BP Oil Spill
BP Buys Science and Secrecy
BP PLC is offering money to scientists with research into the Gulf spill, in an effort to secure their support for the company in impending spill litigation. In one case, the company offered to hire the entire marine sciences department at an Alabama university, according to scientists who spurned the offer. … Robert Wiygul, an Ocean Springs lawyer who specializes in environmental law, said the contract is one-sided. “This is not an agreement to do research for BP,” he said. “This is an agreement to join BP’s legal team. You agree to communicate with BP and to take orders from their attorneys.”
Had Government Properly Prepared for an Oil Spill?
Oil Spill response is supposed to be coordinated as per the National Response System and substantively by national, regional, state, area and facility oil spill response plans. Relevant plans and explanations are found here.
Moratorium Orders and Court Opinion
Moratorium Order – Original; amended by Moratorium Order – Modified; overturned by: Court Opinion - Injunction Struck Down Moratorium
Response: Are Dispersants Really the Right Tool?
We are pouring millions of gallons of dipersants on the surface of the spill. However, most of the oil is emulsified. See what technology the National Response Team scientific panel reviewed on May 15 and ask yourself why…
Pointe Au Chien – Cut Up, Now Polluted
FROM SURGE TO OIL… AN ENDANGERED PEOPLE by Joel Waltzer and Patty Ferguson, tribal lawyers, Pointe Au Chien Indian Tribe Much of southeast Louisiana’s remaining Native Americans reside in two centuries old communities in the southern-most ends of bayous running to the coast in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes. The people of Pointe Au Chien and [...]
