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		<title>BP Response Workers Report Low Morale, Lack of Pay, Sickness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Story by Dahr Jamail, Photography by Erika Blumenfeld, t r u t h o u t &#124; Report BP Oil Disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampant sickness, equipment failures, and being lied to regularly. “Yesterday was a catastrophe,” one worker, speaking on condition of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/27/bp-response-workers-report-low-morale-lack-of-pay-sickness/</link>
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		<title>What Happens Next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Story by Dahr Jamail Photography by Erika Blumenfeld Recently we met with Captain Louis Skrmetta who runs Ship Island Excursions out of Gulfport, Mississippi. His grandfather came to the US from Croatia in 1904, and began working as an oyster fisherman, now an endangered endeavor. From that background arose the family business of ferrying people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/23/what-happens-next/</link>
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		<title>BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico&#8217;s Food Chain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Story by Dahr Jamail, Photography by Erika Blumenfeld, Inter Press Service &#124; Report NEW ORLEANS – Environmental experts warn that the eco-systems and food chain in the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding region already deeply harmed and toxified by the ongoing British Petroleum (BP) oil disaster likely face much greater damage. “You know how the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/20/bp-oil-poisons-the-gulf-of-mexicos-food-chain/</link>
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		<title>BP&#8217;s Scheme To Swindle The &#8220;Small People&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Story by Dahr Jamail, Photography by Erika Blumenfeld, t r u t h o u t &#124; Report Gulf Coast fishermen and others with lost income claims against British Petroleum (BP) are outraged by a recent announcement that the $20 billion government-administered claim fund will subtract money they earn by working on the cleanup effort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/19/bps-scheme-to-swindle-the-small-people/</link>
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		<title>The Source of Our Despair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by: Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, t r u t h o u t &#124; Photo Essay For the first time in 87 days, little or no oil could be escaping into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Macondo well. The new Capping Stack was deployed on July 11 from onboard the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/18/the-source-of-our-despair/</link>
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		<title>Toxic Dispersants Near Gulf Harm Humans and Wildlife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by: Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, t r u t h o u t &#124; Photo Essay My eyes are burning as I type this. We’ve just returned from spending the day down in Barataria, located about an hour drive south of New Orleans. The community of fishermen is swimming in oil. Within minutes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/14/toxic-dispersants-near-gulf-harm-humans-and-wildlife/</link>
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		<title>Requesting Your Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers: This morning we hired a flight out to the well site where the Deepwater Horizon sank. This environmental crime scene is now littered with boats and relief wells flailing to stop the flow of oil that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for almost 3 months. Tomorrow, we are hiring a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/12/requesting-your-support/</link>
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		<title>Hell Has Come to South Louisiana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Story by Dahr Jamail Photography by Erika Blumenfeld Clint Guidry is a shrimper from Lafitte, Louisiana. As we sit together, he shows me a picture of his house with 18 inches of water in it as a result of Hurricane Ike in 2008. In his deep voice, he looks me in the eye and says, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/11/hell-has-come-to-south-louisiana/</link>
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		<title>Mitigating Annihilation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by: Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, t r u t h o u t &#124; Photo Essay From the air, the area north of Grand Isle, Louisiana, much of it around Barataria Bay, looks like scorched earth. This area has been and is heavily afflicted by BP’s oil. The so-called clean up efforts, including laying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepolarproject.com/blog/2010/07/07/mitigating-annihilation/</link>
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		<title>Fending for Themselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Story by Dahr Jamail Photography by Erika Blumenfeld We drive south on Louisiana Highway 55 towards Pointe-au-Chien. The two-lane road hugs a bayou, like most of the roads leading south into the marsh areas. Incredibly green, lush forest gives way to increasing areas of water the further south we venture, until the very road feels [...]]]></description>
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