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Perhaps some of you have seen Buccaneer Petroleum’s ad campaign portraying the Gulf Coast as cleaner than a computer manufacturer’s clean room. (I saw one and found it rather cloying.)
Facing South takes a look at the reality behind the flackery. A nugget:
(According to the ad campaign) (t)he oil is gone and the seafood is safe. End of story.
Except it isn’t.
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And every storm in the Gulf brings a fresh wave of tar balls and oily gunk onto the beaches and bayous. Where do you think that’s coming from? Experts say plenty of oil is still sunk on the bottom, some of it in thick tar mats lying just offshore. It’s not clear what will happen to it.
So this brings us back to BP’s ads. Just in case anyone is out there with a sympathetic ear, a producer or reporter looking for a different version of reality to explore, here are some people who won’t be part of BP’s latest promotional onslaught. These are all people I’ve blogged about over the past year, folks who hardly any local politician, tourism official, seafood distributor or oil industry exec wants to promote. But they are there if you want to find them. And they won’t be silenced.
Get the facts. Read the rest.
