BP Oil Gusher

(AmnestyUSA) – Chevron (CVX) in the Amazon – Oil Rights or Human Rights? Texaco’s legacy, Chevron’s responsibility

“Our health has been damaged seriously by the contamination caused by Texaco. Many people in our community now have red stains on their skin and others have been vomiting and fainting. Some little children have died because their parents did not know they should not drink the river water.” Read More Here

(NYDaily) – Future looks bleak for Gulf: Alaska STILL hasn’t recovered from Exxon Valdez disaster 21 years later

“There it is. That’s oil coming out. I can smell the hydrocarbons,” he said as gumball-sized tar balls bubbled up. “It’s just poison soup is what that really amounts to.”
Kopchak, a fisherman for 36 years, wasn’t standing on a contaminated beach in Louisiana or Florida. Read More Here

(MSNBC) – Video: Gulf Reporter Scott Walker Reports Oil Disaster Cleanup Workers Intimidated – Video Link Here

(BeforeItsNews) – Oil blowout fumes sickening people in Atlanta–geologists says: “Where are the logs?” – Read More Here

(RawStory) – Republican candidate: Obama, BP ‘colluded’ to make oil spill happen

Bill Randall, a North Carolina Republican candidate for Congress, is calling for a “thorough investigation” into whether President Barack Obama’s administration colluded with BP to allow the Gulf oil spill.
“There were procedures that were violated by BP that the federal government signed off on, safeguards that decades of engineering wherewithal and knowledge told them that this way the way to do it,” Randall told reporters earlier this week. “They intentionally bypassed that and the safety was compromised.” Read More Here

(PaulWatson) – States Need To Launch Criminal Investigation Into BP, Federal Government’s Role In Oil Spill

There can now be no doubt whatsoever that the BP oil spill was purposefully contrived, either through deliberate negligence or outright sabotage, and is now being used to further the Obama administration’s political agenda. Read More Here

(Guardian) – Gulf oil spill: A Hole in the World – Naomi Klein

The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism. Read More Here

(AP) – Video: Gulf Fisherman: “It’s Heartbreaking”

Dwayne Price, a charter boat fisherman, gave the AP’s Bonny Ghosh a tour of oil-soaked Barataria Bay in Louisiana. Price decried the impact of the oil spill on the areas wildlife and pleaded for more help cleaning it up. – June 19, 2010