5/7/2013
Oil Spill
Gulf spill fallout not impeding growth plans, BP exec says
Houston Chronicle
The continuing uncertainty over BP's remaining liabilities from the 2010
Gulf of Mexico oil spill isn't a major influence on the individual
exploration and production projects it is choosing to do around the world,
even in the face of cost inflation for materials and services, a company
executive says.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/05/06/gulf-spill-fallout-not-impeding-growth-plans-bp-exec-says/
Residual Effect of BP Oil Spill Not Affecting Houston
KTRH
Seafood is plentiful and safe in Houston. But some neighboring fishermen
to our east are still feeling the effects of the 200-million gallons of oil
dumped into the Gulf of Mexico when the BP Deepwater Horizon rig blew.
http://www.ktrh.com/articles/houston-news-121300/residual-effect-of-bp-oil-spill-11243167/
Coastal governors call for more offshore drilling
AP
HOUSTON (AP) — Six coastal governors have called on Washington to open up
more waters to offshore drilling and to make permitting a quicker, more
efficient process.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-05-06/coastal-governors-call-for-more-offshore-drilling
State News
MDEQ fines Alcorn for landfill violations
by NEMS Daily Journal
05.07.13 - 06:03 am
CORINTH – Alcorn County supervisors will pay a $15,000 fine to the
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for violations at the
county's rubbish landfill.
http://djournal.com/view/full_story/22489548/article-MDEQ-fines-Alcorn--for-landfill-violations?instance=home_news_bullets
Lamar County adds recycling locations
Hattiesburg American
Lamar County has expanded some of its recycling dropoff locations as well
as adding three new locations.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20130506/NEWS01/130506034/Lamar-County-adds-recycling-locations
National News
Public anxious on climate, to a point
Politico
By: Darren Goode
May 7, 2013 05:06 AM EDT
Many climate change polls suggest a clear enough overall trend: Majorities
of Americans believe global warming is real and the federal government
should act.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/climate-change-global-warming-environment-90980.html?hp=l8
Dino skeleton returned to Mongolia
Washington Post
By Emily Heil
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) might have taken a lot of flak of
late forfreeing a bunch of detainees.
But in one celebrated instance, it was able to remove one particularly
ferocious creature from our shores. Nevermind that the Tyrannosaurus Bataar
that the U.S. government returned to Mongolia had been dead for some 70
million years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/t-rex-skeleton-returned-to-mongolia/2013/05/06/0b226242-b670-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_blog.html
Opinion
Tourism+Leadership=Jobs
By John McFarland — The Journal of South Mississippi Business
Three separate reports in this issue of The Journal are actually three
related pieces of a larger picture: jobs, tourism and leadership.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/05/06/4645535/tourismleadershipjobs.html
