I may be wrong but I find that the BP oil spill may have gone over a few people’s heads, especially here in Canada far removed from the situation.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout) is  a catastrophically massive and ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.   Many are now calling it one of the largest oil spills in history with hundreds of millions of gallons spilled to date. The spill stems from a sea floor oil gusher that resulted from the 20 April 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. The explosion killed 11 platform workers and injured 17 others.

TO give you guys a point of reference for how bad this oil spill really is The gusher is estimated to be flowing at 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of crude oil per day. For comparison, this is an amount equal to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill every one to two weeks.

One thing I’ve noticed is a lack of horrific pictures of the effects of this oil spill and I think that might be part of the reason many people aren’t taking this spill as seriously as that of the Exxon Valdez spill.

Now the American government has effectively made it a felony to take pictures of oiled wildlife. I can’t believe how ridiculous that is and it leaves me sick to my stomach.

Jonathan Elinoff has rounded up rarely-seen videos and pictures of the gulf oil spill and put them all in one place: Glance through these and you’ll start to understand how truly horrific this man made environmental disaster really is.

What the fuck is Obama doing trying to cover up this disaster?  And what the fuck are we doing with such an insane oil dependency in the 21st century…. Our world is warming up into an easy bake oven.  We’re in a 3 trillion dollar failed war over oil…Projected total US spending on the Iraq war could cover all of the global investments in renewable power generation that are needed between now and 2030 in order to halt current warming trends.  And we have so many other options.  But instead of debating whether we should be even thinking about continuing offshore drilling instead we’re talking about to put safeguards in place on the oil rigs to make sure this doesn’t happen again.  How about just stop drilling and use alternative energy source that are already out there, there not science fiction, we’ve got em… Fuckkkinggg use them.

So go follow the jump and check out some truly awesome examples of the outcome of human stupidity and greed in the 21st century.

A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A pair of Brown Pelicans, covered in oil, sit on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A sea bird soaked in oil sits in the surf at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A Brown Pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A bird covered in oil flails in the surf at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)