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Shrimp and oil are still king at this Louisiana festival
The unique event has gone on for 75 years. Organizers weren’t going to be stopped by an oil spill, even one that hurt the seafood industry. ‘We’re going to overcome this,’ says the festival king. After the BP oil spill, the organizers of one of America’s more unusual civic celebrations began fielding the phone calls, the ones that invariably asked: Are you really going to have it this year?
Oil drilling agency adopts conflict-of-interest policy
Scandalized by federal regulators who had sex with oil company executives and negotiated with them for jobs, the agency that oversees offshore drilling is imposing its first ethics policy, which bars inspectors from dealing with a company that employs a family member or personal friend. Offshore drilling – Business – Energy – Conflict of interest – Employment
BP Spill: WH says Oil Has Gone, but Gulf’s Fishermen are Not So Sure
by Suzanne Goldenberg High tide, and the remains of a late summer storm, and it is hard to tell on this strip of land between the Mississippi and the marsh where land ends and water begins. It was here – in the most southerly reaches of Louisiana on terrain that is slowly sliding into the sea – that oil from BP’s Macondo well first started coming ashore, about a week after the 20 April explosion …
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