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Gulf of Mexico: “There is no life out there”

By Staff Reports | October 28, 2013

NWS employee on Gulf beach

The Gulf Oil spill is old news, right? 2010? Over and done with. The seafood industry has recovered. tourists are back, BP has kept its promises to make things right. We know that because that’s what the incessant BP commercials on television are telling us. BP seems to believe its own commercials, because it announced in June that it and the Coast Guard were ending regular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill

Inside America’s worst toxic waste cover-up

By Staff Reports | May 29, 2012

Josh and Rebecca Tickell

Film Review: The Big Fix exposes BP's efforts to minimize awareness of North America's biggest oil spill. In the weeks after the Deepwater Horizon platform exploded and oil began pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, filmmaker Josh Tickell was in touch with folks back home in Louisiana. The stories they told about the spill were very different from what he was hearing in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films, Reviews Tagged With: Deepwater Horizon, energy policy, environmental regulations, Gulf of Mexico, peak oil

Deepwater what?

By Erik Curren | April 20, 2012

peak oil chart

How soon we forget. Today marks the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But don't expect to hear much about it. The largest environmental disaster ever in American history, the BP oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and its consequences continue to reverberate in the area. But unless you're a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Big Oil, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill

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