“News To Make You Furious” started in 2010 with the 20th anniversary of Exxon’s desecration of Prince William Sound and their flamboyantly negligent treatment of the Valdez spill and cleanup. But even as we were facepalming over that barbarity, something even worse was developing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Just as a warmup, the exploding BP Macondo well killed 11 people before it dumping 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf over 87 days. It became the worst accidental marine spill in the history of the oil industry. While politicians failed to learn the lessons the Valdez offered for preventing such spills, environmental remediation, or holding offending companies accountable, BP had certainly paid attention. They studied Exxon’s playbook and employed every lesson for lying, obfuscating, blame avoidance, and spin control. Now, four years later, their strategy seems to have paid off as they were awarded $41 million in new Gulf drilling leases in March. Here are a few articles describing the state of the Gulf they’ll be returning to. We can’t speak for BP, but we doubt any of these links will make BP as Furious as they made us…
Scientist Takes a Closer Look At The Deep-Sea Impacts of BP Gulf Oil Spill- Alexis Baldera, Ocean Conservancy
BP: Four Years On And No Restoration In Sight– Dahr Jamail on Truthout
Claims, Oil, and resentments linger 4 years after BP oil spill– Jemima Kelly on State Farm’s Insurance Journal
How A Gulf Settlement That BP Once Hailed Became Its Target– Campbell Robertson and John Schwartz in NY Times
How Does the BP Oil Spill Impact Wildlife and Habitat?– National Wildlife Federation
2010 Gulf Oil Spill “Not Over”, Dolphins and Turtles Dying In Record Numbers– National Geographic
The Untold Story of the BP Gulf Disaster– (Video)- Greg Palast interviewed by Thom Hartmann
Exclusive Investigation Uncovers How BP Uses Bribes To Do Business– Greg Palast interview on Real News
BP: Four Years of Dirty Tricks– Ring Of Fire Radio
Never Forget The Tragic Lessons Of BPs Oil Spill– Pensacola News Journal
BP Won’t Pay For Gulf Oil Spill Research– John Upton on Grist
Deepwater Horizon Accident And Response and Gulf of Mexico Restoration, both from the BP Website
The Gulf Oil Spill– Ocean Portal
The BP Spill– Multifaceted coverage by The Guardian
Gulf Oil Spill– Articles collected by Mother Nature Network
BP Gulf Oil Spill– Articles collected on Huffington Post
Gulf Coast Oil Disaster– Articles collected by CBS News
BP Digs In As Last Leg Of Gulf Oil Spill Trial Approaches– Collin Eaton, on FuelFix
Furious Flashback
For a soul-crushing and infuriating trip down memory lane, here are the stories we did during the BP crisis…
- BP spill ALMOST returns to the news
- The BP Armageddon Anniversary- Current Status of the Spill
- BP Gusher Stopped– (Radio Spot)
- BP learned from the Valdez. Did we?
- BP Gusher Stopped- Math Professor Version– (Radio Spot)
- The BP Spill may have stopped, but it isn’t over…
- The BP Atrocity– (Tom’s Tidbits)
