Smart Pig: BP’s OTHER Spill
With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill
Exxon Valdez
Slick Operator
The BP I've known too well
I’ve seen this movie before. In 1989, I was a fraud investigator hired to dig into the cause of
The Exxon Valdez and McCain’s Threat to Drill Our Coastline.
‘Catch Greg Palast with Bobby Kennedy on ‘Ring of Fire’
Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill
Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay
God Damn America Especially Pennsylvania
The kids were snoozing so I drove along the back roads skirting the Lackawanna River on a dawn hunt for
From Ecuador
Good and Evil at the Center of the Earth
A Conversation with Ecuador’s New President
Exxon suxx. McCain duxx.
Nineteen goddamn years is enough. I’m sorry if you don’t like my language, but when I think about what they did to
BURN BABY BURN
The California Celebrity Fires
The Boo ain’t no N.O. Plus: George Bush, Flame Retard What color is your disaster? It makes a difference. A life and death difference
British Petroleum's "Smart Pig"
The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown
For The Guardian (UK)
Is the Alaska Pipeline corroded? You bet it is. Has been for more than a decade. Did British Petroleum shut the pipe yesterday to turn a quick buck on its negligence, to profit off the disaster it created? Just ask the “smart pig.”
Years ago, I had the unhappy job of leading an investigation of British Petroleum’s management of the Alaska pipeline system.
BuzzFlash Interviews Greg Palast
Discussing Jeb Bush, Exxon Valdez and Bush-bin Laden
We are honored to post our second interview with Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for the BBC and the Observer (sister paper of the Guardian).
Nanwalek Rocks Natives at Ground Zero of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
At the far side of Alaska’s Kenai Fjord glacier, a heavily armed rock-and-roll band held lock-down control of the politics and treasury of Nanwalek, a Chugach village, until four years ago.
Don't Buy Exxon's Fable Of The Drunken Captain
For The Guardian UK
Thirty years ago this month, Alaskan natives sold Exxon and its partners an astronomically valuable patch of land — the oil terminal at Valdez for a single dollar.
The Chugach Natives of the Prince William Sound refused cash. Rather, in 1969, they asked only that the oil companies promise to protect their fishing and seal hunting grounds from oil.
