by brettb on July 27, 2010
On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon exploded causing one of the worst workplace injury, environmental and economic disasters the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. has ever seen.
Gulf residents responds to the BP spill - Source: image and video from the Washington Post
In the aftermath of the spill as literally hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil poured into the Gulf not only did an entire region suffer injury and harm but a centuries old way of life was decimated.
In an excelled video produced by the Washington Post those injury victims are given a face and their story is clearly depicted.
If you care about what is happening in the Gulf, if you realize that what is taking place there is not simply impacting Gulf coast residents but all Americans, then I encourage you to watch this video and to do what you can when you can to help these people, to hold BP accountable, and to eventually bring back the Gulf.
Thank you.
Please click here to watch the video from the Washington Post.
by brettb on June 4, 2010
As the personal injury claims, wrongful death actions, lawsuits for property and financial injury not to mention environmental degradation all begin to pile up, new tapes obtained by ABC News indicate that BP new just how large this spill was but worked to suppress it.
Gulf oil spill
Keeping the tapes and videos from the public prevented a clear and independent analysis of just how much oil was coming out of the well. And BP has good reason to want to keep that information from the public – they are charged $1,000 a day per barrel.
And this, according to Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida indicates why BP initially drug their feet on releasing the tapes.
There are also reports that BP may be obstructing media coverage of the spill in an attempt at damage control.
According to the Washington Post, there have been instances in which media photographers and journalists were prevented from full access to beach sites, airspace, and waters in their attempts to cover the damage.
And more workplace injuries are being reported as clean-up crews continue to work on the oil spill. According to media reports federal regulators suspect that a cleaning fluid may the culprit that injured seven clean-up crew members last week. This would, of course, contradict statements the BP that the workers’ injuries were unrelated to the spill.
