Yesterday, I took another Mississippi River Flood flyover. With me on board were Anna Hrybyk, Program Manager for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) and Robin Walker, a local photographer. Two cameras are always better than one! We embarked from Southern Seaplanes at about 8:30 AM and flew for about two and a half hours. You …
Bird’s Eye View: Oil Leaking From Waste Pits, Photos Read More »
Yesterday, I hopped in a seaplane at Southern Seaplanes in Belle Chase and flew north along the Mississippi River. On board with me on this Josephine Billups (of the band Sassafrass) sponsored flight was Matt Rota, GRN’s Science and Water Policy Director, and Randy Perez, a videographer from New Orleans who has accompanied me on …
As the pictures below will clearly show, it was a very sad day yesterday on the Louisiana coast. Myself, a coworker, Scott Eustis, and videographer, Randy Perez, were accompanied by Forrest Travirca and Cathy Norman of the Edward Wisner Donation Land Trust to an area of privately owned land adjacent to Fourchon Beach and Elmer’s …
Tomorrow marks 1-year since the tragedy of the BP drilling disaster manifested itself far out and deep under the Gulf of Mexico. Many would argue, and rightfully so, that the tragedy began to unfold years before due to lax federal oversight and BP putting corporate profits over safety, a policy that led to the tragic …
Bird’s Eye View: The Truth 1 Year Later, New Photos Read More »
As the 1 year anniversary of the BP drilling disaster approaches, we at GRN are once again getting requests from media to show them what is happening with the clean-up of the Gulf and whether there is still oil to be seen. In fact, just last Wednesday and Friday I guided several media outlets on …
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Yesterday, we spotted what appeared to be new oil in the Gulf of Mexico, but the exact source of the oil was impossible to pin-point. There seems to be a lot of unanswered questions and confusion about what is happening in the Gulf.Louisiana State Wildlife and Fisheries officials have stated that they traced oil to …
You may have heard recent reports of an oily sheen spotted by fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico. We did too, so today, along with Gavin Garrison of Project Gulf Impact, I flew out over the Gulf to take a closer look. Thanks to Jo and Lamar Billups for making this flight possible!No thanks to …
Bird’s Eye View: GRN Spots New Oil On Surface Of Gulf Read More »
Yesterday, December 2, 2010 I took another trip to the Gulf to ground truth claims made by BP. It was my third trip in less than two weeks. Once again, I was disappointed that no clean-up crews were to be found on the beaches near Bay Ronquille. I did find the usual huge mats of …
Some of you may recall from my last blog that last week we encountered a BP supervisor while on a stretch of the Louisiana coast near Bay Ronquille. You may also recall that the gentleman stated to my brother that BP would have a cleanup crew working to clean the area starting Monday. You may …
Bird’s Eye View: Quick Update From Gulf, New Photos Read More »
Yesterday’s monitoring trip took me down to an isolated area on the eastern edge of Bay Ronquille on Louisiana’s coast. Bay Ronquille is to the southeast of Barataria Bay. I went to this area after being informed by a source that there are stretches of beach near Ronquille that are “completely covered in oil “and …