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Gulf Oil Spill Update: Fishing Resumes in Pensacola, Dispersant Concerns Linger
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg announced Monday that state waters in the Pensacola region of Florida are now reopened to commercial fishing of finfish and shrimp. "I have heard first-hand from commercial fishermen and seafood processors about not only the importance of getting back to their livelihoods, but also their commitment to protecting the health of their customers and making sure consumers have the most up-to-date and accurate information available," Hamburg said in an FDA statement. Fishing Reopens, With an Asterisk The Florida announcement ...
First Family Likely Heading to Martha's Vineyard Again for Vacation
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyIn the wake of the BP oil spill, both President Obama and First Lady Michelle have made separate trips to Florida to encourage tourists to visit -- with Mrs. Obama delivering a speech Tuesday on a still pristine beach. For their own vacations, the First Family is heading to Maine this weekend and likely will return to Martha's Vineyard for an extended stay in August. The Obamas arrived Friday at Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park, with the family flying to the Bar Harbor Airport. They return to Washington on Sunday. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked at ...
Viral Video: 'Mommy Get the Oil Off!'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThis was the week that oil came to Florida's beaches. On Wednesday, Pensacola Beach was blackened with oil. Nearby Destin Beach, which had largely been spared the outward effects of BP's downed Deepwater Horizon rig, was also stung with the realization that it could no longer claim its sands were free of oil. Perhaps no single piece of video captured that turn of fortune better than the following YouTube clip, in which a little girl playing on the shore steps in the toxic, oily muck and cries, "Mommy, get the oil off!" While cleanup crews have been dispatched to Pensacola and Destin, ...
Tropical Storm Forming in Gulf Could Disrupt Oil Spill Effort
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAccording to the National Hurricane Center, there is an 80 percent chance that a low-pressure system in the southern Gulf of Mexico will form into a storm over the next 48 hours. If it does, and that storm follows a projected path northward toward the Gulf Coast of the United States, oil spill containment efforts will be thrown into disarray. On its website, NOAA said the following about the as-yet-unnamed storm: An air force reconnaissance plane is currently approaching the system to determine if a tropical depression has formed. Regardless ... upper level winds are becoming more ...
Pensacola Beach Closed Due to Oil Spill
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIt came ashore on Wednesday, and by Thursday it had caused the state of Florida to officially close Pensacola Beach. In a development that no one wanted to see, thick toxic oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon spill blackened the famous beach and sent clean-up crews into overdrive. Touring Pensacola Beach on Wednesday, Gov. Charlie Crist called the sight of the oil "disgusting." The Pensacola News Journal, meanwhile, reacted with bitterness to the fouling of the city's central tourist attraction: The sign at Pensacola Beach Properties boasted "Always has been, always will be -- the most ...
Pensacola Beach Receives 'Most Oil So Far' Overnight [PHOTOS]
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyThey knew it was coming, but they had no idea how bad it would be, until today. The residents of Pensacola Beach, Fla., awoke this morning to a shore covered with the most oil they had seen since the spill began, according to ABC "Good Morning America" weather anchor Sam Champion. Champion announced the news via his Twitter account around 10 a.m. He also uploaded photos of the oil covering the beachfront. Photos Tweets .bbpBox16850707055 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/43396750/SAM_TWITTER_abc_bg1__2_.JPG) #ffffff;padding:20px;} ...
Fla. Tourism Playground Braces for Oil Slick's Arrival
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(June 2) -- With oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill now floating less than a dozen miles from one of Florida's most popular seaside destinations, the Sunshine State is gearing up to defend its pristine beaches as well as its mammoth tourism industry. A slick has been spotted about eight miles off the coast of Escambia County in the northwest part of the state, Sandy Jennings, chief of the county's Division of Solid Waste Management, told AOL News. The county is home to tourist favorite Pensacola Beach, among other lively vacation spots. "I think the beaches will probably see some impact," ...
Pensacola Beach Residents Await 'Inevitable' Date with Oil Spill
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe oily sheen is now just seven miles from the buttermilk white beaches of Pensacola Beach, Fla., where residents are waiting for what seems a certainty. "I think what we're getting today is people who want to get here one more time before the oil comes," Tim Ristow, a kitchen manager for a local restaurant told the Pensacola News Journal. Yesterday, as the Surge Desk reported, the first traces of the oil spill showed themselves on the barrier islands of Mississippi and Alabama. Tourism is taking a beating, as is the morale of local residents. Meanwhile, it seems like each and every one ...
Deputy Uses Google Earth to Solve Crime
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 30) -- The sky isn't falling, it's watching. Google Earth, the computer program that allows Internet users to zoom in on virtually any neighborhood or street on the planet, may have solved its first crime. The whodunit involved an unmarked 1-ton, 18-foot boat that had been illegally dumped in an undeveloped subdivision 15 miles north of Pensacola, Fla. According to the Pensacola News Journal, Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Deputy Gregory Barnes got the idea to use Google Earth to scan archived images of properties in the area to see if he could locate where the boat had previously ...
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