There Are Massive Chemical Dumps In The Gulf We Know Almost Nothing About
In the 1970s, the EPA allowed chemical companies to dump toxic waste into the deep sea. Now, oil giants are drilling right on top of it.
By Chris D Angelo
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Seventy miles off the coast of Louisiana, among a maze of drilling platforms and seafloor pipelines, thousands of 55-gallon drums containing hazardous industrial chemicals litter a vast, dark swath of the ocean floor. They’ve been sitting there for nearly 50 years.
Charles McCreery was a few months into a new job as an oceanographer and water quality expert at the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management when he first learned of the dumping ground. It was 2014, and he was tasked with reviewing oil giant Shell’s exploration plans in an offshore leasing area known as Mississippi Canyon, in the north-central Gulf of Mexico. Deep in the document, he came across the company’s internal policy for steering clear of toxic waste b
She, of course, painted Yes back in bright red paint.
The two artists, who now live in Quincy, first met seven years ago. Both eventually realized they had mutual friends in common, and it wasn t long before they started to do everything together, Douglas said.
Roth, an artist and art therapist, works alongside her now fiancé as a full time artist and designe to create colorful spray painted murals combining Douglas skills at spray painted portraiture and Roth s expertise in color.
They even started a mobile art truck together, the Up Truck, when they first started dating, Douglas said. I mean everyone is like this is so beautiful, it s so romantic, Roth said. I m like, yes, it is, but it means so much on so many levels because this is. . Us. It s what we do together and it s part of our partnership to create together. So it s really special in a lot of ways.
A âpublic art proposalâ in Hull
By Diti Kohli Globe Correspondent,Updated January 3, 2021, 2:56 p.m.
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Julia Roth and Cedric Douglas during the proposal at Fort Revere Park.Hannah Bailey (Custom credit)
A few years ago, artists Cedric âVise1â³ Douglas and Julia Roth imagined getting married at Fort Revere Park, a historic site in Hull that houses a Revolutionary War-era fortification. Its fading, brown walls â now smattered with graffiti â stretch out their arms near the ocean. The steps are interrupted by small patches of grass; the Boston skyline lingers in the view.
âItâs one of our favorite places to go,â Douglas said.