On wide swaths of the Gulf were closed to recreational and commercial fishing for at least ten days due to the BP oil drilling disaster. Across the Gulf coast, fishermen, restaurant owners, and those who rely on coastal tourism are already experiencing major economic and emotional challenges. As tough as the initial consequences of this […]
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Check out this USA Today produced video, featuring GRN’s Cynthia Sarthou (around the 3 minute mark), on the impacts of the BP oil drilling disaster on recreational and commercial fishing and the health of the Gulf of Mexico. Raleigh Hoke is GRN’s Mississippi Organizer
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Our friends at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade have just released an interactive Oil Spill Crisis map. This great tool allows concerned citizens on the ground throughout the Gulf to quickly and easily submit short reports on what is going on in their communities. As BP’s oil drilling disaster continues to unfold, it’s more and more
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As the BP drilling disaster continues to spew oil into the Gulf, it has become pretty apparent that British Petroleum and government officials had little to no plan for dealing with a catastrophe of this magnitude. Instead, blind faith in the impossibility of a major blowout in deepwater, coupled with efforts to push for less
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Both addressed this slow-motion nightmare this weekend, with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder taking a moment from a blistering set at Jazz Fest to offer a similar thought for BP execs, “Send your sons and daughters to clean up your fu@#ing mess.”And this afternoon, President Barack Obama visited Venice Louisiana, where most of the work
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GRN’s board member, and coastal Mississippi-based environmental attorney Robert Wiygul, pointed out to us, that BP’s federally registered plan for the development of this oil field included, and required, no plan to deal with the worst-case scenerio (such as the one currently threatening the North Central Gulf’s coast and communities). An AP article inspired by
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It has been eight days since the deep Water Horizon sank into the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the GRN continued to monitor the situation on the front lines. Early this morning I went out on a boat with Captain Raymond Schmitt, activists Jo Billups and Karen Harvill, and Reuters/Greenpeace photographer Sean Gardner from New Orleans.
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Ben Raines at the Mobile Press-Register is reporting on a confidential government report which reveals new concerns that BP’s drilling disaster could become “an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.” According to the report, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are afraid that additional new leaks from the
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As we speak, GRN’s Jonathan Henderson is on the water touring the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in coastal Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The first reports of oil from the BP drilling disaster making landfall occurred near this area last night.According to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Delta NWR’s
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