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Deepwater Dispatches: The Worst Possible Time

May 3, 2010

Posted by Apollo Gonzales in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
BP, deepwater, deepwaterhorizon, drilling, gulfcoast, gulfspill, louisiana, oilspill

I think it goes without saying that there is never a good time for an oil spill.  Certainly, the "drill baby drill" crowd would agree with me on that. Yesterday, sheltered from the pounding rain in his boat Capt. Kip...

Deepwater Dispatches (Part 1)

April 30, 2010

Posted by Apollo Gonzales in Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
BP, deepwater, deepwaterhorizon, drilling, gulfspill, oil

The first thing you forget when you leave the Gulf Coast, where I grew up, is the humidity. It is also, the first thing you are reminded of when you come home. When I got the call that I was...

Is T. Boone selling you shinola, or something else?

August 25, 2008

Posted by Apollo Gonzales in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
drilling, naturalgas, oil, shinola, tboonepickens, wind

I grew up in Houston, Texas. Maybe that made me more susceptible than most to the romanticized idea of being a Texas oil man. At the age of 18, the same summer I graduated high school, I went to work...

Apollo Gonzales
Apollo Gonzales
Netroots Campaign Manager
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