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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. The _New York Times_ had a page one story today quoting a source
downplaying the impacts of the Gulf spill. “The sky is not falling,” Quenton R. Dokken told the paper. They list Dokken as “a marine biologist and the executive director of the Gulf of
Mexico Foundation, a conservation group in Corpus Christi, Tex.” But the _Times_ failed to mention that the source and his innocuous sounding foundation have numerous ties to the oil
industry, including those at fault in the Gulf spill. _Mother Jones_ alum Marian Wang, now at _ProPublica_, has the scoop: > At least half of the 19 members of the group’s board of
directors > have direct ties to the offshore drilling industry. One of them is > currently an executive at Transocean, the company that owns the > Deepwater Horizon rig that
exploded last month, causing millions of > gallons of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico. > Seven other board members are currently employed at oil companies, > or at companies
that provide products and services “primarily” > to the offshore oil and gas industry. Those companies include Shell, > Conoco Phillips, LLOG Exploration Company, Devon Energy,
Anadarko > Petroleum Company and Oceaneering International. Read the whole post at _ProPublica_.
