"U.S. Fines BP for Misreporting Gas Production"
"The Interior Department has fined BP America $5.2 million for filing false reports related to gas production on Indian tribal lands in southwest Colorado."
Source: Green (NYT), 07/01/2010
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"Senate Panel Votes To End Oil Spill Liability Cap"
"Congress on Wednesday took major steps to rein in Big Oil's offshore drilling practices, as one Senate panel voted to lift all caps on liability in oil spills and another moved to deny offshore leases to companies with poor track records."
Source: Reuters, 07/01/2010
Deputies Blocking Media Access Literally Work For BP
News media and activists for weeks have reported how federal and local officials have barred them from reporting the Gulf oil spill story from public beaches -- even though they have a legal right to be there. Now Mother Jones' Mac McClelland quotes the Terrebonn Parish Sheriff's office saying some 40 of the deputies enforcing BP'S illegal ban are being paid to work in uniform for BP during their off-duty hours.
Source: Mother Jones, 07/01/2010
"Louisiana Governor Seals Oil-Spill Records"
Louisian Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed Republican-sponsored state legislation that would have made public all records from his office related to the BP Gulf oil spill.
Source: Green (NYT), 07/01/2010
Hired BP Muscle Still Blocking Access; ACLU Weighs In
Mother Jones' Mac McClelland reports that some of those guys wearing uniforms and harassing journalists are actually off-duty local law enforcement officers being paid for their time by BP.
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SEJ Urges Nuclear Regulatory Commission To Improve Openness
SEJ's comments included suggesting the NRC lose the "minders" that babysit agency people while they talk to reporters and asking that the NRC press operation do its job of keeping reporters and the public apprised of real news.
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TOOLBOX: Denver Post Finds Thousands of Drilling Spills in Colorado
A big fraction of the leaks and spills involved not merely oil, but produced water containing hydraulic fracturing fluid. You'll find lots of useful data on the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission website.
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TOOLBOX: Follow the Money on Gulf Oil Spill Contracts
Investigative Reporters and Editors brings news of a special Gulf Oil Spill Report put out by the Federal Procurement Data System which lists all federal contracts that the General Services Administration (GSA) knows about.
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TOOLBOX: Database May Reveal an Oil Spill Near You
Every spill report coming in to the NRC goes into a database which is, for the most part, publicly accessible. You can query the database online, or download it for use in your own computer-assisted reporting project.
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Exposure at Ontario Nuclear Plant Prompts Industry-Wide Probe
"Emerging details of accidental radiation exposure at an Ontario nuclear power plant have triggered an order to investigate the possibility of similar incidents across the country, while raising doubts about safety at Canada’s only privately owned operator."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 06/30/2010
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