BP Oil Spill Fix #18 – Like a Punctured Bike Tire
I don’t know what the goop is called that you fill a bike tire puncture with—you know, that green stuff that’s supposed to “fill” the hole and spread and seal to ensure that the air stops leaking out....
View ArticleBP Oil Fix #19 – Git ‘er Done!
If there’s one phrase that has popped up consistently in all the emails and reader comments I’ve sifted through for fixing the BP Oil Spill, it’s “Git ‘er done!” The implication, of course, being that...
View ArticleNew Pensacola Beach Sign: Swim at your own Risk?
If you’re on the Gulf coast and thinking of going down to the beach to get away from the heat—a heads up. An interesting piece in the Christian Science Monitor last week tells of illness reported by...
View ArticleRemember Jumanji? BP Game is Like Living it For Real
This one’s been making the rounds lately—had to share in the event you hadn’t seen it yet. I’m not sure who exactly dug it up—one report says someone at UK Metro found it—but it’s a board game from the...
View Article3 for Hall of Shame Forgot their School Lessons (1st up, BP)
There are three events going on in the world right now that are downright shameful. And while the three are not at all related, there is enough of a common denominator to illicit a cry of, “what the...
View ArticleWhat Good is BP Lifeline if it Doesn’t Rescue Victims?
Here’s the situation—really a Catch-22. You’re stranded at sea, and a seemingly kind soul passes by on a boat, with a life buoy—you know, the type lifeguards use with that long rope. The kind soul...
View ArticleUpdate: BP Oil Spill by the Numbers
A quick down and dirty look at the current numbers related to the BP Oil Spill… 11 families whose lives were forever changed as they lost loved ones aboard the Deepwater Horizon 102 days since BP oil...
View ArticleResults are in – 60% Say BP won’t Survive the Spill
We’ve had a poll here on the LawyersAndSettlements.com blog since just after the BP Oil Spill occurred. The question was a simple yes or no: Will BP Survive the Gulf Oil Disaster? Just took the poll...
View ArticleNWF Top 10 Pipeline Accident States
An interesting tidbit from the National Wildlife Federation’s (NWF) report, Assault on America: A Decade of Petroleum Company Disaster, Pollution and Profit (released July, 2010) is their chart that...
View ArticleBP Spill, San Bruno Fire, Fracking…Time to Stop Blind Faith in Gas
As I read the accounts of those living in the area affected by the San Bruno gas fire, one phrase keeps coming back to me: “I didn’t know…” While the specifics of each “I didn’t know” or “had I known”...
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