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March 1, 2021
The United States filed a complaint on Friday in the Louisiana Middle District Court seeking for the court to require Metairie Energy Company Inc., and its owner and operator, Bernard Robichaux, to pay over $1.3 million to cover clean-up costs for an August 2016 spill.
Reportedly, the oil spill occurred from the defendants’ Choctaw Bayou Oil and Gas Field which is located next to the Port Allen Lock in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The federal government paid to clean up the oil spill using funds from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which is provided for under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) and is now seeking repayment from the company under the same Act.
February 5, 2021 By Frank McCormack
The mv. Kathleen has been tripping tows through the locks between the Lower Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, La., and the bayous that connect to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) for close to 70 years.
For that entire time, the Kathleen has been part of the Businelle Towing family, now in its fifth generation of family leadership.
Their family story, and that of the Kathleen, is one firmly connected to the waterways of south Louisiana and the maritime industry that thrives there.
“I think they started building it in about 1950, and they christened it in 1952,” said John Wayne Businelle, the third-generation, semi-retired owner-operator of Businelle Towing and Pelican Ship Yard & Machine Shop, where the Kathleen was built.