Gov. Haley Barbour said he doesn’t think the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should mark the end of offshore drilling in the United States
Rumor has it Haley Barbour was considering running for President. Considering his handling of the oil spill "no big deal according to him" I doubt he could get elected dog catcher. At least not by anyone who actually cares about our environment.
Gov. Haley Barbour also insisted the STATE (meaning Jackson) should control the oil ad money not the Coastal Counties the oil spill actually affected. And guess who is starring in the ad's?
The governor and his wife, Marsha, will be on the Coast today filming two 15-second spots for a 60-second commercial. The couple will tell potential tourists throughout the South and nationally that the Mississippi Coast is open for business and for fun.
Apparently a free press isn't appreciated by Governor Barbour's staff. One can only wonder if a TOURIST had been there snapping photo's if they would have been asked to leave.
Fitzhugh and Perez went to Mary Mahoney’s restaurant on Friday to cover Gov. Haley Barbour and his wife, Marsha, taping a commercial to promote Coast tourism in the wake of the BP oil spill.
It was, in marketing parlance, an excellent opportunity for "free media" for the governor. Broadcasting the commercial being taped in the Biloxi restaurant’s courtyard would be paid for with money provided by BP, but the Sun Herald’s coverage of the making of the commercial would not cost anything while still getting out the message that the oil spill has not shut down the Coast’s tourism industry.
All was going well when Barbour’s press secretary, Dan Turner, demanded that Fitzhugh leave the courtyard so the governor would not be distracted. When Fitzhugh objected, Turner told members of the governor’s security detail to remove him. Perez remained in the courtyard.
Once outside the restaurant, and while standing on a public sidewalk, Fitzhugh started taking pictures of the building’s exterior. He was then told by a uniformed Mississippi Highway Patrol officer that he would be arrested if he took one more picture.
The bottom line is State Officials are more interested in hoodwinking tourist into coming to the Coast and spending money then they are in actually dealing with the oil spill.
Our wildlife is suffering and all these "official's care about is the loss of tourist $
The number of oiled birds and aquatic animalsis rising as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill expands.
A Twitter message Tuesday from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports 67 calls and sightings of dead or oiled aquatic animals. It says the count is 45 in Alabama, 10 in Mississippi, eight in Louisiana, three in Florida and one in Texas.
The truth is no one knows when the OIL LEAK will be stopped. No one knows how much damage the OIL and the TOXIC CHEMICALS used to clean it up will do to the environment. Sadly Mississippi officials don't seem to care.
The pelican was shaking, covered in oil, waiting to die and not alone. It was surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of its species, brown pelicans roosting on a small island in the shallows of the Gulf of Mexico amid an ecological disaster.
Many of these brown pelicans — Louisiana's state birds — are likely doomed, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal fears that his state's wetlands will soon suffer equally. Locked in a dispute with the federal government over how to protect Louisiana's labyrinth of wetlands, Jindal and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ferried a herd of national reporters to Barataria Bay on Sunday to document firsthand the devastating effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was a depressing scene. According to Jindal, approximately 65 miles of Louisiana's coast had been "oiled" by Sunday.
"We're under attack here," Jindal said. "We've got to protect our coast."
Thankfully officials in Louisianan are trying to help the wildlife, unfortunately for many it will be too little to late.