Oil Companies Were Not Held Accountable for 10.8 Million Gallons of Oil Spilled in Gulf of Mexico
Jordan Davidson – There is no plan to help restore impacted ecosystems. And not one of the 140 responsible parties has faced a fine or even a citation.
Jordan Davidson – There is no plan to help restore impacted ecosystems. And not one of the 140 responsible parties has faced a fine or even a citation.
Elias Marat – The Deepwater Horizon spill has turned the Gulf of Mexico into an apocalyptic wasteland.
Amanda Froelich – It now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history.
Mike Ludwig – Plans are being made to further sacrifice the Gulf of Mexico for the oil and gas industry.
Alex Pietrowski – The modern models of agricultural production are suicide.
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog Waking Times In little-noticed news arising out of a recent Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas lease held by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the floodgates have opened for Gulf offshore hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). With 21.6 million acres auctioned off by the Obama Administration and 433,822 acres receiving bids, some press accounts have declared BP America …
Ben Jervey & Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog Waking Times After generations of state control, Mexico’s vast oil and gas reserves will soon open for business to the international market. In December 2013, Mexico’s Congress voted to break up the longstanding monopoly held by the state-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos — commonly called Pemex — and to open the nation’s …
Nicholas St. Fleur, Mongabay Waking Times The catastrophic explosion that spewed some five million barrels of oil deep into the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 will take a heavy toll in the ocean’s lowest layers for years to come. That’s the stark conclusion of seafloor research conducted six months after the Deepwater Horizon oil …
Lisa Garber Waking Times Years since the initial catastrophe, the fishing community is still suffering from the effects of the BP oil spill. “It’s getting worse and worse every year,” says Dean Blanchard, owner of Dean Blanchard Seafood on Grand Isle. Fishermen’s Livelihood at Risk Though many fishing seasons have reopened since 2011, many seafood docks …
Disease-ridden Fish, Eyeless Shrimp, Mutated Sea Life, and Fish Plagued with Oozing Lesions, Gashes, Parasites, Ulcers and Strange Black Stains.
Sounds like a bad science fiction film right?
However, when the ROV explored another area 11 kilometers to the south west of the spill site, the team was surprised to discover numerous coral communities covered in a brown flocculent material and showing signs of tissue damage.