Albert Carter is an environmental financial campaigner, programmer, engineering manager, and a director of Bank.Green.

He has significant experience in constructing data processing and harvesting pipelines and is available for contract work.

Much of my environmental work was first motivated an event in the US Gulf Coast, where I grew up. There, in 2010, BP spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil.

Cleanup workers reported "eye, nose and throat irritation; respiratory problems; blood in urine, vomit and rectal bleeding; seizures; nausea and violent vomiting episodes that last for hours; skin irritation, burning and lesions; short-term memory loss and confusion; liver and kidney damage; central nervous system effects and nervous system damage; hypertension; and miscarriages". It’s no surprise, given that those unemployed fishermen were sometimes not allowed to use respirators, and BP threatened to fire those that did. Similarly aggressive reputation management tactics by BP often kept such details off of search pages while doctored photos created the illusion that BP the spill was under control.

To add insult to injury, BP offered those same fishing families cheap settlements, which waived the families' rights to join class action lawsuits. Often, with hungry children at home, no more livelihood on the Gulf, and no idea of what a class action lawsuit was or when it might pay them, they accepted.

My mother translated, interpreted, and did social work for one of the Vietnamese Gulf-coast fishing communities that BP hired to clean up. Though I had moved away for college, she shared the stories.

Learning about the tragedy in the Gulf led me to continue learning about fossil fuel companies, energy and the environment. I’ve since been involved in related projects like exposing reporting discrepancies in methane industry leak data, communicating environmental science to activists, and pushing banks to adopt greener lending policies.