FEMA quiet no more, puts in bid to take over claims – Dispersants are known neurotoxins!
Could FEMA oversee BP claims process?
by Bigad Shaban / Eyewitness News
NEW ORLEANS – Whether you’re a business owner trying to collect losses through BP’s claim process, or an out of work fisherman hoping to earn a paycheck by deploying boom for BP, concerns continue over the oil company’s pace in dishing out its dollars. The federal government is pitching a possible solution, but it’s a 4-letter word that residents and leaders hoped they’d never hear again: FEMA.
As BP says it’s working to send out a second round of claims checks to impacted families, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano tells Eyewitness News she plans on dispatching a top FEMA official to Louisiana to make sure BP improves the process.
“To help make sure BP’s claims process is clear, understandable, the documents have been translated, for example, into different languages and that they are paying the claims in a timely manner,” Napolitano said Friday in an interview with WWL-TV.
But in the wake of FEMA’s highly criticized performance in paying out claims post Katrina, some wonder what will be different.
“FEMA is a classic government bureaucracy it moves very, very slowly,” said Clancy DuBos, Eyewitness News Political Analyst and Gambit political columnist. “Bringing in FEMA to speed things up with oil spill claims process just seems counter intuitive.”
Along the coast of Louisiana, the work of deploying boom is hard, the air is hot, and under the sun everything seems longer—the depths of the trucks packed with boom, and the time it takes to un pack it all onto nearby boats.
“As fast we load it, they’re putting it right out, coming right back in,” said Colby Creppel, a commercial fisherman now employed by BP to deploy boom across the Louisiana coast.
While the vessels are filled with boom, the fisherman are filled with worry. With much of the area’s waters still closed to shrimping and oystering, these men now work for BP trying to defend their cost. Their financial future rests in the hands of the oil company.
“The first time for the claims process….I had to wait in line for over 4 hours to try to get our money,” said Creppel.
Iris Terrebonne of Laffite just picked up her husband’s second BP check for working out in the gulf . But she says his first check has yet to clear.
“We don’t need time, we need relief right away,” said Terrebonne.
She’s worried about yet another layer of bureaucracy. FEMA’s help would be a hindrance, she says, to her and her children.
“Only now people from [Hurricane] Katrina are getting their money and this is ever since 2005,” said Terrebonne. ”I just think it’s ridiculous.”
Area leaders call FEMA’s involvement unbelievable
DHS Secretary Napolitano Visits GRAND ISLE
by Paul Murphy / Eyewitness News
GRAND ISLE, La. - If you want to enjoy the water on Grand Isle these days, you better bring your own pool.
The oil-soaked beaches are closed.
Pat Picard says her family bought some blow up pools and a “slip and slide” for the kids, to make the best of a bad situation at their camp on the beach.
“We’d be down there with out little tents set up, chairs, running the waves, doing wave boards and just being in the water,” she said.
Friday, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano boarded a Coast Guard cutter to see what’s being done to clean up the beach and keep oil out of sensitive inland marshes.
“The spill kept changing,” said Napolitano. “The oil kept moving and it’s still moving. Now it’s not one spill, it’s breaking up so that could be a complication. The key thing for us is to make sure every asset is brought to bear that can be.”
Senator David Vitter, R-Louisiana says some of the assets deployed so far are not working.
He and three Senate colleagues took a separate tour of the spill off of Grand Isle Friday afternoon.
“The impact on wild life is devastating and it’s growing day to day and we’re all very concerned about that,” said Vitter.
“I believe BP could be doing more faster to plug the leak,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland. “I think the Coast Guard needs to put performance standards around the clean up.”
Workers Who Come in Contact With Dispersant are Getting Sick
There is no logical way that anyone can deny the fact that corexit is a deadly chemical that has the very real possibility of causing massive evacuations in the Gulf. People are getting sick at an alarming rate and what did British Petroleum think would happen? This neurotoxin is banned in the United Kingdom!
Workers getting sick at an alarming rate
Kerry Kennedy – BP’s DISPERSANT S CAUSING PEOPLE TO BECOME ILL
Commercial boats pulled due to sickness
Dispersants literally fry brain
BP responds to sick clean up workers in court filing- BP using what amounts to chemical weapons
Worry over dispersant increases
Sick oil workers blame DISPERSANT
Wanna know, ‘whats killing the dolphins/sea turtles/birds’? It’s not just the oil, as when the oil is mixed with corexit, it becomes 10 times more poisonous! When a dolphin comes up for air, & surfaces onto an oilslick that was treated with corexit, what goes into the blowhole, also goes into the dolphins blood, as the corexit causes ‘severe hemorrhaging of blood vessels’,
& this will go right to the brain of the animal…
I’ve seen videos on Youtube of dolphins that were swimming in corexit/oil.
They all had this ‘unusual shaking’, that seemed like it was going into convulsions. The corexit, is also ‘highly caustic’ & even when diluted. So,
any people/animals/fish swimming through this stuff, might surely go blind,
in a matter of minutes. Some fisherman I know of, said that there were 100′s
of dead dolphins, along the beaches, when they were up there. They didn’t stay long, as B.P. & the Coast Guard kicked them out!And “NO Taking Pictures”!
It’s ‘just a matter of time’, until the oil slick reaches miami beach.Then, we can call all this an ‘act of anti-semetism’, & sick the A.D.L. on’em! I’m
SURE, that’ll fix it….
They just set up a new BP claims office in Marathon,Fl.this week. Haven’t heard anything about FEMA.The Mayor,BP Reps,The top Coast Guard official have scheduled another meeting on Monday.6/15…So far no oil in the Keys. We’ve had alot of tarballs,which have been sent to the lab in Conneticut. Tests came back negative from the Horizon. If their not lying to us…
I don’t believe Corexit be a natural product, and am fairly certain 2-butoxyethanol isn’t. Thus, not a toxin. If you consider “poison” too plebian, then use “toxicant”.