indicator of a very large abnormality,’” the lawmakers wrote in the summary prepared for members of the panel, which will hold a hearing on the spill tomorrow. Read more on Bloomberg
BP Pressured Rig Worker to Hurry Before Disaster, Father Says
May 28 (Bloomberg) — The highest-ranking crew member to perish aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig warned his family that BP Plc was pressuring him to sacrifice safety for the sake of time and money, his father said. Read more on Bloomberg
BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast
Days before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, BP officials chose a type of casing that it knew was the riskier of two options, a BP document showed. Read more on International Herald Tribune
BP says ‘top kill’ unlikely before Tuesday in Gulf oil spill
AP Photo/Charlie RiedelShrimp boats carrying oil collection booms are documented by camera crews, right, as they anchor for the night in Gulf of Mexico off Mississippi River delta south of Venice on Thursday. ROBERT — BP now says it will… Read more on New Orleans Times-Picayune
Jury’s out on edge for lawyers who’ve battled BP before
Though lawyers all along the Gulf Coast and from environmental groups nationwide have sued BP over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Southeast Texas has a group of lawyers who’ve sued BP before, repeatedly. Read more on Houston Chronicle
BP says ‘top kill’ unlikely before Tuesday
ROBERT, La. — BP now says it will likely be at least Tuesday before engineers can shoot heavy mud into a blown-out well spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Three ultra-deepwater rigs and other equipment are at the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded April 20. They’re preparing for a delicate procedure called a “top kill” that BP hopes will stop the flow of oil from the well … Read more on WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans