Politely Disruptive's Johnny Colt on CNN
We have had many listeners and friends sending lots of emails, facebook messages, and phone calls about JC being in the Gulf and our concerns here at Politely Disruptive. He has been in the Gulf for over 2 weeks on a mission. Read more below….
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Johnny Colt wears a respirator mask while leaning over the side of a small boat. He scoops up a handful of batter-like brown muck. The signs of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico are in his hands.
Colt has been traveling around the Gulf with a crew, observing the toll of the oil disaster first-hand. He went through Hazmat training and collected samples from a bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Since then, he’s met the mayor of Grand Isle, interviewed an inventor of a valid oil slick solution and traveled to rare dune lakes in Florida.
When the news of the oil disaster first broke, Colt, a musician, left his Atlanta home and sped off for the Gulf Coast.
“I’ve been coming down to the Gulf to vacation with my family for 20 years,” he said. “I couldn’t believe how little information we were getting. I didn’t like feeling like a victim.”
Colt talked about his journey with CNN Newsroom’s Tony Harris on Tuesday. Live from a beach in Destin, Florida, he shared the environmental horrors he’s seen.
“When I arrived at Grand Isle, [Louisiana], I walked beaches full of oil, I bobbed and weaved through the National Guard, there are protest cemeteries in people’s front yards …” he told Harris.
Even though oil slick images were all over the news, nothing could have prepared Colt for what he actually saw. “I was shocked by the epic proportions of the disaster. I expected it to be bad, but not that bad,” he said.
Look out for Colt somewhere out on the Gulf, tracking the mess the oil disaster’s left behind. The former bassist of the Black Crowes, reality show veteran and self-described independent journalist is just uncovering the many stories to be told.