Despair and anger in wake of Gulf oil spill

from the Toronto Star:



Daniel Dale
Staff Reporter


BELLE CHASSE, LA.—The back windshield of the Dodge pickup speeding south on the quiet Plaquemines Parish highway from New Orleans bore two messages scrawled in white shoe polish.

At the top: “SAINTS #1!”

Below: “BP SUCKS.”

Long and narrow and largely covered by sensitive marshland, Plaquemines, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, is the southernmost parish in Louisiana. No place has been hit harder by the Deepwater Horizon spill. It is unlikely any place is angrier about it.

Here and elsewhere, however, the anger is impotent, the type that produces shoe polish graffiti but not much action. The problem of the spill can be solved only by the people who caused the problem. And so, in the fishing towns that dot Plaquemines and along the rest of the sweltering Gulf coast, almost all of the people whose lives may be forever changed by its impacts can only sit and stew. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/822663--despair-and-anger-in-wake-of-gulf-oil-spill

and it hasn't got here yet.

I can only imagine how those people feel.