Next month is the year anniversary of BP disaster----and things are still the same---BP doing what it wants.
(This is a temporary fill-in diary for regular hostess Shanesnana ---who will be back next week.)
Gulf Watchers Diary Schedule
Monday - evening drive time
Wednesday - morning
Friday - morning
Friday Block Party - evening
Sunday - morning
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Just a few quick hits:
From the Guardian
Always looking to make something from nothing...
BP's adventure to look for oil in the Arctic with Rosneft has stumbled already. An arbitration court last week backed the objections of BP's partners in TNK-BP, who claimed their right of refusal on Russian investments was being violated. Yet BP says it hopes to proceed regardless with a share swap with Rosneft – 5% of BP for 9.5% of the Russian group. But this arrangement makes no sense: without the exploration deal, there is no reason to exchange shares in a display of mutual admiration and trust
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And, following the announcement of Feinberg's raise----
The Gulf folks aren't too happy....
When Stacey Simmons heard that Claims Administrator Ken Feinberg’s firm received a raise and is now getting paid $1.25 million a month, she was floored.
"It’s a joke. It’s a joke,” Simmons exclaimed. “How can somebody get a raise when they’re not even doing their job?”
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Oh.oh--
US magistrate judge says lawyers suing BP can see emails engineer exchanged with wife.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal magistrate judge says lead attorneys for people suing BP over last year's oil spill can view emails exchanged between a key engineer for the oil giant and his wife.
LA Times
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And, the administration didn't exactly give us transparency
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration failed to set up an "effective" communications system during last year's BP oil spill and threatened its own credibility by "severely restricting" the release of "timely, accurate information," according to a newly released report commissioned by the U.S. Coast Guard
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