Fishermen Hospitalized: BP Not Allowing Clean-Up Workers to Use Respirators

Why?

According to Clint Guidry, president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association:

…..If you would do your research, the same situation occurred with Exxon Valdez over twenty years ago. It is a question of liability. The minute BP declares that there is a respiratory danger on the situation is the day that they let the door open for liability suits down the line. If they could have gotten away with covering this up, like they did in Alaska Valdez situation, like Exxon, they would not have to pay a penny for any kind of health-related claims….(source; democracy now)

The oil and chemicals are not only beginning to make the clean-up workers sick, but it will have long term health consequences for the people of the Gulf.

The odor is so bad that Guidry reports:

….The closest I got was Venice, Louisiana, and you could smell it from Venice. At the time I was down there, they were actually spraying Corexit 9527A on the oil spill on top of the water and spraying all around—Venice sits on a peninsula, the Mississippi River, right at the—right above the Head of the Passes. And they were actually spraying this Corexit in the air all around where people were living, with kids and children, and continuously saying how safe it was, which is incorrect….(source)

Just like what occurred after the Sept, 11th attacks, brave workers are doing what they can to try to help in a disaster. These workers will likely have to suffer for years and years, just like those workers of 9/11 did. Some might even die from their clean-up efforts. But these workers are knowingly risking their health and maybe even their lives.

Guidry says, “I spoke to several individuals. It was a choice between not paying the bills and having food for their families and maybe taking a chance of getting sick.”

BP is a despicable company that has been engaged in all types of environmental and safety violations.

This company makes me sick.

But more importantly, BP is contributing to the sickness of the clean-up workers because it won’t allow them to wear respirators.

It is all about money for BP. Since it is all about money, BP should be made to pay until they are no longer in business. BP should no longer be Beyond Prosecution. They should be taken out for their illegal and unethical business practices .

Who knows, if BP is taken out then maybe some other Beyond Prosecution Corporations might get the message.