Tuesday, May 25, 2010

UPDATE: Oil Action - Let's Not Kill the Arctic Too!

by greendem

If you are like me, you are feeling completely depressed and hopeless about the situation in the Gulf of Mexico. And new pictures like this are just heartbreaking. The yellow oil containment booms being easily overtopped by slime are starting to look more like police Crime Scene Tape to me. There was a crime committed against the USA and our Planet.  Big Oil and 20 years of Conservative deregulation were responsible. What can we do? I have been doing some research, and this seems like a start. By July the Obama administration needs to make a decision about whether it will allow Shell Oil to begin installing oil rigs off America's Arctic coast.

continued at Daily Kos....