The lead plaintiff was an oil services company. There are Gulf Coast residents who have lost jobs because of the moratorium, but they aren’t filing law suits. The judge who made the decision has oil investments, including Transocean, the Swiss corporations that owns the remnants of the Deepwater Horizon that lays in pieces on the bottom of the Gulf [well, those parts that aren’t washing up on our beaches].
You are right about the blogs. There are a few environmental blogs out of Apalachicola, but everything around Bay County and Panama City is rightwing Republican, and there are only a couple. St Joe Paper and Tyndall seem to provide all of the jobs, directly or indirectly. There is blank space for the center and left side of politics from Destin east to Tampa Bay.
You could be the first. Both Blogger and WordPress offer free site space. Go for it to fill the gap.
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]]>Some days it’s hard to know who to root against, though. The other night, I went Googling for blogs connected with the Panama City area. Just to see who’s around, you know? After wading through page after page of nothing but real estate agents, I retired from the field, overcome by depression.
]]>That’s why they appealed the moratorium in a Louisiana Federal Court, the judge was probably tied to the oil business.
For some people their money is all that matters, they don’t care about the future or other people.
]]>The Churchill bust was on loan to the US, and was returned. Exactly how is that construed as being anti-British? Are you saying that people who return things that have been borrowed are insulting the owners?
As long as Britain doesn’t agree to settle the matter on a football pitch, Argentina has no chance of doing anything regarding the Falklands. Obama is following the lead of his hero, Reagan, and doing nothing. What are you worrying about, this time you have two Princes who fly military helicopters, not just one?
]]>Loved that one. 🙂 In addition to their policies and procedures manual, check out the following Wall Street Journal article about Planet BP, their in-house corporate magazine (not sure whether this one will make you laugh or want to pick up weapons):
In-house corporate magazines are supposed to make the company look good, but The Wall Street Journal is asking whether Planet BP, the oil company’s organ, is smoking something:[I]n Planet BP — a BP online, in-house magazine — a “BP reporter” dispatched to Louisiana managed to paint an even rosier picture of the disaster. “There is no reason to hate BP,” one local seafood entrepreneur is quoted as saying, as the region relies on the oil industry for work.
Indeed, the April 20 spill on the Deepwater Horizon is being reinvented in Planet BP as a strike of luck.
“Much of the region’s [nonfishing boat] businesses — particularly the hotels — have been prospering because so many people have come here from BP and other oil emergency response teams,” another report says. Indeed, one tourist official in a local town makes it clear that “BP has always been a very great partner of ours here…We have always valued the business that BP sent us.”
Fortunately the articles — on which BP declined to comment — don’t go as far as praising that new treat: seasonal shrimps in (crude) oil. ]]>
Let me assure you that, most definitely, it is the corporation that is the object of the anger. I have no idea what the Tories are on about, on the Gulf we know who the enemy is, and unless BP gets nationalized, it is a corporation, not a country.
Actually, people are angrier than normal at BP because they have been running a marketing campaign for years about how “green” they were, and how much they were involved in alternative energy. That was when they dumped the shield and went with the green and yellow sunflower.
Citgo is a totally different case. Citgo is owned by Venezuela, so if they messed up, it would be the government of Venezuela. The same with Pemex and Mexico.
When your mayor started making noise, I was going to suggest that he come over and clean my beach, but then I remembered that Boris has a problem cleaning waterways, so it is just as well he doesn’t.
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