Glass of ice cold water ... from Bhopal
Committee on Natural Resources
Greetings:
I watched the CSPAN coverage of the House Natural Resource Subcommittee on the Gulf Oil Spill. There were 3 panels. During one of the panels, POGO - Project on Government Oversight, and Pew gave statements and then answered questions. POGO did an awesome job. Pew dropped the ball.
I would like to know the name of the Congressman that asked Pew directly several times the same question. The Congressman said he was a physician and taught medical students. He asked the same question over and over and Pew could not answer it.
I feel like Hermione with her hand raised and no one will call on me.
The question was, "In the face of the job loss due to the 6-month moratorium on off-shore deep-water drilling, give me one fact as to why the moratorium should continue?"
One word - Bhopal.
I worked for 9 years for an apple orchard. There are no organic apples on the East Coast of the USA. We sprayed pesticides and herbicides and fungicides on the grass, trees, flowers and fruits. I made an accident once and killed all the blue jays for miles around. I was horrified.
Bhopal was an environmental catastrophe by an American company, Dow. Dow makes pesticides. Dow has not paid for the Bhopal disaster which happened 20+ years ago. What example are Americans setting that we can kill 15,000 people and create a toxic nightmare?
There are 1350+ Superfund sites though out America. The EPA does not have the funding to clean up these existing environmental disasters. There are 59 sites in Pennsylvania. Four may be leaking in to our groundwater.
And there are the dead zones off our coasts - N,S,E &W.
During the Congressional Hearing there were two men from the oil industry. The one with the small company from Louisiana was in some emotional pain. I sympathize with the oil-workers and the fishermen. I have been out of work for 6 years. American corporations have moved hundreds of thousands of jobs overseas.
BUT, the businessman from Louisiana, the shrimpers, and the oilmen can all get some money from BP. We can not EVER get back an extinct species or a wetland - EVER! If they try and tell you that nature heals, then give them some water from Bhopal.
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/methylis.html
Greetings:
I watched the CSPAN coverage of the House Natural Resource Subcommittee on the Gulf Oil Spill. There were 3 panels. During one of the panels, POGO - Project on Government Oversight, and Pew gave statements and then answered questions. POGO did an awesome job. Pew dropped the ball.
I would like to know the name of the Congressman that asked Pew directly several times the same question. The Congressman said he was a physician and taught medical students. He asked the same question over and over and Pew could not answer it.
I feel like Hermione with her hand raised and no one will call on me.
The question was, "In the face of the job loss due to the 6-month moratorium on off-shore deep-water drilling, give me one fact as to why the moratorium should continue?"
One word - Bhopal.
I worked for 9 years for an apple orchard. There are no organic apples on the East Coast of the USA. We sprayed pesticides and herbicides and fungicides on the grass, trees, flowers and fruits. I made an accident once and killed all the blue jays for miles around. I was horrified.
Bhopal was an environmental catastrophe by an American company, Dow. Dow makes pesticides. Dow has not paid for the Bhopal disaster which happened 20+ years ago. What example are Americans setting that we can kill 15,000 people and create a toxic nightmare?
There are 1350+ Superfund sites though out America. The EPA does not have the funding to clean up these existing environmental disasters. There are 59 sites in Pennsylvania. Four may be leaking in to our groundwater.
And there are the dead zones off our coasts - N,S,E &W.
During the Congressional Hearing there were two men from the oil industry. The one with the small company from Louisiana was in some emotional pain. I sympathize with the oil-workers and the fishermen. I have been out of work for 6 years. American corporations have moved hundreds of thousands of jobs overseas.
BUT, the businessman from Louisiana, the shrimpers, and the oilmen can all get some money from BP. We can not EVER get back an extinct species or a wetland - EVER! If they try and tell you that nature heals, then give them some water from Bhopal.
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/methylis.html
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