Hilcorp is one of the largest, privately held exploration and production companies in the USA. Really?

Hillcorp (click here)

How can the largest exploration and production company in the petroleum business be this incredibly negligent? The petroleum industry just doesn't care. They have so much money they rather let infrastructure deteriorate into failure and pay the fines and damages because it is cheaper than prevent health emergencies.

I think US EPA needs to look into the company's record of safety and protecting the public to prevent anymore, "Oops."

August 9, 2022
By Bria Gremillion

The Coast Guard responded to an oil spill on Monday, Aug. 8 in Terrebonne Bay, La.

New Orleans - The Louisiana Department of Health (click here) is warning residents participating in recreational activities in Terrebonne Bay, Louisiana and the Lake Pelto area to be cautious after around 14,000 gallons of oil spilled from a Hilcorp facility Monday, Aug. 8.

Officials say an oil tank platform “experienced structural failure,” which caused a tank to fall into the water and spill the oil at the Hilcorp Caillou Island facility. Hilcorp estimates around 14,000 gallons of crude oil went into the water.

An organization has been hired to remove the oil.

A claims line for people affected by the spill has been set up at 281-486-5511.

The cause of the incident is still under investigation.

On Wednesday, Aug. 10, the Louisiana Department of Health issued a public health notice due to the oil spill.

State health officials say people engaging in recreational activities in the Terrebonne Bay and Lake Pelto area need to be aware of the oil spill and take the following precautions:...

Devastating flooding in Death Valley stranded visitors and staff.

August 10, 2022

By Sarah Juta

The 3.4 million-acre park, (click here) located near the California-Nevada state line, saw 1.46 inches of rain near the Furnace Creek area in three hours—about 75 percent of what that region typically gets in an entire year, according to Jacques Billeaud and Michael R. Blood of the Associated Press (AP). The rainfall set a new record for the month of August, and it nearly broke the park’s record for the most rain in a single day—1.47 inches—which occurred on April 15, 1988, report Alex Wigglesworth and Harriet Ryan for the Los Angeles Times....

 

Steven Seagal needs to have his USA Visa revoked forever.

August 9, 2022
By Sarah Sicard

Steven Seagal (left) (click here) has praised President Putin's policies

Early reports (click here) from the Russian invasion of Ukraine suggested that President Vladimir Putin’s military had deployed, of all people, actor Steven Seagal alongside its troops. And while the outlandish information released at the time turned out to be false, a Russian outlet did publish a video Tuesday that showed the former action star standing among the wreckage of eastern Ukraine’s Olenivka prison, where a recent attack left dozens of Ukrainian POWs dead.

Russia and Ukraine are each casting blame for the prison’s destruction, meanwhile, with Moscow alleging that Ukrainian forces used U.S.-made ordnance—a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS—to bring the building down, according to the Washington Post....

Steven Seagal is the iconic strongman for Putin's image as a politician. Now, he is running propaganda campaigns for Putin. Seagal would appear with Putin in Crimea to strengthen the bond so to speak.

He really needs sanctions leveled against him. He isn't an American anymore. The place he had pictures taken was stated as a prison of Ukrainian soldiers (click here).

It is absolutely astounding to realize an esteemed actor would side with the genocide against Ukraine.

March 24, 2014

By Luchina Fisher 

Steven Seagal has expressed his support (click here) for Russian President Vladimir Putin over his actions in Crimea.

The action movie star called Putin "one of the great living world leaders" in a lengthy interview with Russia's state-run newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta from the set of a film he is shooting in Romania.

In comments first noted by The Moscow Times, the country's leading English-language newspaper, Seagal said Putin's "desire to protect the Russian-speaking people of Crimea, his assets, and the Russian Black Sea military base in Sevastopol … is very reasonable."

The 61-year-old actor and well-known Republican also criticized U.S. policy on Ukraine as "idiotic" and said the media's coverage of the crisis favored President Obama's agenda.

Seagal added in the interview that he "would like to consider [Putin] as a brother."...

The truth be known the only reason Russia was able to remove Crimea from Ukraine is because there was no national military of Ukraine at that time. Yanukovych substituted oligarch militias to act against the people while disarming the Ukraine national military. When the Maiden occurred the national military had uniforms, but, no guns at all. So, the entire mess with Crimea was due to Putin's populous hero, Steven Seagal.

August 9, 2022
By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

As images of large explosions in Russian-occupied Crimea (click here) flashed across social media, the Russian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday claimed they were the result of "several aviation munitions destroyed" at the Russian Navy's Saki Air Base near the village of Novofedorivka.

The incident occured about 3:20 p.m. local time, according to an official Ministry of Defense (MOD) statement.

"As a result of the explosion, no one was injured. Aviation equipment at the airfield was not damaged," according to the MOD's statement. "Measures are being taken to extinguish the fire and find out the causes of the explosion. According to a report from the site, there was no fire impact on the bunded ammunition storage area at the airfield"

Is the GOP worried about an FBI search themselves?

I. strongly suggest the GOP clean up their act.

A legally obtained search warrant carried out by highly qualified, constitutional FBI agents and non-partisan DOJ should be everyone’s concern, but, not of the search, only of Trump.