&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/55566?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=BP+oil+disaster+documentary+rakes+over+big+questions+about+the+spill%3AArticle%3A1647958&amp;ch=Environment&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=BP+oil+spill+Deepwater+Horizon%2CDocumentary+%28Film+genre%29%2CPollution+%28Environment%29%2COil+%28environment%29%2COil+spills+%28Environment%29%2CBP+%28Business%29%2CFilm%2CCulture%2CEnvironment&amp;c5=Environment+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CEnergy%2CEthical+Living&amp;c6=Suzanne+Goldenberg&amp;c7=11-Oct-14&amp;c8=1647958&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost&amp;c11=Environment&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Environment+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2Fblog%2FEnvironment+blog&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;The Big Fix raises concerns over Obama administration&#039;s use of toxic chemical Corexit and BP&#039;s leverage in the crisis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s not every film that sets off on a mini-road trip with Peter Fonda, only to veer off into a night-vision goggle surveillance of a BP facility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But then, the events of last year&#039;s BP oil disaster have so far been largely revisited in books, not documentaries. Until now, when a new documentary about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has its premiere at the New Orleans film festival.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://greenplanet3d.com/films/6/&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Bix Fix&lt;/a&gt;, by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, re-opens some of the most persistent questions about last year&#039;s oil spill. How BP was able to exert so much control over the crisis as it unfolded? What were the long-term health consequences of using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/20/gulf-oil-spill-chemical-dispersant&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;toxic chemical, Corexit&lt;/a&gt;, to break up the oil and drive it underwater?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rebecca Tickell herself had a serious reaction to the chemical after being out on the open water &ndash; and as it turned out so did the doctor she consulted in an Alabama beach town. She still has health problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Josh Tickell, who grew up in Louisiana, said the Obama administration&#039;s decision to allow the use of Corexit, which is banned in Britain, was the biggest surprise in the making of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The most shocking thing to me was the disregard with which the people of the Gulf region were dealt,&quot; Tickell said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Specifically I think that there was sort of a turn-a-blind-eye attitude towards the spraying of dispersants to clean up the spill. I don&#039;t think anyone wanted to look too deeply at the consequences.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bp-oil-spill&quot;&gt;BP oil spill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/documentary&quot;&gt;Documentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/pollution&quot;&gt;Pollution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/oil&quot;&gt;Oil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/oil-spills&quot;&gt;Oil spills&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/bp&quot;&gt;BP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/suzannegoldenberg&quot;&gt;Suzanne Goldenberg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;