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Taylor Energy
Maybe I'm exposing my extreme ignorance here, but if I'm honest, I did not even know of the existence of this company.
SwissChap-
You're not being ignorant, they closed down in 2008 in an attempt to avoid financial responsibility for the spill.
Anyway, I don't think I'm making my point very well here. I guess I'm just trying to demonstrate the level of futility of the whole situation. Until such time as environmental responsibility is more profitable than the current state of affairs and such time that environmental issues are not politicised for nationalistic purposes (Would the fine for Deepwater Horizon been so huge if it had been an American company?), not much is going to change.
Individual responsibility hasn't made a dent. Collective responsibility is too contentious, plenty of people out there in denial. The only way things are going to change is if you follow the money.
Stonehedge
Just as an example of how political a lot of the environmental campaigns are, just compare the publicity around BP Deepwater Horizon and the Taylor Energy oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Taylor Energy have been leaking 70,000 gallons of crude PER DAY into the GoM for over 14 years, more than Deepwater Horizon. The spill is still underway, and TE are under minimal pressure to cap it. Why don't TE get the same heat as BP do?
https://eu.news-press.com/story/news/2019/09/18/taylor-energy-trump-offshore-oil-drilling-spill-gulf-mexico/3691509002/