As a resident of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and being 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, I have watched this disaster with grief and a sense of doom that is incomparable to believe. As I see dead pelicans wash ashore and hear that our beautiful white egrets and terns, sandpipers, and countless other wildlife that has left our shores and know they will never return, it saddens me that people seem to think this disaster will ever "get better" or "be cleaned". OIL DOESN'T GO AWAY! IT DOESN'T DISSOLVE! IT DOESN'T GET RE-ABSORBED BACK INTO NATURE! It is falling onto the floor of the Gulf and is pooling EVERYWHERE, ruining everything in comes in contact with.
The fragile ecosystem that has made our lifesblood is gone. Shrimping, oysterbeds, fishing, precious marshes, all of this is now a thing of the past. Never again will we be able to say you have fresh shrimp from Louisiana, or fresh oysters. The people here that have survived for generations as shrimpers, and fishermen are now out of work, forever.
To end my little diatribe here, I also get furious when I see the likes of Sarah Palin blaming Pres. Obama for this disaster.... don't I seem to remember a slogan "Drill, Baby, Drill" all over her and every Republican not too long ago? This is not a political disaster to me. It is a greed disaster and the blame goes to TransOcean for not addressing the 7 previous accidents and problems on their other rigs that they knew about and were simply too cheap to address and fix, as well as BP and their not wanting to address and fix problems that they also knew about and simply passed the buck on. There are still hundreds of oil rigs off the shores of Louisiana and we pray that this disaster never is repeated. Eleven men died that day, their bodies never found, their families forced to mourn and bury only empty coffins and tears, spattered with oil that will scar and remain forever in our hearts and most sadly on our coastline.
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Oil Spill
Date: 2010-06-03 04:11 am (UTC)The fragile ecosystem that has made our lifesblood is gone. Shrimping, oysterbeds, fishing, precious marshes, all of this is now a thing of the past. Never again will we be able to say you have fresh shrimp from Louisiana, or fresh oysters. The people here that have survived for generations as shrimpers, and fishermen are now out of work, forever.
To end my little diatribe here, I also get furious when I see the likes of Sarah Palin blaming Pres. Obama for this disaster.... don't I seem to remember a slogan "Drill, Baby, Drill" all over her and every Republican not too long ago? This is not a political disaster to me. It is a greed disaster and the blame goes to TransOcean for not addressing the 7 previous accidents and problems on their other rigs that they knew about and were simply too cheap to address and fix, as well as BP and their not wanting to address and fix problems that they also knew about and simply passed the buck on. There are still hundreds of oil rigs off the shores of Louisiana and we pray that this disaster never is repeated. Eleven men died that day, their bodies never found, their families forced to mourn and bury only empty coffins and tears, spattered with oil that will scar and remain forever in our hearts and most sadly on our coastline.