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Gulf of Mexico Foundation: May 2010

Gulf of Mexico Foundation

NYT: We Flubbed Description Of Transocean-Linked 'Conservation Group' In Oil Spill Story

Justin Elliott | May 5, 2010, 8:56AM


A ribbon of oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig, and the board of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation (inset)

The New York Times has published an editors' note saying a front-page story questioning the scope of the oil spill "should have included more information" about the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, which was described as a "conservation group" without noting its close ties to the oil industry and Transocean, the owner of the rig that exploded.

The head of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation was quoted as saying: "The sky is not falling. We've certainly stepped in a hole and we're going to have to work ourselves out of it, but it isn't the end of the Gulf of Mexico."

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Topics: Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico Foundation, TransOcean LTD.

Gulf of Mexico Foundation

'Conservation Group' Quoted In NYT Frontpager On Oil Spill Has Ties To Transocean

Justin Elliott | May 4, 2010, 3:15PM


A ribbon of oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig, and the board of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation (inset)

A "conservation group" that struck a markedly optimistic tone in a front-page New York Times piece on the Gulf Coast oil spill is made up largely of oil industry executives, and its most recent board meeting was hosted by Transocean, the owner of the rig that exploded, ProPublica reports.

Quenton Dokken, the executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, told the Times, in a story headlined "Gulf Oil Spill Is Bad, but How Bad?": "The sky is not falling. We've certainly stepped in a hole and we're going to have to work ourselves out of it, but it isn't the end of the Gulf of Mexico."

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Topics: Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico Foundation, TransOcean LTD.

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