New Orleans. "BP Oil Flood" Protest, Jackson Square. Protest against the great oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. "Take Back the Gulf". (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
VENICE, La. - Contracted workers from U.S. Environmental Services organize boom for deployment at the Venice, La., staging area Thursday, April 29, 2010. Staging areas have been placed in areas so quick deployment of assets and personnel could be utilized to protect environmentally sensitive areas. Photo by Marc Morrison (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: PENSACOLA, Fla. (April 30, 2010) Contract employees with BP America, Inc. load an oil containment boom onto a work boat at Naval Air Station Pensacola to assist in oil recovery efforts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater oil rig that sank April 22, causing a massive oil spill threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast. (U.S. Navy photo by Patrick Nichols/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: PENSACOLA, Fla. (April 30, 2010) Contract employees with BP America, Inc. load an oil containment boom onto a work boat at Naval Air Station Pensacola to assist in oil recovery efforts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater oil rig that sank April 22, causing a massive oil spill threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast. (U.S. Navy photo by Patrick Nichols/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command's 910th Airlift Wing at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio, drops an oil-dispersing chemical into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon Response effort. The 910th AW specializes in aerial spray and is the Department of Defense's only large-area, fixed-wing aerial spray unit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Deepwater Horizon oil spill imagined in true color on May 17 by MODIS instrument aboard NASA's TERRA satellite. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Real Coastal Warriors shared a link.
HOUSTON
— For 41 months, Halliburton mostly stood on the outside as its
partners on the ill-fated Macondo well project shelled out billions of
dollars and admitted criminal liability in the deadly rig explosion and
massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Real Coastal Warriors shared a link.
NEW
ORLEANS — Federal prosecutors defended Wednesday the legality of
obstruction of justice charges against a former BP engineer in
connection with the investigation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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BP
PLC made a veiled attempt to choke off Deepwater Horizon settlement
payments the company failed three times to enjoin in court by asking to
cut $25.5 million from the claims facility's quarterly budget, the
settlement administrator said Tuesday.
Real Coastal Warriors shared a link.
Those
impacted by the BP Oil spill now have lawsuit funding available to them
that gets those eligible the funding they need to fight their lawsuit
and pay their bills until they receive their settlement from BP.
Real Coastal Warriors shared Greenpeace USA's photo.
This
great-grandmother was one of 13 brave activists arrested at in Houston
this morning at the HQ of TransCanada Corp., the company behind the
Keystone XL pipeline. Despite being threatened with 180 days in jail or a
$1,000 fine, she did not move. She is just one of the more than 75,000
people who have signed the NoKXL Pledge of Resistance.
Real Coastal Warriors shared a link.
The
most misunderstood — and arguably the most tragic — outcome of the 2010
BP oil spill is the very serious risk to an estimated 170,000 citizens
who had some role in cleaning up the environmental disaster. A veritable
army of civilians — ...See More
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Three
years after BP’s Gulf oil spill and the damage continues. As proof that
no good deed goes unpunished, those who helped clean up after the spill
have been found to have weakened blood supplies, as well as a
heightened risk of acquiring cancer.
Real Coastal Warriors shared a link via Talking Points Memo.
George
Elmaraghy, a top watchdog at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency,
says he was forced to leave his job for running afoul of the coal
industry and Gov. John Kasich.
talkingpointsmemo.com
George
Elmaraghy, a top watchdog at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency,
says he was forced to leave his job for running afoul of the coal
industry and Gov. John Kasich.
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