Better MS Report

The Sun Herald: Ward 4 Councilman Rusty Walker said Tuesday he’s upset with BP’s offer to the city to cover damages from 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oil gusher, as well as how the company is dealing with city officials. Walker said the company’s offer of about $77,000 works out to about $1.11 per resident for damages [...]

THE MISSISSIPPI PRESS: Shrimp landings in Mississippi are the highest since 2007′s bountiful early brown shrimp season, said Traci Floyd, director of the state Department of Marine Resources Shrimp and Crab Bureau. Floyd said 903,908 pounds of brown shrimp were landed in the two weeks after the brown shrimp season started on May 25. In [...]

THE MISSISSIPPI PRESS: Enough Mississippi River water was discharged through the Bonnet Carre Spillway to fill the Mississippi Sound to a depth of 14.5 feet, according to Scott Gordon of the state Department of Marine Resources. Gordon reported to the state Commission on Marine Resources at its Tuesday meeting that the spillway gates were closed [...]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: An internal investigation by the owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year largely blames oil giant BP for the disaster. The Transocean report released today said the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill was the result of a succession of well design, [...]

The Associated Press: Officials at the Stennis Space Center are looking at expansion plans that will take the facility far beyond its original mission. Included in the 20-year master plan are revisions to 50-year-old buildings, expansion of the marine operations and data center areas and growth of university activity. “Fifty years ago, when we first [...]

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: Hindsight is 20-20, as the saying goes, and Gov. Haley Barbour was right to be sharply critical in the delays for resumption of Gulf oil drilling that cost the region dearly. But lest the Republican governor’s partisan jabs at the Democratic presidential administration get too much applause, the conditions that [...]

The Associated Press: The massive BP oil spill might have contributed indirectly to the unusually high number of young dolphins dying in the Gulf of Mexico recently, a University of Central Florida marine researcher said Thursday. The oil, and dispersants used to clean up the spill, may have disrupted the food chain and prevented dolphin [...]

The Associated Press: BP PLC asked a federal judge Thursday to dismiss most of the court claims filed against the oil giant by businesses and individuals who say they suffered economic damage from last year’s massive Gulf oil spill. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier didn’t immediately rule after hearing arguments from attorneys for BP and [...]

The Clarion-Ledger: Gulf Coast advocates urged lawmakers Tuesday to support efforts to help the region recover from last year’s oil spill by backing legislation giving their states most of the money BP will pay in fines. “I don’t want them to dither around and not get forward momentum with the legislation because they can’t agree,” [...]

The Mississippi Press: Jackson County supervisors on Monday said they will consider joining other coastal counties and cities in an effort to receive BP PLC compensation for the lasting effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. After being approached by attorneys from Dogan & Wilkinson in Pascagoula, the board agreed to review a contract [...]