"Oil is a messy business, even when it's legal," says filmmaker Joe Berlinger, and we've all seen the effects of that business splashed across front pages and television sets over the last month. But the BP disaster isn't the only mess that Big Oil has caused in the last couple of months, to say nothing of the years and decades past. The newest oil mess to be cleaned up is a Chevron spill in Utah that has flooded a Salt Lake City creek with thousands of gallons from a pipeline with what was described as a "quarter-sized hole" in it.
Antonia Juhasz is director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange, and Joe Berlinger is director and producer of Crude: The Real Price of Oil, which looks at the effects of Chevron/Texaco on people in Ecuador's Amazon rainforests and their struggle for restitution. They both join Laura for a discussion of Big Oil's ongoing destruction around the world, and what can be done about it.
If you want to do something to help, New Yorkers can attend a benefit screening of Crude with Joe Berlinger, Morgan Spurlock and others, and everyone can contribute to the Crude legal defense fund to fight Big Oil's lawyers.
Sounds to me like Chevron needs to buy the same machines that BP bought from Kevin Cosner’s company–it is supposed to clean oily water at 200 gallons per minute (1 24 hour period = 576,000 gallons of water cleaned) making the water 99% pure
By lynn manzione on June 18th, 2010 at 8:27 am
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By Antonia Juhasz & Joe Berlinger: Big Oil’s Devastation | Amauta on June 18th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
“Will these multiple disasters break our addiction to crude?”
Such disasters didn’t break our “addiction” in the past, what makes you think it will now?
Also: even to phrase our dependence on oil as an “addiction” shows how abysmal your understanding of the situation is.
We will not leave oil, but oil will certainly leave us.
World oil production maxed out in 2005. Such rates will never be achieved again. From here, it’s all down hill.
We’re in a box: it’s too harmful to continue extracting oil, and it’s too harmful not to extract oil.
By The Prophet Nabob on June 19th, 2010 at 11:50 am