The Latest: Expert: Gulf leak can't be compared to BP spill
A retired Army general best known for helping restore order in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is one of the environmental advocates in the audience at a meeting about a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore (AHN'-ur-ay), who founded a coalition of environmental groups called "GreenARMY," said during a break in Wednesday's meeting that he wants to see more transparency from the company responsible.
Honore said he would like to see live video from the site where an underwater mudslide during Hurricane Ivan in 2004 toppled a platform owned by Taylor Energy Company and buried a cluster of wells under mounds of sediment.
Taylor Energy Company President William Pecue also told a gathering of industry experts and environmental advocates on Wednesday that the company cares "very deeply" about the environment.
Wednesday's forum in Baton Rouge is a requirement of a court settlement that Taylor Energy reached in September with environmental groups, which accused the company of withholding information about the leak.