Posted by jamie — 28 July 2010 at 1:35pm
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Fishermen scoop oily sludge from the oil spill in Dalian, China (c) Arthur JD/Greenpeace
Arthur JD writes from Dalian in China...
I arrived in Dalian on the day of the funeral for firefighter Zhang Liang, who drowned beneath the thick crude when his crew jumped into the ocean - without safety gear - to attempt, in vain, to fix an underwater pipe. Our lead photographer, Jiang He, who by now has reached legendary status globally for capturing the final seconds of Zhang's life, continued to cover the very emotional moments of this oil spill disaster.
Posted by jossc — 21 July 2010 at 11:34am
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Greenpeace USA's Mike Gaworecki reports from the Arctic Sunrise as it makes its way to the Gulf to conduct a three-month expedition documenting the true impacts of the BP Deepwater Disaster on the region's marine life and unique ecosystems.
Since the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig exploded and sank in April, BP has devoted inadequate resources to the oil spill response, withheld information from the American public, and denied access to spill sites to journalists.
So our ship the Arctic Sunrise is heading to the Gulf to do an independent assessment of the impacts. We believe it’s way past time the full, unabridged truth about the extent and nature of this oil catastrophe was told to America and the world.
Posted by jossc — 21 July 2010 at 11:02am
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As efforts to contain the oil spill continue, a new slideshow from our US colleagues details the ongoing consequences of the massive slick from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
And you can see the complete Gulf Oil Spill photoset on Flickr as well.
Posted by jossc — 19 July 2010 at 1:41pm
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Greenpeace USA's Joao Talocchi writes from the Gulf of Mexico, where our ground team has been documenting the impacts of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Today we visited one of the Bird Rehabilitation Centers in Louisiana. We saw dozens of birds, from different species, cleaned of oil with detergent, water and toothbrushes and tagged. They are monitored and then released to the wild. The center has treated and release more then 500 birds so far, a small number if you take into account that more then 550 miles (885Km) of shoreline has been impacted by the Deep Water Horizon disaster.
Posted by jamie — 14 July 2010 at 2:54pm
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Our colleagues in the US have been blogging regularly about the ongoing disaster in the gulf and Greenpeace's involvement in the response to the oil spill. Here, Mike Gaworecki sheds some light on the clean-up operation BP has been carrying out on its image.
There's no way to clean up an oil spill. We've seen this time and again - in Alaska's Prince William Sound, for instance, where oil from the Exxon Valdez spill is still having an impact on local ecosystems. Corporations like Exxon or BP that find themselves responsible for an oil spill - or, as was the case for Exxon and now is the case for BP, an oil disaster - are really left with only one option to handle the problem: public relations, damage control and fierce lobbying.
Posted by jossc — 30 June 2010 at 4:45pm
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Check out the Rebrand BP competition entries on Flickr
What lies behind BP's very public sponsorship of the arts, I wonder? Is it a selfless desire to spread a little cultural enlightenment down into the ranks of the great British public? Or could it be simply a cynical mechanism to distract attention from the company's terrible record on environment, climate change, and human rights issues?
John Hocevar, team leader of the oceans campaign at Greenpeace USA, is currently in Louisiana helping with Greenpeace's response to the BP oil spill. Here's his latest report from the centre of the ever-growing disaster.
Greetings from Grand Isle, Louisiana, one of the growing number of
places unlucky enough to win a "heavily oiled" classification on the
government maps tracking the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Despite
BP's efforts to keep it under wraps, we're here to document the impacts
of the spill. The public has a
right - and a responsibility - to know the true cost of our
continued reliance on offshore oil, and fossil fuels in general.
Climbers have scaled BP's London HQ and are
currently hoisting a large oil-soaked version of the company's bright green logo
above the entrance. Chief Executive Tony Hayward is expected to arrive
imminently to chair a board meeting which will focus on the oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
The Greenpeace volunteers arrived at 0530
before climbing onto a small metal balcony above the front door. They then
attached a specially designed giant flag to the company's flagpole bearing the
words "British Polluters" alongside the altered BP logo.