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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill:
Worst Spill in U.S. History

Many of the Gulf Coast communities are environmental justice communities, overburdened by sickness and poverty, and located in areas where polluting industries operate with impunity even though their emissions, leaks and spills have a disproportionate impact on already disadvantaged families, fishing communities and Indigenous Peoples.

Articles chronicaling the impacts of the Deep Water Horizon's Explosion and 100+ Days of Oil gushing into the Gulf and onto the shores of Indigenous Communities along the coast and into the bayous of Louisianna. List from newest to oldest.

And although BP has the worst safety and environmental record of any oil company operating in the U.S., the oil titan made $14 billion in profits in 2009 alone.

• Native people fight to survive Gulf oil spill: August 7, 2010 - Seattle Times
• Gulf oil spill threatens survival of an isolated village: August 3, 2010 - Los Angeles Times
• Indigenous Tribes Suffer Disproportionately From BP Oil Spill: July 12, 2010 - Uprising Radio
• Winona LaDuke Pledges Help for Native Tribes Drowning in BP Oil: July 9, 2010 - OpEdNews
• Gulf Coast oil spill will impact First Nations: July 9, 2010 - Wawatay News
• Coastal First Nations Tour The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill: July 7, 2010 -  HQ Prince George
• B.C. First Nations return from Gulf oil spill: July 6, 2010 -  BC Local News
• Ecuador oil leak victims tour Louisiana marshes affected by BP spill: June 29, 2010 - Reuters
• Gulf Coast American Indian Tribe Hosts Ecuadorean Leaders Devastated By Chevron Oil Contamination: June 26, 2010 - Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources
• Cultural Extinction: Fear of No Recovery in the Gulf: June 23, 2010 - The Indypendent
• Obama mentions tribes as part of oil spill restoration; chief testifies on mess: June 18, 2010 - Indian Country Today
• Oil Imperils Native American Town, And Way Of Life: June 17, 2010 - National Public Radio
• Council turns down Gulf trip: June 16, 2010 - Kitimat Sentinel
• Fears of Cultural Extinction on Louisiana's Gulf Coast: June 15, 2010 - Counter Punch
• Gulf Oil Spill a "Slow Death" For Houma Tribe: June 15, 2010 - American Indian Report
• Gulf Coast Oil Spill - Sioux Prayer Request From Chief Arvol Looking Hors: June 14, 2010 - Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources
• Tribes seeking national meeting on Gulf spill: news black out minimizing spill damage: June 11, 2010 - Before Its News
• Oil Spill Threatens Native American "Water" Village: June 8, 2010 - National Geographic
• BP Oil Spill Threatens Future of Indigenous Communities in Louisiana: June 7, 2010 - Democracy Now
• Audio Interview by Pacifica Radio - United Houma Nation: No Date - United Houma Nation
• State recognized tribes face greater oil spill risks: June 4, 2010 - Indian Country Today
• Native American Group Hit Hard By Oil Spill: June 3, 2010 - National Public Radio
• Gulf oil disaster propels tribes into crisis: June 2, 2010 - Indian Country Today
• Oil spill threatens Native American land: June 1, 2010 - CNN
• Gulf oil spill threatens tribe's livelihood in Louisiana: June 1, 2010 - Miami Herald
• Oil threatens French-speaking Cajuns, native Choctaw: May 19, 2010 - AFP
• Spill reinforces oil bad will for American Indians: May 18, 2010 - Denver Post/Associated Press
• Existence of United Houma Nation in Peril: May 17, 2010 - United Houma Nation
• Indigenous Life Threatened by BP Oil Spill in Gulf: May 14, 2010 - Southeast Indigenous Peoples' Center Blog

Tar Sands:
Largest Destructive Project on Earth

BP is the last global major oil company to enter into the tar/oil sands in northern Alberta, Canada. The tar sands is a cause of human rights violations to Indigenous Peoples, environmental health, water contamination, loss of boreal forests, major contributor to climate change with processing and combustion of high-carbon dirty fuels and constructing over 5,000 miles of pipeline corridors through North America to refineries in the U.S.

BP Proves Beyond Petroleum was greenwashing, joins "biggest global warming crime every seen"

News - VIDEO: how tar sands activists took on BP - The Ecologist

Investor backlash over BP's 'Sunrise'

BP pledges not to use open-pit mining at Canadian oil sands sites

BP brass faces rebellion over oilsands
But investors' call for Husky venture review fails; CEO's 41 per cent raise draws shareholders' fire

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BP Carbon Offset Scam:
The Noel Kempff Project in Bolivia

A REDD-type forest carbon offset project that allows BP to continue drilling, burning oil and coal in the North in trade for protecting almost 650,000 hectares of rainforest for 30 years. In return, the carbon offsets generated allowed BP to continue polluting – causing toxic hotspots in the North and violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples in places like the tar sands in Canada and local fishing communities along the Gulf Coast.

The Gulf oil spill is a wake-up call from Mother Earth. It’s a message that the industrialized society cannot depend on technology to save itself. The hole in Mother Earth cannot be band aided by false solutions. In recognizing the root causes of climate change, demand the US & Canada work towards decreasing their dependency on fossil fuels and support the Cochabamba People’s Accord.

Carbon scam: the Noel Kempff project in Bolivia

Noel Kempff project is 'saving the forest' by forcing destruction elsewhere

Noel Kempff REDD project criticized for increasing deforestation in Bolivia

BP Spills in Alaska:
Recent and Long History of Spills

Known as the crown jewel in the assets of BP, Prudhoe Bay became BP’s greatest discovery in the 1950’s and has since been one of the primary domestic sources of oil for the USA. In May 2010, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down after spilling several thousand barrels of crude oil in the fragile ecosystem.

In 2006, BP phased out a shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay oil field following the discovery of unexpectedly severe corrosion and spills from oil transit lines.

As a result of oil and gas development in the North Slope, there are growing concerns among Inupiat communities regarding the potential impacts of regional industrial expansion on their health and culture, cancer clusters, more frequent asthma exacerbations and the compounding and accumulative effects of increased exposure to organic pollutants, including carcinogens and endocrine disruptors.

Since the 1950’s, BP has been responsible for thousands of oil spills from leaking pipelines and drill pads in Alaska’s North Slope and are aggressively moving into critical wildlife habitats like the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR) and have been behind an aggressive lobby campaign to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR) to big oil.

Call for a moratorium on all new exploration for oil, gas, coal and uranium as a first step towards the full phase-out of fossil fuels, without nuclear power, with a just transition to sustainable jobs, energy and environment.

Demand accountability of BP and other fossil fuel corporations (Shell, Exxon/Mobil, etc.) and governments to recognize the Rights of Mother Earth.

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