A nationwide demonstration against offshore drilling was set to reach Gulf Shores, where participants planned to gather on the public beach to oppose drilling and call for clean energy in the shadow of the Gulf oil spill.
Tag: Gulf of Mexico
Coverage of Gulf of Mexico from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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Mobile Lawyer Leads Oil Spill Claims Fight as Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe
Class action attorney Rick Kuykendall, a Mobile native, drew national notice for his work on Deepwater Horizon claims, as federal prosecutors opened a criminal investigation and BP agreed to fund the closing of Katrina Cut.
Baldwin County
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Oil Spill, Day 50: Containment Cap Pulls Thousands of Barrels a Day
Fifty days into the Gulf disaster, the cap fitted over the failed blowout preventer was recovering more than 10,000 barrels a day, but engineers were still venting oil into the sea to keep ice from clogging the pipe.
Baldwin County
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BP Engineers Race to Fit a Cap Over the Blown-Out Gulf Well
With oil still pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers worked to shear off a broken riser pipe a mile below the surface and seat a containment cap over the failed blowout preventer.
Baldwin County
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Inside the Blowout: What It Would Take to Stop the Oil a Mile Beneath the Gulf
A plain-language guide to the Deepwater Horizon spill: why the blowout preventer failed, the three plans to stop the leak, how crude behaves at sea, and how this spill compares to the worst on record.
Baldwin County
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Governor Candidate Urges Guard Tankers Be Used to Spray Dispersant on Gulf Slick; State Says No
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson called for mobilizing Alabama’s KC-135 refueling wing to drop chemical dispersant on the Gulf oil slick. A state general dismissed the idea in two words.
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Shelby Announces $4.76 Million for Mobile’s State Docks Intermodal Project
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby announced a $4.76 million federal award to the Alabama State Port Authority in Mobile for the State Docks intermodal facility, the second installment of a $20 million authorization.
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Ten Million Federal Dollars Headed to Choctaw Point and the State Docks Rail Terminal
The U.S. Department of Transportation agreed in February 2007 to release more than $10 million to the Alabama State Port Authority for the Choctaw Point Terminal and an intermodal rail facility.
Bayou La Batre
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Bob Shipp Named to Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
Dr. Robert Shipp, chairman of marine sciences at the University of South Alabama, was appointed to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, giving Alabama a seat at the table on Gulf catch rules.
Baldwin County
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A Fairhope Lawyer’s Campaign to Give Dixey Bar Its Proper Name
In March 2005, Fairhope attorney David Bagwell asked federal geographers to make Dixey Bar official, tracing its name to a clipper ship lost in a hurricane at the mouth of Mobile Bay in 1860.