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Oil Spill, Hairboom, BP and the Oilpocalypse

Lisa Craig Gautier is Founder and the President of Matter of Trust. They were the most prominent citizen-led task force in the wake of BP / Halliburton / Deepwater Horizon / Gulf oil rig disaster.

They started in 1998 as a non-profitt concentrating on Renewable Resources & Eco-enthusiasts. They like to mimic how Mother Nature integrates enduring cycles and provides access to necessities in abundance. They pioneered gathering surplus materials to create hairbooms to help clean up oil. In 2007 when there was an accident and an oil spill in San Francisco Bay, they helped provide booms to thousands of volunteers who responded quickly to threat to their beaches, their Bay, their environment.