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GRITtv: Antonia Juhasz & Joe Berlinger: Big Oil's Devastation
"Oil is a messy business, even when it's legal," says filmmaker Joe Berlinger, and we've all seen the effects of that business splashed across front pages and television sets over the last month. But the BP disaster isn't the only mess that Big Oil has caused in the last couple of months, to say nothing of the years and decades past. The newest oil mess to be cleaned up is a Chevron spill in Utah that has flooded a Salt Lake City creek with thousands of gallons from a pipeline with what was described as a "quarter-sized hole" in it. Antonia Juhasz is director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange, and Joe Berlinger is director and producer of Crude: The Real Price of Oil, which looks at the effects of Chevron/Texaco on people in Ecuador's Amazon rainforests and their struggle for restitution. They both join Laura for a discussion of Big Oil's ongoing destruction around the world, and what can be done about it. If you want to do something to help, New Yorkers can attend a benefit screening of Crude with Joe Berlinger, Morgan Spurlock and others, and everyone can contribute to the Crude legal defense fund to fight Big Oil's lawyers.
Email this pageGRITtv: Crude: Joe Berlinger Talks About His Film "Crude"
From the 1960s to the early 1990s, Texaco, now Chevron, allegedly dumped 18 billion gallons of oil and toxic waste into the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador, creating a "cancer death zone" the size of Rhode Island. "Crude" details the case of a class-action suit brought on behalf of 30,000 rainforest dwellers against the company, following the lawyers and the science, but most importantly the people of this part of the Amazon in their fight against Big Oil. We're joined by the director and producer of this remarkable documentary, filmmaker Joe Berlinger and actress and activist Trudie Styler, who with her husband Sting co-founded the Rainforest Foundation 20 years ago.
GRITtv: September 10, 2009
In the headlines this week: Obama's much anticipated healthcare speech, Glenn Beck's attack on Van Jones and his subsequent resignation and another wave of foreclosures hits the country.
