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By Scott & Tinsley Myrick, Gulf Coast Real Estate Professionals
(RE/MAX of Orange Beach)
The Associated Press • July 15, 2010 NEW ORLEANS — A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The victory — long awaited by weary residents along the coast — is the most significant milestone yet in BP's effort to control one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT after engineers gradually dialed down the amount of crude escaping through the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap. "I am very pleased that there's no oil going into the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, I'm really excited there's no oil going into the Gulf of Mexico," Wells said. The stoppage came 85 days...
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By Scott & Tinsley Myrick, Gulf Coast Real Estate Professionals
(RE/MAX of Orange Beach)
Published: Monday, June 28, 2010, 5:00 AM Lawrence F. Specker, Press-Register As Brian Philips, the president of the CMT cable music channel, picked up the phone for an interview, he was distracted by a news alert about the latest setback at the well spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. "How much more bad news from BP can people take?" he mused. "This just hit, and I sent it to Jimmy." The remark hinted at an ongoing whirlwind of communication between CMT, superstar Jimmy Buffett and other parties involved in putting on a Thursday beach concert in Gulf Shores. "It is minute-to-minute," Philips said. Philips' channel will carry a live, commercial-free, 90-minute broadcast of the event, which will star Buffett and special guests Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown. The concert is a sure blockbust...
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By Scott & Tinsley Myrick, Gulf Coast Real Estate Professionals
(RE/MAX of Orange Beach)
Published: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 5:00 AM Updated: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 9:21 AM Lawrence F. Specker, Press-Register Hundred of fans line up for tickets to the free Jimmy Buffett concert Wednesday, June 23, 2010, at Gold Mine Pawn Shop in Daphne, Ala. Tickets to the July 1 concert ran out soon after they became available at 10 a.m. Wednesday, leaving many fans frustrated. Share A daylong gusher of disappointment and upset erupted at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday on Alabama's coast, as the supply of free Jimmy Buffett tickets evaporated within minutes, if not seconds, of becoming available. Buffett, who grew up in Mobile, will star in a recently announced show July 1 on the public beach in Gulf Shores, in an event intended to promote tourism and raise local spirits amid the oil spill. Speci...
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By Scott & Tinsley Myrick, Gulf Coast Real Estate Professionals
(RE/MAX of Orange Beach)
Jimmy Buffett plans beach benefit show Updated: Sunday, 20 Jun 2010, 9:40 PM CDT Published : Sunday, 20 Jun 2010, 9:40 PM CDT Renee Dials Photographer: La-Keya Stinchcomb GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - The oil washing up on Alabama's shores have been hurting tourism and fishing. Alabama beaches could get a much needed boost thanks to an announcement from Jimmy Buffett. Buffett is planning a benefit concert in Gulf Shores next month in hopes of getting folks back on the beach. It looks like a perfect day at Gulf Shores, beautiful sand, calm waters, and plenty of sunshine. The only thing missing are the crowds of people who normally pack the public beach during summer weekends. John Johnson says right now it's the negative image, not the oil that's killing the economy in Gulf Shores and Oran...
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