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.
Posted on Jun 12, 2010, Source: AlterNet
BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability and is actually disappearing oiled wildlife.
Posted on May 3, 2010, Source: Reuters
Penalties that British Petroleum will pay are based on spill volume -- Exxon saved billions by scuttling the true amount.
Posted on Jan 13, 2010, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
There is an opportunity for this state to demonstrate that it will act fairly and responsibly to protect its residents from oil spill impacts when the law fails to do so.
Posted on Dec 4, 2009, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
Not surprisingly, the industry's bill requires expedited oil drilling everywhere -- Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain, fish-rich Bristol Bay, and on the Florida Gulf Coast and Panhandle.
Posted on Jan 27, 2009, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
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 5, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
An open letter to Tennessee communities harmed by the coal ash spill.
Posted on Jul 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The people of Cordova, Alaska were screwed once by Exxon in 1989 and then again by the Supreme Court last month.
Posted on Jun 18, 2008, Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
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 Nov 5, 2007, Source: AlterNet
And now the Supreme Court has agreed to hear Exxon try to explain why it shouldn't pay.
