Broken Trust: Victims of Pipeline Spills Tell Their Stories – from Julie Dermansky
Evaluating pipeline safety is the business of engineers and scientists, but evaluating the human cost of transporting hazardous materials near people’s homes is best left to those who’ve experienced the fallout. Homeowners shared their experiences…
Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers University’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.
when you realize no one cares it will be allright…legal logic for matters they don’t want to deal with…
Slightly OT,but in South Dakota,Trans Canada can use eminent domain to take land for the pipeline and they have set rules for the construction workers about booze and also workers aren’t allowed to have guns. They may kill Keystone XL all by their lonesomes. Guffaw!
In such areas..make the front pages of everything..and the headline news. Go after the children..of the ‘biggies’..in each corp. bounding about..making money..upon the lives of all we..little, powerless people. We can be dead, or dying and it cannot be traced to them. You fireup..a large gaggle of the truly educated..and march over and sit on top of the pipelines..or whatever..is being shoved through..little town America. What might you carry? I suggest the pictures of each member of the poisen-cadres..children..or teens..and if they are not pictures..a written legend..explain that mr and mrs. so and so have 3 children..who have not been NEAR..any of the contaminated places..nor will they EVER..be allowed to..camp out..with the protestors. Lets see..how many energy corp.executives..want the evidence of their familys..being shown to be….AWAY/Protected..screened..from such crap. It can be done..and you must take the game..to THEIR court. Power is in..speaking truth..always truth..to those who think they are..worth more..as humans..then..we..the little people. Under-educated powerfuls..screw them!
Remember that huge solar disaster in Arizona? Or that enormous wind spill in South Dakota? Neither do I, because neither ever happened. Oil, gas, and coal are not the answer to our energy needs. It’s time to leave 19th century fuels behind.
Exactly!