Jonathan Henderson

On yet another recent flyover, I flew out to the site where the Horizon sank and then back towards land crossing over the Chandeleur Islands. Despite what BP and the Unified Command has been claiming for the last couple of weeks, there was indeed plenty of oil to be seen. What’s more is that this […]

This past I went on another flyover to the Gulf as part of GRN’s ongoing independent monitoring and watch dogging of BP’s drilling disaster and the catastrophe of a response. In the dozens of excursions to the Gulf I’ve taken since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank, I’ve witnessed BP’s oil destroying our Gulf waters,

Today the President is expected to sign the nation’s first-ever National Ocean Policy. The GRN applauds the Obama Administration’s announcement. This policy is the culmination of a year long process that started when the President convened the Ocean Policy Task Force in June of 2009.The Task Force consisted of 24 federal agencies from across the

On Thursday and Friday of last week, I took two more flyovers to the “Source” of the BP drilling disaster and over sensitive marshland like the Delta National Wildlife Refuge (DNWR). It has been over two months since this disaster began and yet there seems to be no end in sight to this atrocity. On

Yesterday, I went on another mission into Louisiana’s Barataria Bay to document and monitor the impacts, clean-up, and containment efforts in and around Barataria Bay. Having flown above the Louisiana coast on numerous occasions and witnessed massive amounts of oil flowing into Barataria Bay, what I saw came as no surprise to me. And while

As President Obama prepares to address the nation this evening about the BP drilling disaster, some local New Orleans students at Success Preparatory Academy have a message for him. Second grade Science teacher, Amy Shipley, has been opening up the thoughts and imagination of her students to the importance and wonder of nature and the

Last I took another flyover the site of where the Horizon went down, or the “source” , as well as the Louisiana coast from South Pass to Grand Isle. I invited marine conservation biologist, Rick Steiner, on the flight with me to provide GRN with his expert analysis. Dr. Steiner has been working closely with

Yesterday, thanks to the generous support of GRN member and Gulf coast environmental activist, Jo Billups of the environmental music duo Sassafrass, I took another flight over the gulf coast to assess oil impacts and containment and clean-up efforts, if you can call it that. With me on board was Sig from Rehage entertainment, the

Regardless of what rhetoric we may hear from BP, the U.S. Coast Guard, or the Unified Command regarding the efforts being made to contain and clean-up this BP oil drilling disaster mess, clearly not enough is being done. The claims being made by those in charge that everything that can be done is being done

As many of you know, GRN has made frequent visits to areas south of Venice, Louisiana including (but by no means limited to) Trappers Cut, Delta National Wildlife Refuge, marshland bordering South Pass, and East Bay. If you’ve read our blogs and seen some of our photos, you know that we have been monitoring the