Thursday, June 17, 2010
Dear PURRE Members :
As the BP oil disaster worsens, I feel it is part of PURRE’s mission to report information as we recieve it so you can avail yourself of educational opportunities on this urgent topic.
Although the PURRE Water Coalition recently decided to focus its mission locally, the Deepwater Horizon disaster has the potential to destroy not only all we have worked for but our entire way of life in every way.
Maybe “all politics is local” but gushing oil is not local; the Gulf of Mexico has no borders. PURRE may be able to help solve some of the problems of stormwater runoff and sewage overflow just to see oil and toxic dispersants flow in and do more damage than we could ever have imagined.
Who can bear to look at the pictures of the blackened marshes of Louisiana and the oil-soaked pelicans; how can we hear the desperate fishermen and women talk about their ruined futures and generations of family history likely coming to an end and not feel their pain?
While we in Southwest Florida are not yet – and may not – face that fate, education and awareness are the best defenses. If you know what you may be up against, you can prepare. And so here for your review is some information I found valuable.
The link below came across my desk in a regular email newsletter I recieve from Dr. Mercola, a nationally acclaimed health doctor who researches everything from the common cold to our most devastating medical issues.
I urge you to watch the video included with the article. It is a CBS News 60 Minutes report featuring one of the Deepwater Horizon survivors and comments from distinguished Professor of Engineering Dr. Robert Bea from the University of California, Berkley. Dr. Bea is not only our country’s leading expert on oil drilling disasters but was the lead investigator in the space shuttle disaster as well.
In Dr. Mercola’s commments in the body of the article you will find information from Sayer Ji, founder of Information to Inspire Change http://informationtoinspirechange.com/.
Click on the link below to learn more about this oil geyser – it cannot
be termed a “spill” – and how BP is (badly) handling the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. And be sure to watch the
60 Minutes video if you haven’t seen it. It is enlightening.
Your chairman,
Michael J. Valiquette
