Oil Disaster in the Gulf Coast
May 4th, 2010
An oil disaster in the Gulf Coast as an offshore British Petroleum Drilling Platforms explodes – and oil gushes into the ocean.
Host Daphne Wysham speaks to Casi Callaway, the Mobile Baykeeper in Alabama about the environmental concerns of the oil disaster. Tyson Slocum, the energy director of the group Public Citizen, joins to to review BP’s long history of ignoring safety concerns and fighting government fines. And former oil broker and industry critic Chuck Hamel gives us an insider’s view of BP’s corporate culture – including the company’s encouraging workers to falsify safety statements. Hamel is on the board of POGO – the Project on Government Oversight.
Then, readings by acclaimed indigenous poet Allison Hedge Coke. Her books “Off-Season City Pipe” and “Dog Road Woman” involve autobiographical poems drawing on Allison’s background as a Native American, a tobacco sharecropper and factory worker. She’s won the 1998 American Book Award and has been nominated for two of the prestigious American literary prizes – the Pushcart Prizes.
Music in this week’s edition of the show is St. James Infirmary by New Orleans music legend Kermit Ruffins. Our theme music is Baladi by Tony Anka, Bellydance Superstars vol. 2.
Image by Greg Palast, all rights reserved.
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