In Our Weekly Town Meetings
We all know man’s greed has caused many problems in our world. And here in Orange Beach, Al at our weekly town meetings it is visible that man’s greed is killing us and all we love and have lived here for. I will never be able to understand, and I know in my life time I will never see this cleaned up.
The worst of it to me is not only seeing the dolphins wash to shore dead and the pelicans dying, but BP’s lies and our government turning this into a political gain. It has been as difficult as watching my parents die!
A man died this week as he lost his life here as a fishing guide. A wife and children have lost their loved one. And BP is trying to look like a good guy by paying for his funeral. How ridiculous!
BP Promises to Pay for Kruse’s Funeral – Gulf Shores Alabama
Friday, June 25th, 2010
GULF SHORES, Alabama – BP promised to pay for the funeral of charter boat captain Alan Kruse from Orange Beach, who committed suicide Tuesday. Alan Kruse shot and killed himself June 22, supposedly distraught over the ongoing coastal crisis. Kruse was known as “Rookie” to his friends, and took his own life aboard his boat at the Gulf Shores Marina in Fort Morgan. He was fifty-five years old. He left behind a wife and kids. He was known as a man who would give you the shirt off his back and had a wicked sense of humor.
And yes, as Mayor Tony Kennon says BP is not doing what they say to the media. We have claims here, friends are in a very bad way and BP week after week tell the people they lost their claim, fill again. Or if they process it a check might be received for 1/10 of the filed claim. I have heard BP say the check was lost in the mail, so you will have to re-file!
You can watch this commercial and come visit here and you will see a different story.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749628/20530635
In the paper today, If there is a face of hope in South Alabama these days, it is Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon. He is a Republican, but says the partisanship must go.
“Our lives are completely disrupted, and political games are being played on the right and the left,” he said. “It makes me mad.”
“If we’ve become a country that uses the pain of others for our own political gain, we have no future.”
As it rolls in:
Patsy,
This is making my stomach go into a knot. What are you going to do? I will visit that website you mentioned.
They are always trying to get permission to drill off Northern California but we have never let them. I think I heard that they are going to drill more in the Gulf. Oil should “spill” on the properties of the BP execs. These people obviously care nothing about the world they are handing down to their children and grandchildren.
I feel good that I don’t commute and drive a high mileage vehicle, but I’d rather not use gas at all if I could. Then there’s polyester, plastic, etc, etc…
Patsy
Our beach is now lined with people of about 10 in a row about every 100 to 200 feet.They go that far and turn around and walk back looking for tar balls and they are finding them but it is not helpin our wild life. And most of these guys dont even live here they come in on a bus every day and I have asked a few where they are from and its everywhere. They are even working at night. with flashlights.
But where is Green Peace and everyone thats keeps hollering global warming. Guess they dont think this is important or that the people that are here are important. They are not thinking of the flight patterns of the birds that winter here or come here to get enough food to make the trip to Mexico and South America.