Nonprofit Conservation Group (cited by NYT) Has Ties to Oil Interests, Gulf Oil Spill

[kpete]

Source: ProPublica

Gulf Oil Spill Is Bad, but How Bad?
By JOHN M. BRODER and TOM ZELLER Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/us/04enviro.html?hp


Nonprofit Conservation Group Has Ties to Oil Interests, Gulf Oil Spill

The nonprofit Gulf of Mexico Foundation, cited in a New York Times story about the BP oil spill, has strong industry ties. One of their board members, Dr. Ian Hudson, (pictured), is an executive at the company that owns the Gulf oil rig that exploded.

This post has been updated 1.

With crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico every day, the conventional wisdom about last month’s explosion and spill has been that this is an environmental disaster of unpredictable scale. The New York Times, in a story published today on Page One 2, challenged this conventional wisdom by citing several experts. One of those was from a nonprofit group called the Gulf of Mexico Foundation:

“The sky is not falling,” said Quenton R. Dokken 3, a marine biologist and the executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, a conservation group in Corpus Christi, Tex. “We’ve certainly stepped in a hole and we’re going to have to work ourselves out of it, but it isn’t the end of the Gulf of Mexico.

Read more: http://www.propublica.org/ion/blog/item/non-profit-conservation-group-has-ties-to-big-oil-interests-gulf-oil-spill

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Update III: The NYTPicker, http://www.nytpick.com/2010/05/huh-using-anonymous-and-dubious-sources.html an anonymous group blog that watches coverage by The New York Times, had a post up this morning <6> that pointed out the Gulf of Mexico Foundation’s ties to the oil industry. Their post also raised questions about other sources in the story. And a UC Davis professor, blogging at the Huffington Post, noted the ties <7> at 2am this morning.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/the-new-york-times-astrot_b_562090.html

[NC_Nurse]

1. These right wing Trojan Horses are popping up everywhere. They have the

hubris to name their organizations as if they were REAL environmental advocates, but they're just another front for Big Oil.

Scumbags.

[glitch]

4. It's good to see them get exposed in corporate media for a change. nt

[rzemanfl]

2. I suspected that was a whored story when I read it. eom

[meow mix]

3. me too

such a rosey scenario

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Insta-Bullshit Foundation.

Just add water. And oil. And lies. :grr: