Coast Guard Reports 2 DEATHS in Oil Spill Cleanup Effort
Two people involved in the Gulf oil spill cleanup effort have died, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. Fox News Meantime, tens of thousands of gallons…
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Another Setback in the Gulf, Oil Spewing from Uncapped Well
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Engineers had to completely uncap the broken oil well spewing into the Gulf of Mexico…
ACTIVIST POST INTERVIEW: Getting Dirty in Louisiana with Gulf Activists — Dirty Cajuns
We conducted an e-mail interview on June 22 with Mike Baldwin who details the latest from his area of the Gulf. For more information about…
Gulf oil spill: A Hole in the World
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report…
Song/Poem Submitted by Activist Post Reader, Douglas Wright
Note: Thank you for the contribution! “Tar and Feathers” Eleven died when the well blew Off the coast of Louisiana they were pumping black crude…
Gulf Oil Full of Methane, Adding New Concerns
By MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI AP – NEW ORLEANS — It is an overlooked danger in the oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well…
BP Tells Cleanup Workers They’ll Be Fired if They Wear Respirators
Washington’s Blog As I noted on May 19th, BP has been telling cleanup workers that they don’t need to wear respirators or other protective gear….
Crude Sucking Barges STOPPED By Coast Guard
By DAVID MUIR and BRADLEY BLACKBURN – ABC News Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of…
BP Aware of Cracks in Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion
Paul Joseph Watson – Prison Planet BP was aware of cracks appearing in the Macondo well as far back as February, right around the time…
Experts Say the Oil Gusher is ‘Unstoppable’
Julia Whitty – Mother Jones Sharon Astyk at ScienceBlogs points the way to a seriously scary comment thread at The Oil Drum, a sounding board…
Is Homeland Security Expecting a Major Terror Attack?
Eric Blair – Activist Post Why all the terrorist training drills? Is a large-scale terrorist attack imminent? There are so many terrorist drills lately with many…
Ron Paul on Gulf Oil Disaster and Gold – VIDEO
Congressman Ron Paul on CNBC June 15th 2010 discussing the Gulf oil spill blame game and investing in gold.
BP Hires Private Security Contractors to Guard ‘black water’
The Raw Story If they had hired Blackwater, the firm would have had a particularly appropriate sounding name for the job: guarding tar-stained beaches. In…
Obama: Gulf spill ‘Echoes 9-11’
Editor’s Note: Also echoes Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste…What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things…