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Giant oil spill off the coast of Brazil was caused by Chevron.

Non-renewable energy continues to violate Earth and human rights everywhere it's drilled

Although cover-ups of the causes of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico "spill" and the recent Brazil spill are similar, unlike U.S. government treatment of the companies involved in the nation's largest eco-disaster that began with the April 20 deep sea oil rig explosion, Brazil has banned California-based Chevron from the nation and jail terms for officials are expected due to Big Energy's involvement with the oil spill that leaked some 2,400 barrels of oil into the sea off Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 8.

"The company's treatment of the regulatory agency and the Brazilian government was unacceptable," director of the ANP Magda Chambriard told Bloomberg.

"We had to go aboard the platform to search for the original images even after the company was notified to provide us with the video."

"Oil giant Chevron (CVX) is banned from further drilling in Brazil, after an oil spill off the country's coast earlier this month," and "there are now doubts about the Californian corporation's role in the country's huge and ever-expanding oil industry -- in line for $225 billion of investment over the next five years," reports the Minyaville.

Chevron has already been fined $28m and further penalties, including possibly jail terms for officials, are expected.

Reuters reported Monday, "The second-largest U.S. oil company has emerged bruised from a week in which it was fined $28 million, had its local chief executive hauled in front of Congress and then had its Brazilian drilling rights suspended as punishment for the undersea leak."

BP has recently been welcomed to begin its deep sea drilling in the Gulf after its suspension and massive PR campaign. Less than two months after the Gulf catastrophe began, on June 9, BP bought top Google and Yahoo! search results for terms like "oil spill" in a bid to recover its public image.

Within the first three months of the Gulf catastrophe, BP spent $93.4 million on newspaper, magazine, television and Internet ads, three times what it spent in comparable period in 2009.

By August 6, it was known that BP, aided by mainstream media, began filtering video feeds to hide the leaks. BP had poorly photo-shopped an official image of their crisis command center. Florida Oil Spill Law posted side-by-side video footage of live ROV feeds showing BP was "photo-shopping" to hide the massive leaks from the sea floor.

Oil with BP's fingerprint is still filling the Gulf and washing ashore the Gulf Coast.

Deep sea oil drilling is not safe, clean or healthy

"This spill shows that there is much that we still don't know," said Segen Estefan, a professor of undersea engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

"We have to recognize that we really don't fully understand the risks and need to do much more to not only make drilling safer but find ways to clean up spills. As you go deeper everything gets more difficult."

The Chevron accident is just one more after a series of recent accidents on platforms owned by state-controlled oil firm Petrobras.

Although TransOcean owned both the oil rig in the Gulf rented by BP and the rig off the caost of Rio rented by Chevron, Chevron has taken full responsibility for the Brazilian leak.

"The spill shows that nobody was properly prepared, not Chevron, not the government, not the regulators," said Ildo Sauer, Petrobras's former top natural gas executive and a one-time energy adviser to Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff.

"We need to totally rethink our safety paradigm."

Renewable energy advocates say we need to totally rethink more than fossil fuel safety and instead replace dirty, unhealthy, high-risk fossil fuel oil with clean, healthy, safe renewable energy advocates, as documented in the years most controversial movie, "The Big Fix" that revolves around the 2010 Gulf oil catastrophe and exposes the darkest and most violent Earth and human rights violations by Big Energy.

"The Big Fix" premieres in New York City this weekend.