4 results for "Dave Montgomery"
Reports of oil-covered birds in Texas called false
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 4:35 AMLand Commissioner Jerry Patterson blamed the federal bureaucracy and a "hysterical media" for what he denounced as false reports that birds drenched in sludge from the Gulf oil spill have been spotted in Texas. State and federal offici...
Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 5:38 PMIn the days after an oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got from the equipment's o...
Obama administration recruits outside experts to help BP
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 11:58 AMInterior Secretary Ken Salazar and Energy Secretary Steven Chu said they'd recruited the experts to inject what Chu called "intellectual firepower" into BP's efforts to figure out how to stanch the flow from the Deepwater Horiz...
Texas braces for 'tar ball event' from gulf oil spill
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 4:44 AMWith a broken well spewing thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico — and with no immediate relief in sight, state officials say it now seems almost inevitable that residue will begin reaching Texas waters, probably in the form ...
