Progressive groups and fisherman are attacking the Obama administration for not protecting cleanup workers in the Gulf from hazardous oil and chemical dispersant fumes. Last week, a coalition of local and national groups launched BPMakesMeSick.com, a petition calling on President Obama to ensure that BP provides workers in the Gulf with respirators. The petition, sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), states: We cannot let the denial of protective gear that hurt so many 9/11 clean-up workers happen again with the Gulf clean-up workers. President Obama and the federal government must demand that BP allow every clean-up worker who wants to wear respiratory protective equipment to do so--and ensure that workers get the equipment and training they need to do their jobs safely.
Progressive groups and fisherman are attacking the Obama administration for not protecting cleanup workers in the Gulf from hazardous oil and chemical dispersant fumes. Last week, a coalition of local and national groups launched BPMakesMeSick.com, a petition calling on President Obama to ensure that BP provides workers in the Gulf with respirators.
The petition, sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), states:
We cannot let the denial of protective gear that hurt so many 9/11 clean-up workers happen again with the Gulf clean-up workers. President Obama and the federal government must demand that BP allow every clean-up worker who wants to wear respiratory protective equipment to do so--and ensure that workers get the equipment and training they need to do their jobs safely.
We cannot let the denial of protective gear that hurt so many 9/11 clean-up workers happen again with the Gulf clean-up workers.
President Obama and the federal government must demand that BP allow every clean-up worker who wants to wear respiratory protective equipment to do so--and ensure that workers get the equipment and training they need to do their jobs safely.
BP needs our unconditional support at this difficult time. respirators get in the way of efficiency, besides they cost money.
give haywood his life back! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Hey BP, where's my cheque? This advice doesn't come free. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Officials say tar balls found last week on Brevard County beaches are not from the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lori Stottler, a Cocoa Beach native, said that it isn't unusual for there to be tar balls on Cocoa Beach. Her father built the Cocoa Beach Pier."When we were kids running down the beach we would get tar stuck to our feet and our parents would have to get the tar off our feet," she said. "So this doesn't that it is an effect from what's going on the other side of the coast."Beth Morrone, a Cocoa Beach native, said that she isn't worried about the tar balls and believes they are from a recent shrimp boat that sunk.
"When we were kids running down the beach we would get tar stuck to our feet and our parents would have to get the tar off our feet," she said. "So this doesn't that it is an effect from what's going on the other side of the coast."
Beth Morrone, a Cocoa Beach native, said that she isn't worried about the tar balls and believes they are from a recent shrimp boat that sunk.
Then again, you wouldn't want people panicking... By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan
