“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – Winston Churchill.
When it comes to oil spills no one knows this better than Native Alaskans. Indigenous Arctic tribes learned their lesson during the Exxon Valdez debacle of 1989. In this edition of Assignment Earth several leaders of the Inupiaq Tribe came south to tour the devastation of the recent British Petroleum disaster that continues to spew toxic crude into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
“We had many miles of our beaches like this,” said Alaskan native Earl Kingik. “ A lot of our shore birds fly away and don’t come back to Point Hope due to this kind of oil activity, this oil spill.”
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![Oil-on-Beach](/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Oil-on-Beach.jpg)
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