GULF COAST–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2010. PAST 24 HOURS Admiral Allen Provides Operational Update for Unified Area Command National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen today provided a briefing to inform the American public and answer questions on the progress of the administration-wide response to the BP oil spill at the Theodore Staging[Read More…]

THEODORE, Ala.–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2010 –  Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander for the Deepwater BP Oil Spill Response, briefed the media Saturday morning at the Theodore staging area. 9:45 a.m. CT OPERATOR:   Good morning everybody.  We’re here at the Theodore, Alabama, staging area to give you the[Read More…]

Grand Isle, Louisiana–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2010. I’m speaking to you from Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana, one of the first places to feel the devastation wrought by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  While I was here, at Camerdelle’s Live Bait shop, I met with a group of[Read More…]

New Orleans, LA–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2010 – 2:29 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT:  Well, I want to thank everybody who participated in this meeting.  Most of the folks here were in the meeting that we had last week.  One of the encouraging signs is that, at least with respect to Louisiana, it[Read More…]

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—June 4, 2010. A new national Volunteer Response Center is gearing up to channel the energies of a growing force of volunteers seeking to help birds, wildlife and habitat to weather the assault of the Gulf oil spill.  The National Audubon Society will use the facility in Moss Point,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2010.  As Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator David Vitter and others call on President Obama to end the three-week old off-shore drilling moratorium, they are using local concerns about jobs in an effort to push for more drilling in the devastated region.  The Gulf, like all of[Read More…]

Venice, Louisiana–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2010.  Today, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune toured coastal Louisiana to view the impacts of the BP Disaster. Following the boat tour, Brune called on President Obama to launch a plan to move America completely beyond its dependence on oil in the next twenty years. The[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 4, 2010.  The Interagency Alternative Technology Assessment Program workgroup, newly established by the National Incident Commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, announced here Friday a new effort to collect and review oil spill response solutions from scientists and vendors. The Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center, in[Read More…]

METAIRIE, La.–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2010.  Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, National Incident Commander for the Deepwater BP oil spill response, briefed national and international media today on developments in the ongoing response. The briefing took place at 9:15 a.m. at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans. U.S. COAST GUARD ADMIRAL THAD ALLEN:[Read More…]

GULF COAST–(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2010.  BP today provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico. This follows an announcement on May 29 to move to the next step in the subsea operations. Subsea Source Control and Containment Preparations are ongoing[Read More…]