Telenovelas -President of the United States (USA) Barack Obama yesterday (30/04) ordered to investigate the incident at oil platform explosion "Deepwater Horizon" near Loouisiana state.
He said: "I have instructed the Minister of Home Affairs Ken Salazar to resolve the incident, and asked him to submit an investigation report within 30 days, while the proposal suggests that the technique is relevant and necessary to prevent similar incidents happening again. We've got teams of experts to the Gulf of Mexico to check out all the oil platform, in order to overcome the latent danger. "
Louisiana fishermen, who say they face the destruction caused by large oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, was rapidly losing patience, Friday (04/30/2010), in the face of something they say step slow effort to control the spill.
Local governments, state and federal as well as BP, based in London and mastered offshore wells, the source of an oil spill-engage in actions to accelerate efforts to protect the coast.
However, for many fishermen, the effort to achieve results that are too little and too late for the Gulf waters, which became "their land" and filled with shrimp, oysters, crab, and fish and to support the fishing industry with a value of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, the second in Alaska.
Jason Melerine (26) says, the root of the slow pace of oil spill control activities cause an imbalance between oil giants and small fishermen.
"They should not wait too long. They should've handled this very quickly," says Melerine as reported Reuters reporter, Matthew Bigg.
"But they (oil industry) has pocketed so much money so they do not have to worry about this," he said.
Immediately after the breeding ground contaminated shrimp, shrimp season, which has just begun, and will effectively end the cleaning efforts may take many years, said some fishermen.
"They (the government) should have a faster action and not wait for (oil) that are very close," said Christopher Creppel, 25th-year-old fisherman.
The state government on Thursday (29/04/2010) announced that the shrimp season started early due to the crisis, said Creppel, so he brought his boat the size of six feet at night and put up nets in the water and catch white shrimp worth 1100 U.S. dollars.
Creppel said he doubted that he would be a good chance it again. He added that most fishermen are still preparing ourselves for that season and had not even departed.
Fishermen face difficulties due to the rapid disappearance of their income in one part of south Louisiana, which is controlled by the oil and fishing industries.
Some fishermen also say they have to pay the mortgage loan to buy a boat that is worth tens of thousands of dollars and although the boat was insured, they are not income.
To compound a bad situation, sport fishing, which generate extra income for many commercial fishermen, are also likely to be exposed to hard knocks.
Cleanup efforts
Hundreds of fishermen coming to a school in Boothville, Louisiana, on Friday to attend a meeting called by the Plaquemines Parish to register as part of the cleanup effort.
They sat in the darkened school multipurpose room, while the officials give short courses on how to avoid the toxicity of oil during cleanup efforts.
Part of their involvement is for the benefit of others, but it also has another purpose now that fishing season has been discontinued, they need jobs.
BP also offers a contract to the fishermen to use their boats in the cleanup effort, said Vince Mitchell of "O'Brien's Response Management", which was contracted by BP. "Is this just a show to make it look nice BP, or whether they really want to hire us?" Mike Bruner (48) questioned.
"If we can not go out and catch shrimp, please at least give us jobs," said Ransey Pich (24), part of a community consisting of 44 families from Cambodia who catch fish in coastal Louisiana.
"Because you're the mistake, the oil spread," he added.
Fishermen say they are worried about the fact that most of the cleaning activities will be conducted by an outsider.
It happened after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when a gust powerful typhoon made public on a narrow peninsula stretching into the Gulf of Mexico deep water submerged a few feet, say the fishermen. "There are a lot of bitterness. Most of these people are second-generation fisherman, third, and fourth, and now they are witnessing the end of their industry," says Roger Halphen, a local teacher.
He said: "I have instructed the Minister of Home Affairs Ken Salazar to resolve the incident, and asked him to submit an investigation report within 30 days, while the proposal suggests that the technique is relevant and necessary to prevent similar incidents happening again. We've got teams of experts to the Gulf of Mexico to check out all the oil platform, in order to overcome the latent danger. "
Louisiana fishermen, who say they face the destruction caused by large oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, was rapidly losing patience, Friday (04/30/2010), in the face of something they say step slow effort to control the spill.
Local governments, state and federal as well as BP, based in London and mastered offshore wells, the source of an oil spill-engage in actions to accelerate efforts to protect the coast.
However, for many fishermen, the effort to achieve results that are too little and too late for the Gulf waters, which became "their land" and filled with shrimp, oysters, crab, and fish and to support the fishing industry with a value of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, the second in Alaska.
Jason Melerine (26) says, the root of the slow pace of oil spill control activities cause an imbalance between oil giants and small fishermen.
"They should not wait too long. They should've handled this very quickly," says Melerine as reported Reuters reporter, Matthew Bigg.
"But they (oil industry) has pocketed so much money so they do not have to worry about this," he said.
Immediately after the breeding ground contaminated shrimp, shrimp season, which has just begun, and will effectively end the cleaning efforts may take many years, said some fishermen.
"They (the government) should have a faster action and not wait for (oil) that are very close," said Christopher Creppel, 25th-year-old fisherman.
The state government on Thursday (29/04/2010) announced that the shrimp season started early due to the crisis, said Creppel, so he brought his boat the size of six feet at night and put up nets in the water and catch white shrimp worth 1100 U.S. dollars.
Creppel said he doubted that he would be a good chance it again. He added that most fishermen are still preparing ourselves for that season and had not even departed.
Fishermen face difficulties due to the rapid disappearance of their income in one part of south Louisiana, which is controlled by the oil and fishing industries.
Some fishermen also say they have to pay the mortgage loan to buy a boat that is worth tens of thousands of dollars and although the boat was insured, they are not income.
To compound a bad situation, sport fishing, which generate extra income for many commercial fishermen, are also likely to be exposed to hard knocks.
Cleanup efforts
Hundreds of fishermen coming to a school in Boothville, Louisiana, on Friday to attend a meeting called by the Plaquemines Parish to register as part of the cleanup effort.
They sat in the darkened school multipurpose room, while the officials give short courses on how to avoid the toxicity of oil during cleanup efforts.
Part of their involvement is for the benefit of others, but it also has another purpose now that fishing season has been discontinued, they need jobs.
BP also offers a contract to the fishermen to use their boats in the cleanup effort, said Vince Mitchell of "O'Brien's Response Management", which was contracted by BP. "Is this just a show to make it look nice BP, or whether they really want to hire us?" Mike Bruner (48) questioned.
"If we can not go out and catch shrimp, please at least give us jobs," said Ransey Pich (24), part of a community consisting of 44 families from Cambodia who catch fish in coastal Louisiana.
"Because you're the mistake, the oil spread," he added.
Fishermen say they are worried about the fact that most of the cleaning activities will be conducted by an outsider.
It happened after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when a gust powerful typhoon made public on a narrow peninsula stretching into the Gulf of Mexico deep water submerged a few feet, say the fishermen. "There are a lot of bitterness. Most of these people are second-generation fisherman, third, and fourth, and now they are witnessing the end of their industry," says Roger Halphen, a local teacher.
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