UPDATE: This video is temporarily offline. Is the ground water in Texas safe to drink? Not unlike the Transocean Deepwater Horizon, BP offshore oil spill and oil plume assaulting the Gulf coast beaches, wetlands and marine life, Texas is under assault by hundreds of underground oil plumes attacking our drinking water, aquifers and soil. There are currently 1200 polluted contamination sites found in over one hundred counties. The law requires the oil and gas operators of fracking or high pressure injections wells and gas plants to clean up their toxic waste and pollution. But Texas Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Railroad Commission fails the citizens of Texas by failing to enforce the law. “What’s in Your Backyard?” is a documentary examining one example in Bee County where the city of Beeville and surrounding community is threatened by an underground toxic plume of hydrocarbons and heavy metals marching towards them. Sadly the Tuleta gas plant operators responsible for this contamination are well funded and capable of cleaning up this toxic mess but instead get a free ride courtesy of Rick Perry and the Texas Railroad Commission’s failure to enforce the law. How many acres of land, water wells and aquifers need to be poisoned before our elected officials step up and enforce our state laws? Watch the video and tell us what you think.
Produced by Mark Susman
Executive Producers : Wigington Rumley Dunn, L.L.P.
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The Gulf of Mexico is home to the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles. Twenty-eight years of restorative efforts to protect the survival of the species is threaten by the BP oil spill. Shrimp trawlers are bad enough but oil in the water and on the beaches reverses three decades of progress. Sunset Productions and Fast Cut Films is currently in production of a public awareness documentary about the plight of the Kemp’s ridley sea turtles. The film features interviews of notable scientists and turtle experts including Marine Fisheries Research Biologist, Charles Caillouet, Ph.D. In this clip Dr. Caillouet discusses the negative effect of the oil spill on the struggling sea turtle population. The video filmed in 2008, shows Kemp’s ridley turtle hatchlings heading off to the Gulf to begin their life’s journey. The film documentary is sponsored by the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Carole H. Allen, Gulf Office Director. for more information please visit www.seaturtles.org.
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