Category Archives: Wildlife
An unassuming warehouse on the banks of the Hudson River provides cover for the most absurd – not to mention irresponsible – use of BP tourism funds to date. Inside is a 1,600-square-foot artificial swamp, just like the kind you’d find down on the bayou in Louisiana (except fake) – complete with live alligators, turtles and 15-foot cypress trees draped in Spanish moss. Why, you ask? What purpose could this [...]
Read More »Scientists confirmed last month that BP’s oil continues to bubble to the surface where the infamous Deepwater Horizon rig once sat. While federal officials bury their heads, the situation in the Gulf worsens by the day. We now believe this second wave of BP oil has made landfall on Horn Island, a narrow strip of federally protected land just 12 miles off the Mississippi coast. Here’s the background. On Sept. [...]
Read More »It’s a rule we’re all taught in kindergarten: Clean up your own mess. The concept is so simple even five-year-olds get it. If you don’t clean up the mess you make, somebody else will have to – and even kindergartners (bless their stubborn little hearts) understand why that’s wrong. Sadly for those of us on the Gulf Coast, that very basic lesson didn’t gel with the folks at BP. Or [...]
Read More »New Orleans is buzzing with anticipation this morning as we prepare for tonight’s North American “red carpet” premiere of The Big Fix – the jaw-dropping exposé on the Gulf oil spill that has BP and our federal government running for cover. Co-directors of the highly anticipated film, Josh Tickell and his wife Rebecca, are returning home with a rallying cry for the Gulf Coast that will be heard all the [...]
Read More »Faith in the federal government has died on the Gulf Coast – or more accurately, it was killed. The trust between Gulf citizen and government was battered by the disastrously slow and inept federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and a stake was driven through its heart by the Obama Administration’s incessant coddling of BP during last year’s massive oil spill. By all accounts, those two critically important federal [...]
Read More »More than 16 months after BP’s Macondo Well began spewing 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, it still reeks of oil on Horn Island – a long narrow strip of undeveloped land just off the Mississippi coast. You can smell the oil, and you can see it, too. Fresh, gooey tar mats and tar balls litter the sugar-white sand beaches that were once a favorite boating [...]
Read More »Drew Landry, an out-of-work Cajun crawfisherman, caused a stir last year when he whipped out a guitar and, literally, started singing the blues during his testimony before the National Oil Spill Commission – the body established by the White House to investigate the causes and impacts of the BP spill. My guess is it was a first for all involved. But one thing’s for sure: There’s nothing like music to [...]
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