SF GATE– If you search for news and information about the oil spill on the internet, your first result will be a link to BP’s website that the tagline describes as “how BP is helping.” That’s because the company has purchased “oil spill” ad words through Google and Yahoo. “Oil spill” has been among the top searches on Google, Twitter … Read More
(Video Below) AL JAZEERA– A landmark trial is unfolding in Ecuadorian Amazon, where a group of rainforest residents is suing Texaco for $6bn in oil clean-up costs. Texaco, now part of Chevron, admits to dumping 18 billion gallons of run-off while drilling for oil in the rainforest, but the company says it did so legally and according to industry standards. Environmentalists … Read More
VOA NEWS– The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirms that some of the oil escaping from that ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is staying beneath the surface, raising new environmental concerns about the disaster. BP says there is no significant oil staying underwater. Scuba divers showed U.S. legislators video of the spill which they shot while 20 … Read More
PALM BEACH POST– A Florida beach might get hit with oil from the Deepwater Horizon accident for the first time Wednesday as sheen likely caused by the accident was reported less than 10 miles off Pensacola Beach. A charter boat captain reported the oil Tuesday afternoon and state and local environmental officials confirmed that it was about 9.5 miles offshore. … Read More
YAHOO NEWS – Perhaps you saw news footage of President Obama in Grand Isle, La., on Friday and thought things didn’t look all that bad. Well, there may have been a reason for that: The town was evidently swarmed by an army of temp workers to spruce it up for the president and the national news crews following him. Jefferson … Read More
