Gulf oil spill: 'The monster under the water'~ BBC (VIDEO)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13124332
19 April 2011 Last updated at 05:18 ET
A year on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, fishermen on Louisiana's Delacroix Island face an uncertain future, as Melanie Burford reports, with support from ProPublica.

The community was already in decline - hurricanes, erosion, the intrusion of modern life and falling seafood prices had all taken their toll.

Now, many of the remaining fishermen fear they may be the last of their kind, and that a way of life will disappear.

worth the watch.

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1. U.S. taxpayers paid BP to lease Deepwater Horizon rig — which was incorporated in a foreign country

http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/05/bp-tax-break-oil-ri/

BP's tax deduction was "more than $225,000 a day"
July 5, 2010
Transocean, the company that owns the failed Deepwater Horizon rig that caused the Gulf oil spill, used well-known tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland to lower its U.S. corporate tax rate by almost 15 points. And, as TP reports, due to a break in the U.S. tax code, BP was also allowed to write off the rent it paid to Transocean on its own tax bill, saving it hundreds of thousands of dollars per day:

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2. bbc overnight had a long interview with several families in Louisiana

the reporter had interviewed several families when the spill was happening and did a follow up a few weeks ago...

it`s not what our government wants anyone to hear.

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3. No Offshore drilling. No Nukes. End coal. Wind, wind wind....

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4. R'd