Category: BP Oil Spill

Adrastos, BP Oil Spill, Hurricane Katrina & Federal Flood

Anguish And Anger In St. Bernard Parish

Peter Adrastos Athas

There was a community meeting in St. Bernard Parish last evening, which is facing a crisis worse than Hurricane Katrina and the Federal Flood. That’s saying a lot since Da Parish took it in the neck in 2005. One fisherman summed up the situation by asking BP and the assembled officialdom:“Can you replace my heritage?” Here’s how WWL-TV’s Bigad Shaban covered the story last night: http://www.wwltv.com/v/?i=94794709 Continue reading Anguish And Anger In St. Bernard Parish

Athenae, BP Oil Spill, Do Something15 Comments

Blog for Birds Day 2: We Have Pelican!

In two days we hit more than $200 for the International Bird Rescue Center, which is taking care of injured, oil-covered wildlife on the Gulf coast.I had hoped we could do that by the end of theweek. Thank you to all who’ve contributed so far, and linked, and sent good thoughts the Center’s way. We can officially adopt a Pelican. While I’m thrilled, and I plan on asking them to make out the adoption papers to The Internet, I’d like to see if we can’t get to Pelican Partner level. That’s $500, or more than twice what we’ve already raised, … Continue reading Blog for Birds Day 2: We Have Pelican!

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Blogs for Birds: Something We Can Do for the Gulf

So we’re just screwed, basically. Yeah, I said we. This is happening to the entire country. There is no part of America that America can live without. Our fate, as our Gulf friends have reminded us before, is your fate. We are all of us safe, or none of us. Right now the answer seems to be none of us. And as usual, the institutions we once trusted to handle catastrophe are either paralyzed or incompetent and some of them are both. And as usual, a lot of us are trying to figure out what we can do to help. … Continue reading Blogs for Birds: Something We Can Do for the Gulf