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Gulf Oil Disaster Archive
British Petroleum’s Hands
Posted on May 3, 2010 | 4 CommentsWhen I was a young boy growing up in Wharton County, my family would once a year drive to Matagorda Bay and buy shrimp off the boats. We’d take them...
Nobody Knows the Trouble We’ll See
Posted on May 4, 2010 | 3 CommentsWe might be powerless. The oil flowing out from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico may be under such great pressure that we do not possess technology to stop...
Bars for BP
Posted on May 4, 2010 | No CommentsAs oil continues to gush out of the wellhead more than five thousand feet below the location where the Deepwater Horizon floating drilling platform exploded April 20th, the nation is...
The Oil Spill and Political Paralysis
Posted on May 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe debate surrounding the tragic British Petroleum Gulf rig explosion and economy-wrecking oil spill has already spun off into an ideological wrestling match that’s got nothing to do with protecting...
Stubborn as a Mule
Posted on June 5, 2010 | 1 CommentBill Maher’s piece on the stubborn idiots who continue to deny dangerous climate change brought to mind this clip from The Family Guy. That it’s Texas that inspires the “stubborn...
Hey Great Britain, It’s About Lives, Not Politics
Posted on June 11, 2010 | 1 CommentSo, a British company all but destroys the U.S. Gulf Coast, threatening the lives and livelihoods of many and killing ocean wildlife, and the Brits are worried about their dividends?...
A Requiem for the Gulf
Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir They were fragile and appeared insignificant against the...
Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61
Posted on June 14, 2010 | 5 CommentsI was 18, skinny, out of money and in New Orleans for the first time after some Appalachian adventures and a visit to Nixon’s D.C. I faked a cocky walk...