WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed its first criminal charges related to the BP oil spill Tuesday, accusing a former company engineer of destroying records requested by prosecutors investigating the deadly 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Kurt Mix, 50, of Katy, Texas, was charged with two counts of obstruction [...]
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First Posted: March 25, 2012 - 12:12 pm Last Updated: March 25, 2012 - 12:14 pm BATON ROUGE, La. — Iberville and Ascension parishes should compensate the owners of Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours for opening a floodgate in 2009 that ruined their business, an attorney for the company told a state appellate court. The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/GUJypA) [...]
AP Reporting Posted: Sunday, 25 March 2012 7:49AM Iberville and Ascension parishes should compensate the owners of Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours for opening the bayou's floodgate in 2009 and ruining the company's business, an attorney for the firm told a state appellate court. Clay Garside, who represents Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours co-owners Frank Bonifay and Jim Ragland, made the argument [...]
By Wes Helbling Bastrop Daily Enterprise Posted Mar 23, 2012 @ 07:30 AM BASTROP, La. — The USA Speedway has fulfilled the requirements of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to restore wetlands that were disturbed during its construction. The USA Speedway is a dirt race track constructed in West Sterlington in 2009. The track came under investigation by the U.S. [...]
Iberville and Ascension parishes should compensate the owners of Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours for opening the bayou’s floodgate in 2009 and ruining the company’s business, an attorney for the firm told a state appellate court Thursday. “They (Iberville and Ascension governments) destroyed the swamp tour business. They (the company’s owners) should be compensated,’’ Clay Garside, who represents Alligator Bayou Swamp [...]
Posted: Mar 17, 2012 3:59 PM CDT Updated: Mar 17, 2012 8:28 PM CDT By Michelle Lady SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - The Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously ruled the Public Service Commission must go back and provide more details on why commissioners eased the financial terms under which the Kemper County Power Plant could be built. Attorney Robert Wiygul who represents [...]
