At the same time people are making an every day effort to fight environmental crimes, there are those who perpetrate them.

I've made a list of some of the most recent notorious industries which have unconscientiously turned a profit at the expense of the environment its occupants.

BP

Self-explanatory almost what with the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year, but to go on in details....

- April 20, 2010, deep sea drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, belonging to the British energy giant BP, exploded in Gulf of Mexico.

   -> Eleven people died

   -> Leak sealed 87 days later

   -> At least 800 million liters (over 211 million gallons)

       of oil released into sea

    -> entire food chain in region in danger & will be

        affected for decades

    -> clouds of oil and gas driven underwater will kill off

         huge areas of the ocean

    -> Fisheries, land- and water-based animals, and

        tourism will be endangered for decades

- BP continues to expand dangerous mining techniques

-Investing in dirtiest oil in world, derived from Canadian

  tar sands

  -> indigenous communities call oil from tar sands

      ?bloody oil.?

  -> Cancer rates in the communities soared in recent

       years due to oil-related poisoning.

- Practices aggressive global lobbying for weaker CO2 

   and climate protection laws, as well as for lower oil

   production safety standards

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