Where is CNN now?
Today I walked through the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge so that I could access the beach there. “They” still have the road closed and the parking lot at the beach closed so I braved 90 degree heat at 8am this morning and walked through the interior of the refuge to see what was happening on the beach.
A month ago I was here and heavy machinery was removing truckloads of sand from the shoreline (shown in photo). Today, the first thing I noticed when approaching the beach from the interior of the refuge was the lack of clanging metal and loud engines. It was blissful to hear birds and waves.
Unfortunately, my peace was interrupted by endless tar balls in the water and on the sand and tidal pools filled with oily sludge. My first thought, upon finding these pools, was–Where is CNN now? BP laid off about 450 employees…out of 550 in Alabama, last week. I believe their promise was to leave the beaches cleaner than before the spill and that they were committed to being here as long as it takes. What happened to those promises?
As I walked along the beach I found myself thinking–Oh, these are only small tar balls, it’s just to be expected to have oily pools on the beach. WAIT A MINUTE! NO! We are being hypnotized into believing whatever they want us to believe. We should not let up in our push to have them held accountable until the beaches are really clean. It is unacceptable to abandon beaches when the work is not completed. But I’m one voice. We will only see them act if we join together as one BIG voice and demand they follow through with their promises. On this eve of the static kill attempt, let us remind them that it is not enough to simply stop the oil. That’s the FIRST step.
2 Replies to “Where is CNN now?”
Simone, when I read your comment about only being “only pme voice” it reminds me that we are only one voice and it is only through a united effort that we all become one voice with such magnitude that we cannot be ignored.
I know that there are lots of political petitions supporting all the various political points of view. If there were only someway we could petition the government to hold BP accountable and also to deliver to BP the “voice of US citizens”.
All I have ever done in the past is sign petitions that I believe in. I have no idea a petioioned is started and managed to delivery but I am willing to learn with some help about how to get a petition together, collect electronic signatures and deliver the results to the right people.
I truly believe that one voice does make a difference when it is joined with other voices for a common cause.
As I sat on my front porch today, I watched as all the miles of boom were being loaded on a barge..I wonder is it premature to take the boom away?? I’m concerned that at some point and time it may be needed. I do not mean to be negative, but I do have questions that I feel no one knows how to answer; i.e. where is the oil???? When we get a bad wind that pushes the bottom of the bay upwards, what will it bring ashore??? We have to keep on keeping on in our quest to stay after BP until everything is clean and pristine .