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Shortly after BP's catastrophic oil spill in the gulf, the New YorkTimes spoke to Quenton Dokken, the executive director of the Gulf of
Mexico Foundation, about the environmental impact. "The sky is not falling," Dokken told the paper, adding "it isn't the end of the Gulf of Mexico." ...Today, the Times reported that the Foundation has been downplayingeffects of the spill, possibly because of its funding from oil companies.
ThinkProgress has obtained more documents and evidence that the Gulf of Mexico Foundation has operated as a front for the oil companies involved in the spill.
The group's claims have included that BP oil spill clean up jobs are better than "normal jobs," and are even
"guaranteeing" that a hurricane will clean up any remnants of BP's
spill: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/18/bp-gulf-foundation/
