THE BP DEEPWATER HORIZON BLAST
A 2,500 square mile oil slick, 5,000 barrels of crude a day - spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, an inability to cap the leak, 11 people missing and presumed dead, and at the heart of it -- an amazingly profitable company that seems virtually untouchable by either the regulations or the fines that are supposed to reign it in: British Petroleum.
Today on the Solution Zone we will take a closer look BP and try to understand both the company and the oil drilling industry, an industry that many environmentalists feel has run a-muck, in terms of threatening the environment, the economy and even the lives of its own employees.
In the first ½ hour we welcome Antonia Juhaz, Director of the Chevron program at Global Exchange, and author of "The Tyranny of Oil, to discuss her reccent article for the UK Guardian entitled BP Spends Millions Lobbying as it Drills Ever Deeper and the Environment Pays."
And in the second half of the program, investigative reporter Greg Palast, author of Armed Mad Hour and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and fraud investigator of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, will discuss his latest post Slick Operator: The BP I've known too well.