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| Kate Stringer - writing about oil in the Gulf of Mexico. |
That’s what Cherri Foytlin thought six years ago as she sat
in a boat speeding toward the largest oil spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico.
Then a journalist for a local Louisiana paper, Foytlin
enlisted a fisherman and his son to give her a behind-the-scenes look at the
damage caused by BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion that killed 11 people
and spewed 205.8 million gallons of oil over 87 days in 2010.
They didn’t have to go far. From the brown water, the
fisherman pulled out a pelican. The bird was convulsing and covered in oil.
They steered the boat back toward land, but it was too late. Foytlin watched
the fisherman cry as his son hugged him.
“That’s when I realized how incredibly fragile this Earth
is,” Foytlin said. “When I got home, I had to take a really hard look at
myself: ‘How have I contributed to this situation?’”
Read the Yes!
story - “Only Six Years After BP Oil Disaster, Gulf Coast Is Faced With New Drilling.”
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