two years later, still no prosecution on the BP oil spill
this weekend’s International Herald reports that two years after the Deep Water Horizon disaster, no one has been held criminally responsible, although BP will ultimately shell out $30 billion for clean-up, restitution, and other costs. “none of the upper-tier executives who managed BP [and gambled with the lives of BP contracctors and the ecosystem of …Read More
god save the ridley
this summer my 15 year old son Zach and I went to the Gulf of Mexico to do a story about the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which was already critically endangered before the oil spill, and now its future is even more parlous. Here’s an excerpt of the Dispatch, which will be up shortly (soon …Read More
does anybody care about the ridleys ?
Direct measurement by sonar of the flow of the leaking well in the Gulf by the U.S. Geological Survey has found that it is twice as much as the 5000 barrels per day that BP has been putting out, after initially saying it was no more than 1000 and consistently trying to minimize it as …Read More