Digging deeper into the effects of the ongoing Gulf Oil Spill, PBS's Need to Know produced an infographic on quantifying how much crude has gushed into the ocean, showing low and high estimates. Mother Jones looks at crisis centers in St. Bernard parish, who are counseling wives of the fishermen impacted and often out of work; one worker called their trauma "BPTSD" (combining BP and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). And for Need to Know, Jon Meacham interviews oil expert Lisa Margonelli from the TEDx Oil Spill Conference about the moral choice of offshore drilling.
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From Climate Desk: Oil industry "reforms," despondent fishermen's wives and quantifying the oil spill
Tracking BP: The Climate Desk
As the fast-motion oil catastrophe unfolds in the Gulf, check out some great reporting from a new media consortium, The Climate Desk . The desk is an innovative cooperative approach to in-depth reporting into climate change and energy. Participants range across all media, including Mother Jones, The Atlantic, Wired, Slate, Grist, WNET’s news show Need to Know, and CIR. They sent a team down to the Gulf which is producing some insightful revelations, analysis and news. Here is some of the latest:
Stimulus funds aiding companies fined for pollution, accused of fraud
Indictments Allege Bribes Were Paid For Kazakstan Oil
An investigation of indictments against two key oil-industry players in connection with alleged bribery of Kazakstan authorities in the 1980s and 1990s. This CIR story by associate reporter Marlena Telvick reveals that the bribes were allegedly made on behalf of U.S. oil companies, including ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Amoco, now part of British Petroleum (BP), to Kazakstan's president and former prime minister. The three-year Justice Department investigation sheds new light on the business practices of U.S. oil companies abroad.
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