BP and the Oil Spill Posted by John on May 17, 2013

Profit, Pollution and Deception – BP and the Oil Spill

Director and Producer: Volker Barth

Synopsis: The Deepwater Horizon was known as one of the safest drilling rigs. When the alarm went off, it was about to complete an exploration well in 5,600 meters of depth. For months after the explosion, crude oil continued to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. BP was scrambling to control the damage, and the images to reach enter the public. All live-cams have been switched off, and all seems back to normal. Yet oil industry insiders, fishermen, lawyers, and marine toxicologists shed a different light upon the methods of BP and the Coast Guard, and the legacy of their toxic clean up. Is this a singular story of a foreign oil giant caught up between the need satisfy our still rising demand, and maximizing profits on the other side? Or, maybe it is a prototypical story for the oil industry, which will accompany the closing decades of the oil age? S. Gordon, maritime lawyer involved in the Deepwater Horizon Accident, assessed various productions on the case. He commented on this film as, “The work is perfectly incredible; the quality of the video is the best I have ever seen.”