Small People
June 17th, 2010
Tags: BP, Small People. Gulf, Spill
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Gasland
June 11th, 2010
The winner of the special Sundance prize for docs this year was Gasland by Josh Fox (airing on HBO June 21). It discusses a kind of drilling called hydraulic fracturing and what a bright idea that is . . . or isn’t. Get a load of this trailer for the film in which this guy is able to light up his faucet.
Sharp increases in pollution, illness and death are a big price for this gas. Seems like the same story all over. Killing ourselves chasing down the last drop of fossil.
Now, here’s the solution. The people of Samso Island in Denmark decided to chase, instead, every possible non-fossil solution to the problem. Today they produce more energy than they need and sell it at a profit. Two very close dots, very easy to connect. If only we move the greed machine out of the way.
Tags: BP, Gasland, Samso, Shale drilling
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Surf’s Up
June 8th, 2010
Tags: BP, Drill Baby Drill, Gulf, Gulf Spill, Obama, Oil
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Boothiness
June 7th, 2010
Does the fact that BP is still in charge of the rescue and clean-up of the Spill seem, at this point a bit strange? Is it a little like asking John Wilkes Booth to be Lincoln’s doctor?
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Booth, Booth Treats Lincoln., BP, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln, Spill
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Gulf Balls
June 4th, 2010
Here’s our second short for PBS’ Need to Know: “Oil Painting”, based on new revelations about the Minerals Management Agency, charged with regulating drilling enterprises, as well as collecting royalties.
It turns out the Industry AND the Agency were pretty tightly connected. So when one goes down, so does the other.
The MMS is part of the Interior Department so our little inspector is seen coming out of the White House. The “cozy” culture between Government and Oil has been going on as far back as the ’90s. It reached its fullest expression under Bush/Cheney when regs were a joke and Industry was always right. This didn’t really change under Obama.
Here our little regulator sails up to the rig, about to be seduced. It was a true romance. Gifts were exchanged; friendships of an extreme nature blossomed (or bloomed). The Culture of Oil meant that all these folks thought of themselves as part of the same group. “We’re all oil”, one of them said. Even now we are relying on BP, the criminals in the case, to save the gulf!
So finally, the royalties are paid, but by the gulf, by the animals and by the people.
Read more HERE
Directed by Gail Levin, Animation by Asterisk, Ben Shapiro, DP.
Great thanks to Tom Casciato, Shelley Lewis, Stephen Segaller, producers, NTK.
Tags: BP, Brodner, Disaster, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Spill, Need to Know, Oil, Oil Rig
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