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60-day stay not enough to settle Oklahoma water rights lawsuit, officials say Published: Sat, May 19, 2012 The 60-day stay granted in the federal water rights lawsuit filed by two Oklahoma Indian tribes is expected to be extended when the initial time frame ends next week, according to the attorney general's office. Read More
Here's hoping Oklahoma water task force is successful Published: Mon, May 14, 2012 The state and two Indian tribes have tried mediation, with little apparent success, as a way to resolve a federal lawsuit over the rights to water in southeastern Oklahoma. Might a task force loaded with heavy hitters be able to do the trick? We're going to find out. The 19-person group was convened last week by... Read More
Task force is formed to find solution to Oklahoma water dispute Published: Tue, May 8, 2012 A mediator assigned to the federal lawsuit will oversee discussions by a 19-member Oklahoma task force made up of state, tribal, business and energy leaders. Read More
Jazz Fest not just a musical feast Updated: Mon, May 9, 2011 Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys were still warming up on the Fais Do-Do Stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival when Nancy Heck started eating her breakfast — a toasted slab of fresh bread stuffed with crawfish and gooey cheese melting over the edges. A veteran Jazz Fest attendee, Heck has... Read More
Obama to shift from consoler to comic Saturday Updated: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is shifting from consoler to comic for his appearance before a mix of politicians, celebrities and journalists at Washington's premier black-tie dinner. Obama was to attend the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner Saturday night, one day after traveling... Read More
Report: Transocean contributed to Gulf disaster Updated: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Deepwater Horizon rig owner Transocean Ltd. had serious flaws in its safety management system and a poor safety culture that contributed to last year's deadly explosion that spawned the nation's worst offshore oil spill, according to a Coast Guard report released Friday. The Coast Guard... Read More
BP sues maker of blowout preventer Updated: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill on Wednesday, alleging that negligence by the manufacturer helped cause the disaster. The British company said in papers filed in federal court in New Orleans that Cameron International provided a blowout... Read More
Judge orders test on Halliburton cement in BP well Published: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge is ordering tests to be performed as soon as possible on cement Halliburton Co. used to seal the BP well that blew out catastrophically in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier said some of the components may be "deteriorating over time" and that tests... Read More
Government: Offshore drilling ban to be lifted Updated: Tue, Oct 12, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is lifting the six-month moratorium on deep water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill, officials said Tuesday. Read More
Blown-out BP well finally killed at bottom of Gulf Updated: Sun, Sep 19, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Depending on the results of an overnight pressure test, government officials were expected to announce Sunday that the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico was dead, five months after an explosion killed 11 workers, sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.... Read More
Cement flows for permanent plug of BP's Gulf well Published: Sat, Sep 18, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Crews pumped cement into BP's blown-out oil well thousands of feet below the sea bottom Saturday, working to finally seal the runaway well. Engineers initially had planned to pump in mud before the cement, but a BP spokesman said that wasn't necessary because there was no pressure building... Read More
Researchers: Thick coat of oil on Gulf sea floor Published: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Researchers say they've found patches of oil believed to be from the BP leak on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor. Some of these are two inches thick. University of Georgia researcher Samantha Joye (JOY) says she and her colleagues have found oil as much as 80 miles from the Deepwater Horizons... Read More
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface Updated: Sun, Sep 5, 2010 ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship. Engineers took 29½ hours to lift the 50-foot, 300-ton blowout preventer from a mile beneath the sea. The five-story high... Read More
BP: Failed blowout preventer removed from well Published: Fri, Sep 3, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon. A BP spokesman said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the 50-foot, 300-ton device was detached from the wellhead at 1:20 p.m CDT. The... Read More
Feds to remove temporary cap from Gulf well Published: Fri, Aug 27, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government says it will start work Monday to remove the temporary cap keeping oil from gushing out of BP's blown-out Gulf well so that it can raise a key piece of equipment from the seabed. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the spill response, says... Read More
Gulf seafood industry tries to shake an oily image Published: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Those who rely on the Gulf of Mexico's rich fishing grounds say there's a new crisis brewing — convincing skeptical consumers that the seafood they harvest and sell is safe to eat. The Gulf's fisheries are beginning to reopen more than three months after the oil began gushing from the sea... Read More
BP hedges on role of relief well in Gulf oil leak Published: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials have long insisted that a relief well was the only surefire way to kill the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, but with engineers only feet away from completing a pair of them they're now wrestling with how exactly to use them. Crews planned testing Monday evening to... Read More
Congressman: too much dispersant used in oil spill Published: Sun, Aug 1, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, congressional investigators railed the company and Coast Guard for part of the cleanup effort, saying too much toxic chemical dispersant was used. The investigators said the U.S. Coast Guard routinely approved... Read More
Debris in relief well sets back work on gusher Published: Sat, Jul 31, 2010 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical Storm Bonnie left crews working to plug the Gulf oil gusher a little memento that is expected to push their work back about a day. Crews found debris in the bottom of the relief well that ultimately will be used to plug the leak for good, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said... Read More
Incoming BP CEO: Time for 'scaleback' in cleanup Published: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — BP's incoming CEO said Friday that it's time for a "scaleback" of the massive effort to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he added that the commitment to make things right is the same as ever. Tens of thousands of people — many of them idled fishermen — have been involved in the... Read More
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