BP Oil Spill Climate Babe: Diane Wilson

One can not ignore the plight of the shrimp fishermen affected by the Britisch Petroleum oil spill. The ecosystem that supports their lives has been devestated for many years to come and their own health is directly threatend by the effects of benzene in the air and food chain, a toxic and carcinogenic substance. This is where this site is honouring Diane Wilson for standing up as Tony Hayward (BP CEO) was ready to stonewall an investigative panel. One can only assume many of the 1400 offshore rigs are build with minimal safety standards to make them as economical as possible, posing a ticking timebomb in terms of our dependency and potential damage. If all oil spilled from these wells one could kill all life in our oceans. Whtere you burn it os spill it, oil will devastate our ecosystem.

As Obama said, for many years the dangers and finite nature of fossil fuels have been glaringly clear, yet it is the nature of oil, that it is money that allowed the industry to pay its way in an ever more corrupt political environment.

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