[StBernard] planning commission to hear oil drilling case

[Westley Annis]

you are right about so many things and how so many of us feel.  What a
mess!!

Laurie


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>OK.. who will benefit on this decision?  I would like to know do the voters

>have any input of the decision of this oil permit?

>

>This parish is dying little by little with the refineries we have already,

>why on GOD'S earth would we want this?  Someone educate

>me?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought we wanted people to come back.

>This only scares residents from coming back.  It's getting harder each day

>to decide about staying.. why am I spending what little money I have left 

>to

>my name to support such idiotic ideas?  I wonder how many of the "higher

>ups" have 3 mortgages after the storm?  I do!  I AM THE PEON!  Please stop

>treading on me.. on the rest of us peons!  We are human and we can't take

>much more.

>

>I was interviewed by and outside organization yesterday doing a survey on

>housing and contamination of the aftermath of Katrina.  I

>asked...Contamination of what? Oil? Government?  That is the question of 

>the

>day!  I am afraid for my children.... Just to repeat something that was

>asked of me in the interview, the lady asked, "what do you think about a

>buffer around Murphy Oil?" and "do you think Murphy should buyout

>residents?"  I answered yes to both questions... why? because I drove 

>around

>the Oil spill area just the day before and it was a ghost town...there were

>only a few residents there sparingly on each street.  Why should a company

>making BILLIONS of dollars in profit not be responsible for the health and

>wellbeing of the citizens surrounding the plant?  THEY HAVE THE MONEY....

>FIX THE PROBLEM!  We have all heard one story after another of the people

>who have suffered some sort of cancer of those who lived on the street

>before the plant.

>

>Please, please tell me what needs to be done?  do we move or do we stay? 

>OUR

>PARISH LEADERS NEED TO KEEP THE CITIZENS OF ST. BERNARD INFORMED AND THINK

>OF OUR WELL BEING AND NOT THE REFINERIES.  Our ancestors built St. Bernard

>Parish with lots of sweat and tears.... all I have these days are tears.

>Who will step up and help us?  Who will stand by the lil guy?  Sorry if i

>wasted anyones time today but I had to let that out just to keep my own

>sanity.  Have a Blessed day and I pray for everyone here.

>

>jmd