By Kevin Gosztola Flickr Photo by dsb nola One hundred days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded creating the worst environmental disaster in the world’s history, those who live down along…
Category: Environment
The Capitalist Oil Catastrophe Is NOT Over – People Must Act to Stop It
By Larry Everest The banner headline in the July 16 New Orleans Times-Picayune blared in big bold letters, "OIL FLOW HALTED." The day before, British Petroleum (BP) had, for the first time…
Protest Friday July 30 – 100 Days of Gulf Oil Disaster
GULF OIL DISASTER Watch, share, spread the word – get in the streets: 100 Days of Outrage! Demands 100 Actions! ….Cities, Towns, Communities… Globally – because the environment has no borders! Because the…
Emergency Committee: The Well May – Or May Not – Be Capped… But the Oil Catastrophe Continues!
Issued by the Emergency Committee to Stop Gulf Oil Disaster Press Contact: 504.644.7214 Interviews available www.stopgulfoildisaster.org stopgulfoildisaster@gmail.com ATTN: News Desk PRESS STATEMENT: THE WELL MAY – OR MAY NOT – BE CAPPED…BUT…
Scientists issue statement condemning use of dispersants in the Gulf
"We oppose the use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf, and urgently recommend an immediate halt to their application. We believe that Corexit dispersants, in combination with crude oil, pose grave health…
BP buys up Gulf scientists for legal defense, roiling academic community
By Ben Raines, Press-Register For the last few weeks, BP has been offering signing bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from public universities around the Gulf Coast to aid its defense…
“Hey Tony – You Need to Go to Jail”
By Dennis Bernstein Texas Shrimper Diane Wilson Arrested Protesting BP On June 17, after watching BP’s oil blowout pollute the Gulf of Mexico for nearly two months, environmental campaigner and fourth-generation…
Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Beg For a Chance To Take Basic Measurements
By Dan Froomkin A group of independent scientists, frustrated and dumbfounded by the continued lack of the most basic data about the 77-day-old BP oil disaster, has put together a crash project…