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What Local Government Can Do
Coastal Residents,
This is what your local government can do to protect your coast from the gulf oil spill. It’s not surprising to me to hear this out of Fairhope, AL. There are a lot of financial resources in that area, but mainly there are a lot of people who demand that their representatives actually represent them. YOU MUST DEMAND MORE FROM YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS NOW!! Write, call, email or get your butts into their offices. Harass them until they have taken every measure within their power to protect your coastline, all politics aside.
The time to sort out the financial details is LATER. The time to take action and protect our coast is NOW. Do not accept less!
FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Frustrated by BP PLC’s failure to do booming work it had promised, the City Council voted Friday morning to spend $625,575 to deploy two layers of boom in Mobile Bay from the Fairhope Yacht Club to the Grand Hotel Marriott Resort & Spa in Point Clear.
BP officials promised a month ago to deploy boom in the same areas at its own expense but has not done so, city officials said.
The money the city now will use for the project was part of the $25 million that BP gave to the state of Alabama last month. Fairhope received $650,000 when the state divided that money among city and county governments.
“Originally, I only got the $650,000 as a reserve, just in case we needed it for extra protection or cleanup, but now we’ve had to use it instead to do what BP promised to do,” Mayor Tim Kant said after Friday’s 9 a.m. emergency meeting.
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Thanks so much Fairhope!!!
**Mayor Kent….See these Creative & Educated Suggestions from an Expert…She posted the below on Facebook Group… “Governor Riley Save Mobile Bay”
Check it out…
“As a former USCG Merchant Marine and a family living on the Gulf Coast I am writing to ask and suggest an application that could help keep our coast line clean of the worst case impact of oil.
When I look at photos I do not see large numbers of boats booming and or skimming the water near the shore or in blue waters.
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“Many oil field supply boat companies had supply and utility boats sitting idle in Louisiana harbors. Why can’t someone call these companies and ask them to allow the state to use these boats and get the hose and skimmers onto the end of the hose to suck up the oil and have enough boats to form a flotilla where the vessels are staggered behind each other running together. Supply and utility vessels have cement and mud tanks that have the capacity to hold over 100,000 barrels of oil and water mix. Or these vessels could be staged near where shrimp boats could bring boomed oil to the supply or utility vessel for the boomed oil to be sucked up.
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http://www.megator.com/shore_skimmer.htm this skimmer could be used there are others too.
I would be willing to call SeaCor TideWater HOS Chouest and other boat companies to ask for the use of vessels if you say that I have your backing.
Cheers
Cecelia Redmond
P.S. I am a 1600 gt USCG Master and there are many merchant marine officers that would willingly operate these vessels.
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Flag.Stacey McCarthy Hooray-Creative and Efficient idea! What