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Presentation to Sustainable West Seattle – 20 September 2010

September 23, 2010 4 comments

Fellow Folders,

Below the fold, you will find the slides and transcript from a presentation that I recently gave to the kind folks that comprise Sustainable West Seattle.

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What would Gaylord do? An essay on the environmental movement and the Deepwater Horizon disaster

On March 31, 2010, President Obama lifted the offshore drilling moratorium on the Atlantic coast and Northern Alaska (offshore drilling is still not allowed on the West Coast).  Less than one month later, on April 20, BP’s offshore rig, the Deepwater Horizon (leased from Transocean), suffered a blowout and explosion.  Eleven workers were tragically killed, and the platform eventually sank leaving an uncapped well which continues to flow at a rate of roughly 200,000 gallons per day.

Deepwater Horizon burning on the Gulf - Photo Credit Gerald Herbert/AP (Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126391959)

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