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5 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What are the odds that these are incarcerated workers performing the cleanup work?
As a reminder, the fossil industry uses cheap incarcerated labor to boost its profits. @carly_berlin @scalawagmag scalawagmagazine.org/2020/03/powerl…
California is so progressive that when its incarcerated residents are done fighting climate warming induced forest fires, they are bussed to clean up oil spills. google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
@bp_America used a lot of “inmate labor” to clean up its mess in 2010. prisonlegalnews.org/news/2011/mar/…

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Louisiana's Oilfield Site Restoration Program is perfect case study of why states have failed to managed to oil & gas wells and why we need a national Abandoned Well Administration. A 🧵🧵 1/
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Prepare for some tried and true industry rhetoric/propaganda to justify and prolong oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. I've got a thread for ya with a few I've seen deployed like clockwork. 🧵⤵️ 1/
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2. Or increasing ocean temps? winknews.com/2020/04/17/gul…
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