Tag Archives: Gulf of Mexico
Restoring the Gulf after BP–the five year anniversary
Telley Madina, a man who knows Louisiana and the effects of BP’s disaster On Thursday 4/16, we spoke to Telley Madina on Brooklyn Culture Jam radio. Telley Madina is the Senior. Gulf Coast Policy Officer for Oxfam America. He is also the son-in-law Byron Encalade, a Louisiana oysterman from Pointe A La Hache whose story was featured […]
On Brooklyn Culture Jam Radio–the Gulf 5 years after BP
Tonight on the Brooklyn Culture Jam, I’ll be talking to Telley Madina about the state of the Gulf Of Mexico five years after the BP disaster. Mr. Madina is the Sr. Gulf Coast Policy Officer for Oxfam America is featured in the Documentary VANISHING PEARLS, about the African American fishermen in Louisiana who have not […]
Confirmation: toxic oil covers floor of Gulf of Mexico
Per a news article in Live Science from February 2nd (yesterday), there’s this news about the poisoning of the Gulf of Mexico as an ongoing legacy of the Deepwater Horizon disaster: Up to 10 million gallons (38 million liters) of crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has settled at the bottom of […]
Deepwater Horizon. Again.
Disturbing news from the Gulf of Mexico: the Coast Guard (working in conjunction with NOAA and BP) has confirmed that a large and growing sheen of surface oil has appeared over the Macondo drilling site that was the location of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. This is extremely disturbing news, because there is currently no drilling […]
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