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Title: “The oil is creeping towards my home in Alabama as I write this, and it is breaking my heart.”
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Published: May 12, 2010
Author: bh
Post Date: 2010-05-12 20:44:06 by tom007
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“The oil is creeping towards my home in Alabama as I write this, and it is breaking my heart.” Published by ash_anderson, May 12th, 2010 Climate Justice , Climate Policy , Climate Science , Climate and Forestry , Corporate Responsibility , Corruption , Dirty Energy , Extraction , Government , Impacted Communities , Oceans , Oil , global warming 1 Comment

Brinkley Hutchings, Greenpeace Student Network activist, at home on the Alabama coast -- directly in the path of the fast-approaching spill.

From Brinkley Hutching’s blog, a post entitled A Local’s Account of the Deepwater Disaster. She filmed an astonishing video from her fathers aircraft, as they flew from their home to the source of the spill and back. See below. She is also the Greenpeace Campus Coordinator at University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

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I grew up in one of the most beautiful places. Montrose, Alabama. My family lives on Mobile Bay, and I spent my childhood exploring the many bays, rivers, streams and creeks near my home. Starting at age 7, I would spend whole days exploring the local waters and shorelines with my little 13 foot boat. What existed naturally in my own backyard was truly utopian. Now, all the beautiful trees, wildlife and pristine waters, all will see the thick black and red oil within these next days. It brings a deeper ache than I can express.

As I flew out to the spill last Friday with my father (he’s a pilot), I wasn’t prepared for what I was going to witness. Here are some notes I took during the flight as we approached the source of this disaster:

“We are starting to smell oil…the pungent smell burns my nostrils and I feel nauseated to the core of my being….oh my God…red streaks of oil are everywhere…thick black near the well…it is crude oil and it stretches as far as I can see…I am sick…I can’t feel my own body or distinguish any of my feelings right now… this is the worst and most saddening situation I have ever seen in my life…The boats are randomly skewn about, and they are so disorganized! The cleanup efforts look completely haphazard and ineffective. It is utter chaos down there! Boats randomly placed, pulling booms that are simply swirling the oil around in circles! I really don’t feel alive right now…this is a horrible dream…why the heck didn’t BP have to have a plan in place for a disaster like this?!”

It was so much worse than I could have ever imagined and not even close to what the media has been portraying. I couldn’t even take it all in. I saw miles and miles of crude oil pouring from the Earth’s core to the ocean’s surface, red as blood, where it then proceeded to move eerily and ominously with the current toward my home. Before I even registered sadness, tears poured down my face. My entire body cried. I felt so helpless looking down at that uncontainable and chaotic mess. I will never be able to clear that picture from my mind.

This disaster could have been prevented, yet it wasn’t due to BP’s own negligence and a weak national energy policy. What’s outrageous is that BP is doing everything they can to avoid assuming responsibility for this spill. How dare they try and sidestep responsibility for the worst disaster in the Gulf’s history?!?!?!

Over 4 million gallons of crude oil are destroying the Gulf coast and innumerable wildlife habitats while also crippling local economies – this is destroying my home.The time of giveaways and loose regulation of the oil industry must end.

I hope with all my heart that this disaster will be a huge wakeup call. Things must change. We must all work to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels and be involved in a clean energy revolution. Congress needs to ban offshore drilling and President Obama needs to provide unwavering support to end offshore drilling.

Please talk to your friends. Talk to your neighbors. Start organizing yourselves. Become involved with these serious issues we are facing. If we continue on our current path of carelessly extracting fossil fuels like oil and coal, rather than harnessing clean, renewable energy like wind power, we will see many more tragedies like the BP oil spill. From the disaster zone,

Brinkley Hutchings

Still photos taken during the flight

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* Oil continues to dump into the Gulf * National Day of Action, Night of Mourning Against Offshore Drilling. Friday… * My Op-Ed on the Offshore Drilling Disaster * Powering Our Future

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#25. To: tom007 (#0)

Over 4 million gallons of crude oil are destroying the Gulf coast and innumerable wildlife habitats while also crippling local economies – this is destroying my home.The time of giveaways and loose regulation of the oil industry must end.

Four million gallons is a drop in the bucket when you are talking about the Gulf of Mexico. Not to say it won't kill some fish and birds but to think that four million gallons is going to destroy the Gulf of Mexico is foolish. Now if she is talking about that much a day or something like that, then yes, that could be very serious. But oil seeps into the ocean all the time and it is broken up by natural processes. I suspect this one will be too.

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-05-12   22:30:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: James Deffenbach (#25) (Edited)

Four million gallons is a drop in the bucket...

...which explains why the mass media has to hype this event with 25,000 stories a day (according to google headlines) as the spill operation was just getting cranked up.

we know whose side the mass media is on, dont we? ...as they continue their attempts to expand the wars to iran...

groundresonance  posted on  2010-05-12   22:33:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: groundresonance (#28)

...which explains why the mass media has to hype this event with 25,000 stories a day (according to google headlines) as the spill operation was just getting cranked up.

we know whose side the mass media is on, dont we? ...as they continue their attempts to expand the wars to iran...

The media makes a big ado over nothing in order to divert the people's minds from what is really important.

It will be a bad fishing season for a few thousand people, but compared to 100 million, that is nothing. 10,000 people will stay away which hurts the local economies but others will come just to see it which will help the local economies.

It takes time, but the oil desolves in ocean water, the bacteria will eat it, and the hot summer sun will evaporate it. In any event, a few months after the oil spill stops, there will not be a trace. Then the media will hype the sex life of some movie star to keep our minds occupied on what is not important.

DWornock  posted on  2010-05-13   2:26:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#42. To: DWornock (#41)

The media makes a big ado

the main thing is to keep the wars going in the middle east... and restricting drilling in offshore america will contribute to keeping the wars going.

so the basic unadmitted fact will be that the wars are to grab oil.

the most forbidden fact is that the wars will be to protect israel.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-05-13 02:30:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: DWornock (#41)

...the oil desolves in ocean water, the bacteria will eat it, and the hot summer sun will evaporate it...

Uhhhh.... what?

wudidiz  posted on  2010-05-13 02:45:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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