Written by: Allison Braxton New Orleans, LA -- It's been more than two years since the B.P. Oil Spill. The frustration among Louisiana's commercial fishermen is mounting. Today, The Gulf Organized Fisheries in Solidarity and Hope or "GO FISH" coalition organized a community conference to find out what's next in the B.P. Oil Spill settlement process. GO FISH addressed [...]
Published by Rhonda Miller on 02 May 2012 07:23pm A federal judge in New Orleans granted preliminary approval Wednesday to a proposed settlement of $7.8 billion in BP oil spill claims. MPB’s Rhonda Miller reports the decision affects thousands of Mississippi residents and businesses. Standing on the porch of his Ocean Springs home, fisherman Anthony Pizzi says he has not [...]
By JACK ELLIOTT JR. JACKSON, Miss. The Sierra Club of Mississippi is arguing in court that Mississippi Power Co. should assume the risk of building a new coal power plant, rather than customers, while an appeal trying to stop the project goes through the courts. "If Mississippi Power thinks it is such a good idea to build this boondoggle, the [...]
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 [...]
