Stories by Riki Ott
Riki Ott, PhD, is a community activist, a former fisherm'am, and has a degree in marine toxicology with a specialty in oil pollution. She is also the author of Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
Drilling put in motion by Clinton and Bush have had such devastating effects on Arctic communities it fits the UN definition of cultural genocide.
Posted on Jan 27, 2009, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
An open letter to Tennessee communities harmed by the coal ash spill.
Posted on Jan 5, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
The people of Cordova, Alaska were screwed once by Exxon in 1989 and then again by the Supreme Court last month.
Posted on Jul 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Author Riki Ott tells the extraordinary tale of the people who took on the world's richest oil companies to protect Prince William Sound.
Posted on Jun 18, 2008, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
And now the Supreme Court has agreed to hear Exxon try to explain why it shouldn't pay.
Posted on Nov 5, 2007, Source: AlterNet
