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BP Oil Drilling Disaster: Documents Show BP Had No Plan

GRN’s board member, and coastal Mississippi-based environmental attorney Robert Wiygul, pointed out to us, that BP’s federally registered plan for the development of this oil field included, and required, no plan to deal with the worst-case scenerio (such as the one currently threatening the North Central Gulf’s coast and communities). An AP article inspired by

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Birds in the Bulls Eye

It has been eight days since the deep Water Horizon sank into the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the GRN continued to monitor the situation on the front lines. Early this morning I went out on a boat with Captain Raymond Schmitt, activists Jo Billups and Karen Harvill, and Reuters/Greenpeace photographer Sean Gardner from New Orleans.

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Government Report: BP Drilling Disaster Could Become an Unchecked Gusher

Ben Raines at the Mobile Press-Register is reporting on a confidential government report which reveals new concerns that BP’s drilling disaster could become “an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.” According to the report, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are afraid that additional new leaks from the

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