Spill reinforces oil bad will for American Indians

[marmar]

via MichaelMoore.com:



May 18th, 2010 7:25 AM
Spill reinforces oil bad will for American Indians

By Cain Burdeau / Associated Press


POINTE-AU-CHIEN, La. — Like many American Indians on the bayou, Emary Billiot blames oil companies for ruining his ancestral marsh over the decades. Still, he's always been able to fish — but now even that is not a certainty.

An oil spill — 5 million gallons and counting — spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has closed bays and lakes in Louisiana's bountiful delta, including fishing grounds that feed the last American-Indian villages in three parishes. It is a bitter blow for the tribes of south Louisiana who charge that drilling has already destroyed their swamps and that oil and land companies illegally grabbed vast areas.

"Once the oil gets in the marshes, it's all over, that's where your shrimp spawn," said Billiot, a wiry fisherman with tough hands, his fingernails caked with bayou dirt.

"Then we're in trouble," he said in a heavy French-Indian accent.

In the month since an offshore drilling platform exploded, killing 11 workers, BP PLC has struggled to stop the leak from a blown-out underwater well. Over the weekend, engineers finally succeeded in using a stopper-and-tube combination to siphon some of the gushing oil into a tanker.

In Pointe-Au-Chien, 60-year-old Sydney Verdin felt a tingle of vengeful satisfaction at BP PLC's misfortune over the oil spill.

"I'm happy for the oil spill. Now the oil companies are paying for it the same way we've had to pay for it," said Verdin, disabled by a stroke, as he sat in his living room and watched his grandchildren play. ..........(more)

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[Angry Dragon]

1. I would like it if you are going to make a post

about the oil gusher you do not use the word "spill". It lessens the story and is not accurate at all. A spill is something you wipe up and then continue your day, your child spills a glass of milk, etc.

Go outside and take your hose off the faucet and turn it on full. Walk away and do not come back until at least a month later. When you come back what do you call it?? A flood, a big mess, or not enough words to describe it??

This is not a spill in the gulf, it is a big mess, it is a flood of oil with no end in site.

So please call it what it is.................

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Undersea Oil Gusher/Geyser

is appropriate. However, in all fairness, the title is straight off of MM's site.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Then maybe we need to figure out a way to impress

upon the press they need to change their words.......the more you hear something the harder it is to change it.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. I just commented on MM's site to petition them to change the name.

They did post it... now it is pending. It will be interesting to see if it gets tossed. I would hope they are somewhat less egregious in their censoring than the MSM.

[marmar]

5. Dude, I posted a story and that was the headline....Chill.

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